[Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum] Special Exhibition Looking Back on the History of Tokyo Waterworks Through "Postcard" Culture Starting from the Meiji Era

The Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum (2-7-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) will hold its spring special exhibition, "The World of Waterworks Postcards: Tokyo's Waterworks Conveyed Through Postcards," from Saturday, April 25, to Sunday, May 24, 2026.

Looking Back on the History of Tokyo Waterworks from the State of Affairs Captured in Postcards

Since 1900 (Meiji 33), when the use of privately produced postcards was legalized, numerous postcards related to Tokyo's waterworks were created. They vary widely in type, including public relations materials by the Waterworks Bureau, commemorations of facility completions, introductions to "waterworks landmarks" such as the Hamura Intake Weir, Tamagawa Aqueduct, and Murayama/Yamaguchi Reservoirs, as well as landscape photographs of the water source forests.

Through various postcards produced from the late Meiji era through the Showa era, this exhibition will look back on the history of the development of Tokyo's waterworks.