Best Museums Spot List

View real-life tachineputa all year

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

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

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

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

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.

The Yokohama Archives of History is situated near Kaiko Plaza Park, where the Kanagawa Convention or the US-Japan Peace and Amity Treaty was signed. It is a house of archives where you can learn about the history of Yokohama City.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

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

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

An exact reproduction of the Meiji-Era Shimbashi Station, the first railway terminal in Japan.

A museum located in Ueno Park. Visitors can enjoy a variety of artworks including ones designated as Important Cultural Properties.

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

Understand and experience a disaster, while learning about minimizing risk and damage from natural disasters

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

A classical red brick building

Works related to the Harima area are on display here. The watchful figure of Himeji Castle is beautiful

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.