Best Other Museums around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Philatelic Museum in Tokyo is one of the rare museums in Japan, and visitors can discover the fun and charm of postal stamps from all over the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Saitama Midori-no-mori Museum is a field museum that presents the satoyama (traditional agricultural) landscapes of Sayama-kyuryo Hills, such as wooded areas and swamps.

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

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