Best Museums Spot List

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

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

Appreciate masterpieces of French Impressionism

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

Japan's first national art museum located next to the Imperial palace, and it houses more than 12,500 artworks.

A place to appreciate masterful works of glass

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

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.

This art museum has the longest history in the Hakone area. On the premises, there is a tea ceremony room from which you can enjoy the landscape of each season.

Become familiar with the ocean, ships, science, and technology

Experience the sensibility of an artist

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.

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.

Walk around the extensive grounds covering 70,000 square meters while enjoying the spectacular sculptures surrounded by magnificent greenery.

The museum’s shop is a must-see, too

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

Observe how sturdy silk fabrics are produced

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

This is Japan's only national art museum, where you can view various Western artworks, including the Matsukata collection, which mainly consists of French artworks.

Directly connected to Mitsukoshimae Station, the Mitsui Memorial Museum features masterpieces of Japanese and Eastern art acquired by members of the Mitsui family over 350 years. There is no permanent exhibition.