The Sumo Museum is wheelchair accessible, and can be an interesting place to pop into while visiting the Edo-Tokyo Museum next door – but, being very small, is not something that should be a destination on its own. The museum is located on the first floor of the Ryogoku Kokugikan Read more…
Though settlements have existed in the Tokyo area since 3000 BCE, things really started in the 12th century CE when Edo Shigenaga, the military governor of a large Kanto province, erected his castle in present day Tokyo, calling it Edojuku. Celebrating Tokyo’s long past, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is an excellent Read more…
This site and blog mainly focuses on travel and lodging but we also want to share interesting disability-related and cultural stories as well. So, meet Hisashi Fukushima, a prize-winning 46-year-old disabled man from Hidaka, Japan. Hisashi started drawing trains from the age of three. Due to his developmental disability, he Read more…