Generally speaking, local history museums in Tokyo’s special wards are not considered must-see attractions, either for tourists or locals. That doesn’t mean that they’re not worth visiting, of course, and many of them are either free or cheap to enter, if small in scale compared to the national museums in Ueno Park. Minato City’s local history museum, on the other hand, is a gem worth seeing even just from the outside. Housed in a grand, castle-like seven-story estate built in Uchida-Gothic style, it served as the headquarters of the Institute…
