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.

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

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

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

Artworks await to gratify your spirit

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.

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

Walk around the extensive grounds covering 70,000 square meters while enjoying the spectacular sculptures surrounded by magnificent greenery.

A technology gallery where you can experience Japanese high technology by looking, touching and operating. A guided tour is available, as well.

The Kyoto National Museum houses many artworks and cultural properties of Kyoto dating from the Heian period (794-1185) to the Edo period (1603-1868).

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

Learn about sake brewing

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.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

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.

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

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

A building that is in itself a work of art. An art center where you can enjoy a variety of art exhibitions.

Special local products such as sake, rice, and koji (aspergillus oryzae) are lined up

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.