Best Museums Spot List

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.

Immerse yourself in the world of this photographer who loved the Yamato path

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

A place connected to Matsuo Basho. A garden with flowers and trees associated with his haiku and Shiseki Tembo Teien with a waterside view are the highlights.

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

The second-oldest national museum in Japan, located in Nara Park. It boasts the nation's greatest collection of Buddhist art.

Learn about aviation science

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

Immerse yourself in the deep and mystical world of Dali

A museum where visitors can see the various works and crafts created by the people of the old capital of Nara.

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.

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.

A museum where you can relax surrounded by rich greenery. It positions art as a ”sustenance of mental health.”

This memorial museum used to be the art studio and residence of Taro Okamoto, who was a representative artist of Japan. His passion and energy still fill the museum.

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

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.

A classical red brick building

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.