Best Museums around Tokyo Spot List

Step into an enchanting art museum where graceful goldfish dance amid a mesmerizing world of light, sound, and fragrance are woven together.

It is home to art and artifacts from across Asia, including the world's largest and finest Japanese collection.

A museum full of interesting materials

This is a hands-on museum in which you can learn by looking at, touching, and operating exhibits. You can enjoy learning the history and the latest technology of subway systems.

A hall that holds rakugo (comic storytelling) performances throughout the year. It also holds a variety of other performances, such as manzai (a two-man comedy act), that are worth seeing.

Sannomaru Shozokan is a public art gallery exhibiting works such as paintings, calligraphy and crafts handed down to the Imperial Family.

At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.

A thought-provoking museum about the history, culture and social role of currency.

A museum that displays precious references to sumo wrestling — a form of traditional culture dating to the era of Japanese myths.

A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.

A building that is in itself a work of art. An art center where you can enjoy a variety of art exhibitions.

Museum to appreciate the works of painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa.

You can experience the world of Mitsuo Aida, a poet and calligrapher who emphasized the preciousness of life with his own phrases and unique styles of calligraphy.

This is Japan's only national art museum, where you can view various Western artworks, including the Matsukata collection, which mainly consists of French artworks.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

Japan's first national art museum located next to the Imperial palace, and it houses more than 12,500 artworks.

This memorial museum used to be the art studio and residence of Taro Okamoto, who was a representative artist of Japan. His passion and energy still fill the museum.

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.

A museum introducing Edo hanabi (fireworks) and brimming with the atmosphere of the era.

This museum owns over 38,000 artifacts relating to the culture and history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.