Best Museums Spot List

A museum specializing in nihonga (Japanese paintings) with a collection of about 1,800 works consisting mainly of modern and contemporary Japanese paintings. It holds various special exhibitions as well.

In addition to the museum's various themed exhibitions and displays of Japanese modern and contemporary artworks, the location is also attractive due to the scenery that has made the place known as the museum with a superb view and rich natural environment.

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

Learn about sake brewing

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).

An art museum surrounded by dense forests, deep in the mountains

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.

The Railway Museum displays 37 real railway cars and lets you try out rail car operations yourself.

Experience the sensibility of an artist

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

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

The Tokyo Station Gallery is a museum located in an Important Cultural Property, Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building. Exhibitions and events in a variety of themes are held there.

A classical red brick building

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

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

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

Introducing life in Osaka during the Edo period, the museum makes it fun to learn about the history and culture of housing and living.

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.