Best Museums Spot List

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.

A museum that displays precious references to sumo wrestling — a form of traditional culture dating to the era of Japanese myths.

View real-life tachineputa all year

A butler-guided tour

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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.

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

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

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

Experience the charm of The Tale of Genji using all five senses

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.

Enjoy the world of science as if you are playing a game

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

The Tokyo Station Gallery is a museum located in an Important Cultural Property, Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building. Exhibitions and events in a variety of themes are held there.

The museum’s shop is a must-see, too

A place to appreciate masterful works of glass

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.

Learn about the culture of Niigata