Best Museums Spot List

Experience the sensibility of an artist

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

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 hall that holds rakugo (comic storytelling) performances throughout the year. It also holds a variety of other performances, such as manzai (a two-man comedy act), that are worth seeing.

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.

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

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

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

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

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

A museum located on the 53rd floor of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower connected directly to Roppongi Station. You can enjoy a panoramic view of Tokyo from the observation deck on the 52nd floor.

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.

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

This is the world's first museum dedicated to the classic novella ”The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It displays documentation and memorabilia from the author Saint-Exupéry, and visitors can fully enjoy the world of ”The Little Prince.”

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.

A classical red brick building

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints