Best Museums Spot List

View real-life tachineputa all year

A butler-guided tour

Japan's first national art museum located next to the Imperial palace, and it houses more than 12,500 artworks.

Feel the history of Kitakami at the outdoor museum

The Railway Museum displays 37 real railway cars and lets you try out rail car operations yourself.

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

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

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.

Experience the sensibility of an artist

Immerse yourself in the deep and mystical world of Dali

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

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.

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

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

A museum inside the building of Tokyo University of the Arts, the best out of all the art universities in Japan. It stores approximately 29,000 items of mainly Japanese modern arts.

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.

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

A museum introducing Edo hanabi (fireworks) and brimming with the atmosphere of the era.

This museum offers both beauty and healing surrounded by the nature of Hakone. A giant mural of wind god Fujin and thunder god Raijin can be appreciated while soaking your feet in an ashi-yu footbath.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways