Best Museums Spot List

Step into an enchanting art museum where graceful goldfish dance amid a mesmerizing world of light, sound, and fragrance are woven together.

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

Hakone Garasunomori Museum, or the Venetian Glass Museum in Hakone, is the first museum of this kind in Japan. The glass exhibitions that change each season are worth seeing.

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

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

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

This art museum has the longest history in the Hakone area. On the premises, there is a tea ceremony room from which you can enjoy the landscape of each season.

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.

View real-life tachineputa all year

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 nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

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

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 Kyoto National Museum houses many artworks and cultural properties of Kyoto dating from the Heian period (794-1185) to the Edo period (1603-1868).

A museum where you can relax surrounded by rich greenery. It positions art as a ”sustenance of mental health.”

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 is an admission-free art gallery opened in the Ginza district by Pola Group, which is expanding its cosmetics business, to make this facility the information-dissemination center for art and culture.

This art museum houses many pieces of artwork, mainly paintings, woodblock prints, sculptures, and others that were created by the hands of artists who have a tie with Kawagoe.