The exhibition on the first floor is set in the Taisho period (1912-1926). The displays reproduces good old days of Tokyo’s shitamachi townscape. Inside the shop complex facing the street and the tenement house between narrow alleys are coppersmith’s workshop and a traditional sweets shop, as well as a communal well. Each room contains ethnographical objects owners of the house may have used.

Dagashiya , the classical Japanese sweets shop was commonly seen throughout Taito town until the recent past. The shop sells not only sweets but also small toys like spinning tops, kites, and marbles. These shops served as children’s social spot and they were also was a place they learned various life skills outside of classrooms.