Best Museums Spot List

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.

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.

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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

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

Immerse yourself in the deep and mystical world of Dali

Understand and experience a disaster, while learning about minimizing risk and damage from natural disasters

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 Philatelic Museum in Tokyo is one of the rare museums in Japan, and visitors can discover the fun and charm of postal stamps from all over the world.

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 museum where visitors can see the various works and crafts created by the people of the old capital of Nara.

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

A classical red brick building

At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.

Directly connected to Mitsukoshimae Station, the Mitsui Memorial Museum features masterpieces of Japanese and Eastern art acquired by members of the Mitsui family over 350 years. There is no permanent exhibition.

An exact reproduction of the Meiji-Era Shimbashi Station, the first railway terminal in Japan.

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens