Best Museums Spot List

The building and the interior itself are the display! Experience Kyoto's elegance

Learn about sake brewing

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

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.

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.

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

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

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

A massive collection of manga from all over the world, from the famous to rare finds

A unique hexagon-shaped art museum that houses some 2,000 ceramics, Japanese lacquerwares, and tea kettles.

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.

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

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 unique art museum displaying future works and commanding a magnificent view of Lake Ashino-ko in Hakone.

This is an admission-free art gallery opened in the Ginza district by Pola Group, which is expanding its cosmetics business, to make this facility the information-dissemination center for art and culture.

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

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.

It is an art museum in Marunouchi that holds Japanese contemporary art oriented exhibitions.