Best Museums Spot List

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

From the works of masters to rising artists, get in touch with various works by Aomori artists

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

An open-air museum where historical buildings having high cultural value are restored and displayed on a large site.

Learn about sake brewing

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.

The National Film Center is the only national institution devoted to cinematography. It keeps movie films as well as many valuable materials related to movies. They are shown on the screens or displayed in the exhibition hall.

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

A museum where visitors can see the various works and crafts created by the people of the old capital of Nara.

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

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.

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

This museum offers both beauty and healing surrounded by the nature of Hakone. A giant mural of wind god Fujin and thunder god Raijin can be appreciated while soaking your feet in an ashi-yu footbath.

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

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