Best Museums Spot List

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

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.

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

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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.

A secret underground cavern! Enjoy seeing historical Oya Stone and panoramic views.

This is a grand-scale building that stands on a corner of the land where the Sakura Castle used to be. The museum's exhibition is presented so that visitors can easily understand Japanese history.

Learn about the culture of Niigata

Discover Tohoku history and culture

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

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

This museum owns over 38,000 artifacts relating to the culture and history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.

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.

Museum to appreciate the works of painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa.

In addition to the museum's various themed exhibitions and displays of Japanese modern and contemporary artworks, the location is also attractive due to the scenery that has made the place known as the museum with a superb view and rich natural environment.

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.

This is Japan's only national art museum, where you can view various Western artworks, including the Matsukata collection, which mainly consists of French artworks.

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

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

An art museum surrounded by dense forests, deep in the mountains