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15-520: The Ryōunkaku quickly became a landmark and symbol of Asakusa after its opening in 1890. It was a major leisure complex for visitors from all over Tokyo. When the 1894 Tokyo earthquake weakened the structure, it was reinforced with steel girders. However on September 1, 1923, the Great Kanto earthquake destroyed the upper floors and damaged the whole tower so severely, that it had to be demolished with explosives on September 23. A supermarket stands on

30-533: A steam locomotive are also on display outside. Opened in 1871, it has had several names, including Ministry of Education Museum, Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Science Museum, the National Science Museum of Japan, and the National Museum of Nature and Science as of 2007. It was renovated in the 1990s and 2000s, and offers a wide variety of natural history exhibitions and interactive scientific experiences. It

45-553: A year of operation. The Ryōunkaku's second through seventh floors held 46 stores selling goods from around the world. A lounge was on the eighth floor, and art exhibitions were held on the ninth floor. The tenth through twelfth floors were observation decks from which all of Tokyo could be seen, and on clear days, Mount Fuji . Many artistic and cultural events were held in the Ryōunkaku, including Western music concerts, geisha photograph exhibitions, and beauty contests. A well-known store

60-473: Is 3 floors above ground and 3 floors below ground. The first phase of construction was completed in 1998. The permanent exhibition will be open to the public from April 24, the following year. Grand opening on November 2, 2004 after the completion of the second phase of construction. The renovation work of the north exhibition hall started in September 2014, and the construction was completed the following year, and

75-608: The Mikasa City Museum in Mikasa, Hokkaido , Japan, on 4 July 2021, and remained there until 20 September. It has since been hosted by several other museums across Japan, including the National Museum of Nature and Science, which hosted it from 15 March to 19 June 2022. A virtual tour of the exhibit as it appeared in the museum was also made available online. 5,004,294 items (as of FY2022). Of these, approximately 14,000 are on permanent display. Others are stored and researched in

90-511: The Mita area of downtown Tokyo. She also commented on an aftershock which occurred at 22:00 that night. The earthquake is also mentioned by author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in his autobiographical work , Yosho-jidai , in which he described how his family's house collapsed during the earthquake, a traumatic event to which he attributed his lifelong phobia of earthquakes. By 1894, Tokyo and Yokohama had numerous foreign residents, many of whom commented on

105-646: The Tsukuba area. About 100,000 items are newly collected each year. The following items in the collection are designated as national Important Cultural Properties . The theme of the Ueno Main Building is "Aiming for the coexistence of humankind and nature," and consists of two exhibition halls, the Japan Pavilion and the Earth Pavilion. The theme is "History of Earth Life and Mankind". The exhibition area

120-716: The cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama . The earthquake's epicenter was in Tokyo Bay , with a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale . The depth of the 1894 earthquake has not been determined, but it is thought to have occurred within the subducting Pacific plate under the Kantō region . The death toll was 31 killed and 157 injured. The earthquake was mentioned by author Ichiyō Higuchi in her work Mizu-no-ue no nikki , in which she described damage to buildings in Yotsuya , and soil liquefaction in

135-477: The earthquake in their writings and diaries. The National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo has a collection of twenty two photographs of the earthquake in the form of albumen papers, lantern slides and dry plates . A considerable number of photographs were taken just after the event for the use at the former Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee in its official reports of the 1894 earthquake, but almost all of

150-649: The exhibition hall, it has facilities such as a dome for astronomical observation and an auditorium. It is designed to withstand earthquakes of the Great Kanto Earthquake class, and it is said that there is no problem in light of the current Building Standards Act standards. In 2021, the museum organized the Pokémon Fossil Museum , a travelling exhibition based on the Pokémon franchise, in collaboration with The Pokémon Company . The exhibition opened at

165-421: The former grounds of the Ryōunkaku, with a historic marker placed near its entrance. In 2018, a nearby construction project unearthed the bricks of the tower's original foundation. Once the industrial building was completed, a reproduction of an 1890 illustration of the Ryōunkaku by ukiyo-e painter Utagawa Kunimasa IV was added to its outside wall. The Ryōunkaku was designed by Scottish engineer W. K. Burton in

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180-489: The late 1880s, not long after his arrival in Japan. It was a 68.58-metre (225.0 ft) tall tower of red bricks over a wood frame, in renaissance revival style. All twelve floors had electric lighting. The two electric elevators were designed by Ichisuke Fujioka , a founder of Toshiba . They served the first through eighth floors, and could carry up to 10 persons each. However, for safety reasons, they were shut down after only half

195-514: The original plates have been lost. National Science Museum of Japan The National Museum of Nature and Science ( 国立科学博物館 , Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan ) is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo . The museum has exhibitions on pre- Meiji science in Japan . It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro . A life-size blue whale model and

210-660: Was completed as the main building of the Tokyo Science Museum in September 1931 as part of the reconstruction project after the Great Kanto Earthquake in Neo-Renaissance style. Designed by Kenzo Akitani, an engineer of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Building Division. The building is the most visited museum in Japan, and looks like an airplane when viewed from above. In addition to

225-884: Was the place where wood-block prints were made for Sugoroku , a popular Japanese board game. As the Ryōunkaku's fame spread, it appeared in the works of contemporary authors such as Tanizaki Junichiro , Ishikawa Takuboku , Kitahara Hakushu and Kaneko Mitsuharu . The edifice's opening was commemorated in Ogawa Kazumasa 's most famous work, Types of Japan, Celebrated Geysha of Tokyo in Collotype and From Photographic Negatives Taken by Him , published around 1892. [REDACTED] Media related to Ryōunkaku at Wikimedia Commons 1894 Tokyo earthquake The 1894 Tokyo earthquake ( 明治東京地震 , Meiji-Tokyo jishin ) occurred in Tokyo , Japan at 14:04 PM on June 20. It affected downtown Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa prefecture , especially

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