Best Museums Spot List

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.

Experience arts from Akita

The entire space is a work of art! An art museum designed by painter Insho Domoto

A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

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

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

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

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

Immerse yourself in the world of this photographer who loved the Yamato path

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.

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.

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

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.

Saitama Midori-no-mori Museum is a field museum that presents the satoyama (traditional agricultural) landscapes of Sayama-kyuryo Hills, such as wooded areas and swamps.

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

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.

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).

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture