Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
Faithfully rebuilt Queen Anne-style red-brick office block turned museum of nineteenth-century European art.
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This guide to Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo starts with a small carved face on the second-floor walkway, a goddess named Okame hung there in 1894 by Mitsubishi founder Yataro Iwasaki to keep his clerks cheerful. It traces the original building, designed by the Englishman Josiah Conder as Tokyo's first taste of a European business district, through its 1968 demolition and Mitsubishi Estate's later decision to rebuild it brick by brick from the original Meiji-era plans. Look for salvaged staircase handrails among the reconstruction as you walk through.
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