Best Museums Spot List

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

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.

Appreciate masterpieces of French Impressionism

This is an art museum that houses and exhibits modern and contemporary Japanese art. It hosts special exhibitions on a wide range of themes.

Sannomaru Shozokan is a public art gallery exhibiting works such as paintings, calligraphy and crafts handed down to the Imperial Family.

A unique art museum displaying future works and commanding a magnificent view of Lake Ashino-ko in Hakone.

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

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.

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

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

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

It succeeds in recreating the model of railway trains down to the last detail by utilizing authentic railway technology. The museum of Nobutaro Hara's model railway and his collection.

Observe how sturdy silk fabrics are produced

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

The Yokohama Archives of History is situated near Kaiko Plaza Park, where the Kanagawa Convention or the US-Japan Peace and Amity Treaty was signed. It is a house of archives where you can learn about the history of Yokohama City.

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

It is a toy museum designed to attract people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. Visitors can see, touch, play, and learn while having fun.

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.

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

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.