Best Museums Spot List

Discover Tohoku history and culture

Learn about sake brewing

Learn about the culture of Niigata

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

The entire space is a work of art! An art museum designed by painter Insho Domoto

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.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

The museum houses 900 drums, including Japanese drums and others from all over the world. Visitors can touch and play the drums.

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 museum’s shop is a must-see, too

It is Japan's only national nature and science museum, which presents the history of nature and science; it is located in Tokyo. Its theater, in which a movie can be displayed in a panoramic 360 degrees, is worth seeing.

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

The Meguro Parasitological Museum exhibits 300 specimens of tapeworms and related material from inside and outside Japan. This is a research facility and museum devoted to parasites.

Amuse Museum is an art complex where a museum of the textile culture and ukiyoe (paintings of everyday life in the Edo period 1603 – 1868), a select shop of Japanese-style products, and an event hall are combined.

Located at the birthplace of sumo, this museum offers a chance to explore the history of the sport. It features a full-size sumo ring and a collection of about 12,000 sumo-related artifacts.

This museum exhibits academic specimens and research materials owned by the University of Tokyo. It is a museum where brings an academic heritage into creation of a new culture and design.

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

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

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

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