Best Museums around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

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

Walk around the extensive grounds covering 70,000 square meters while enjoying the spectacular sculptures surrounded by magnificent greenery.

The Science Museum allows people of all ages to see, touch, and experience science. A variety of workshops held every day are also appealing.

It is a toy museum designed to attract people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. Visitors can see, touch, play, and learn while having fun.

The museum houses 900 drums, including Japanese drums and others from all over the world. Visitors can touch and play the drums.

The Meguro Parasitological Museum exhibits 300 specimens of tapeworms and related material from inside and outside Japan. This is a research facility and museum devoted to parasites.

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.

In addition to the museum's various themed exhibitions and displays of Japanese modern and contemporary artworks, the location is also attractive due to the scenery that has made the place known as the museum with a superb view and rich natural environment.

This art museum has the longest history in the Hakone area. On the premises, there is a tea ceremony room from which you can enjoy the landscape of each season.

This is a grand-scale building that stands on a corner of the land where the Sakura Castle used to be. The museum's exhibition is presented so that visitors can easily understand Japanese history.

A unique hexagon-shaped art museum that houses some 2,000 ceramics, Japanese lacquerwares, and tea kettles.

It is an art museum in Marunouchi that holds Japanese contemporary art oriented exhibitions.

A museum where you can relax surrounded by rich greenery. It positions art as a ”sustenance of mental health.”

An exact reproduction of the Meiji-Era Shimbashi Station, the first railway terminal in Japan.

It has over 5,000 pieces of Japanese and Oriental antique art. The building in the shinden-zukuri aristocratic architectural style (developed between the late 7th to early 11th century) and the Japanese garden are worthy of a viewing.

A museum specializing in nihonga (Japanese paintings) with a collection of about 1,800 works consisting mainly of modern and contemporary Japanese paintings. It holds various special exhibitions as well.

A technology gallery where you can experience Japanese high technology by looking, touching and operating. A guided tour is available, as well.

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 an art museum that houses and exhibits modern and contemporary Japanese art. It hosts special exhibitions on a wide range of themes.

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