Best Museums Spot List

View real-life tachineputa all year

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

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.

The museum’s shop is a must-see, too

This is a museum where you can learn the aesthetics of the samurai spirit. You can experience being a samurai warrior wearing kabuto (a helmet) and yoroi (an armor) and take commemorative photos as well.

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.

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

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

Experience arts from Akita

A classical red brick building

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

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

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

Appreciate masterpieces of French Impressionism

A museum specializing in nihonga (Japanese paintings) with a collection of about 1,800 works consisting mainly of modern and contemporary Japanese paintings. It holds various special exhibitions as well.

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens