Best Other Museums around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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.

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

Amuse Museum is an art complex where a museum of the textile culture and ukiyoe (paintings of everyday life in the Edo period 1603 – 1868), a select shop of Japanese-style products, and an event hall are combined.

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

This museum exhibits academic specimens and research materials owned by the University of Tokyo. It is a museum where brings an academic heritage into creation of a new culture and design.

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 facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

The Railway Museum displays 37 real railway cars and lets you try out rail car operations yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

This is a museum where you can learn the aesthetics of the samurai spirit. You can experience being a samurai warrior wearing kabuto (a helmet) and yoroi (an armor) and take commemorative photos as well.

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

The museum exhibits precious fossils of prehistoric life and a large diorama replicated the forests of Saitama. It is a museum where you can learn the 300 million years of the natural history of the prefecture.

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.

It succeeds in recreating the model of railway trains down to the last detail by utilizing authentic railway technology. The museum of Nobutaro Hara's model railway and his collection.