Best Other Museums around Tokyo and Surroundings Spot List

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

An art center open to all where you can enjoy exhibitions, workshops, and a variety of other events.

It is a historical museum where you can learn about the Chiba clan, who made the foundation and historical contribution to Chiba City. From the observation deck, you can see a magnificent view of Chiba City.

Museum of Yebisu Beer will teach you the history and the way to enjoy Yebisu beer at the birthplace of Yebisu beer.

This is an art gallery established in 1926, located in the Meiji Jingu Gaien Park. About 80 masterpieces of Japanese and Western paintings are displayed in chronological order.

Nippon Camera Hakubutsu-kan or the JCII Camera Museum is a museum operated by the Japan Camera Industry Institute, and you can have fun learning and familiarizing yourself with cameras by looking at and touching cameras. There are more than 300 cameras on display.

The museum has the ancient Orient as its theme. Visitors can learn about the hunting and gathering life of 5,000 years ago as well as the invention of writing.

This is a museum built on the site where the Kawagoe Castle used to stand. Through various exhibitions, the museum explains how the people in the castle town lived.

Daimyo Tokei Hakubutsu-kan, or Daimyo Clock Museum, is the museum of the Edo period's art and craftwork, daimyo clocks (Japanese clocks), and is located in the popular Yanaka area in the shitamachi (the geographically lower side) of Tokyo.

It is a museum where the Japanese maritime history can be learned from videos and valuable displays. The NYK Maritime Museum widely introduces the history of marine vessels along with the history of Nippon Yusen as a company. (NYK stands for Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a shipping company.)

This is a hands-on train museum that is enjoyable for both adults and children. An operation simulator that uses an actual operator's seat is popular.

A museum located on the fourth floor of Panasonic Tokyo Shiodome Building. 230 pieces by Georges Rouault, a representative artist of the 20th century, are shown at this museum.

The Sumo Photography Museum is placed in the parking area of a photo studio. There are many items on display, including photographs of successive generations of great sumo wrestlers, references, and sumo wrestlers' ornamental aprons.

A history museum featuring precious cultural artifacts from the Kamakura Era.

Japan's only sex museum, with full of humor.