Best Museums Spot List

The museum’s shop is a must-see, too

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

Built on the Naniwanomiya Site, the museum allows visitors to learn about the history of Osaka from ancient times to the present.

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

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.

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.

The Suntory Museum of Art is directly connected with Roppongi Station and inside Tokyo Midtown — a chic integrated complex where you can enjoy shopping.

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

Wrap your mind around space and energy

A human rights museum that confronts universal human issues

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.

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

The largest art museum in all of western Japan!

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

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 is a museum where you can learn the aesthetics of the samurai spirit. You can experience being a samurai warrior wearing kabuto (a helmet) and yoroi (an armor) and take commemorative photos as well.

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.

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

Discover Tohoku history and culture