Best Museums Spot List

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

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

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.

View real-life tachineputa all year

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

The building and the interior itself are the display! Experience Kyoto's elegance

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

A metropolitan museum where you can experience art up close

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 paradise of demons

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

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.

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.

Experience the sensibility of an artist

Experience arts from Akita

The Science Museum allows people of all ages to see, touch, and experience science. A variety of workshops held every day are also appealing.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

This museum owns over 38,000 artifacts relating to the culture and history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.

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