Best Museums Spot List

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

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

Learn about aviation science

A museum located on the 53rd floor of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower connected directly to Roppongi Station. You can enjoy a panoramic view of Tokyo from the observation deck on the 52nd floor.

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.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

An open-air museum where historical buildings having high cultural value are restored and displayed on a large site.

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 leading domestic collection of modern art prints

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

The museum exhibits precious fossils of prehistoric life and a large diorama replicated the forests of Saitama. It is a museum where you can learn the 300 million years of the natural history of the prefecture.

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.

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

A classical red brick building

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

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

It has over 5,000 pieces of Japanese and Oriental antique art. The building in the shinden-zukuri aristocratic architectural style (developed between the late 7th to early 11th century) and the Japanese garden are worthy of a viewing.

A museum located in Ueno Park. Visitors can enjoy a variety of artworks including ones designated as Important Cultural Properties.

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

Artworks await to gratify your spirit