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

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

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

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

The second-oldest national museum in Japan, located in Nara Park. It boasts the nation's greatest collection of Buddhist art.

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

Enjoy the world of science as if you are playing a game

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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

This memorial museum used to be the art studio and residence of Taro Okamoto, who was a representative artist of Japan. His passion and energy still fill the museum.

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

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is in Ueno Park. Special exhibitions of domestic and foreign famous paintings, variety of planned exhibitions, and exhibitions of works by the general public are held there.

Experience the charm of The Tale of Genji using all five senses

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see