Best Museums Spot List

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

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.

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

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.

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

Lalique Museum, Hakone exhibits about 230 pieces of French artist, René Lalique (1860-1945) who created precious jewelry in Art Nouveau style, and beautiful objects in glass during Art Deco period.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

It has over 5,000 pieces of Japanese and Oriental antique art. The building in the shinden-zukuri aristocratic architectural style (developed between the late 7th to early 11th century) and the Japanese garden are worthy of a viewing.

Discover Tohoku history and culture

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Learn about the culture of Niigata

Museum to appreciate the works of painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa.

Experience the sensibility of an artist

A massive collection of manga from all over the world, from the famous to rare finds

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

Special local products such as sake, rice, and koji (aspergillus oryzae) are lined up

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

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.