Best Museums Spot List

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.

A museum inside the building of Tokyo University of the Arts, the best out of all the art universities in Japan. It stores approximately 29,000 items of mainly Japanese modern arts.

Discover Tohoku history and culture

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

Feel the history of Kitakami at the outdoor museum

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

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.

From crafts, paintings, and more: this museum has many famous works on display

A classical red brick building

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

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

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.

Experience arts from Akita

Saitama Midori-no-mori Museum is a field museum that presents the satoyama (traditional agricultural) landscapes of Sayama-kyuryo Hills, such as wooded areas and swamps.

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

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

A rare, underground art museum

View real-life tachineputa all year