江戸東京博物館 Edo-Tokyo Museum

Edo is the old name for Tokyo, before Tokyo was the capital, which it became in 1868-ish when the government moved from Kyoto (the emperor finally moved too in 1869). Edo was Edo longer than Tokyo has been Tokyo, so a museum on the history of Tokyo pretty much has to have "Edo" in the name. This museum was built in the days before Japan's economy went to heck, which is apparent in the exterior. Its overwrought architecture is indicative of the hubris of the times and looks more like some sci-fi spaceship than an homage to Japanese history. I failed to take a picture of the exterior, but here's one from Wikimedia:

From Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musee_edo.jpg

Once you're inside, however, an homage it is. They had a lot of space to recreate the Edo/Tokyo of various periods. Here's a recreation of the residence of one of the daimyos of the early Tokugawa Period, when shoguns started living in Edo. This guy spent more on his digs than either the shogun or the emperor. This scale model was based off of existing drawings, paintings, and diagrams. But, as luck would have it when you store up all your treasures in possessions, this place burned from a lightening strike less than a hundred years after it was built. It was never rebuilt because thereafter nobody had the money to build anything that gorgeous.

 Here's Tyler waiting in vain to be carried away in a palanquin.