Best Museums Spot List

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

Experience the sensibility of an artist

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

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

Japan's first national art museum located next to the Imperial palace, and it houses more than 12,500 artworks.

Located at the birthplace of sumo, this museum offers a chance to explore the history of the sport. It features a full-size sumo ring and a collection of about 12,000 sumo-related artifacts.

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

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

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

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

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

From crafts, paintings, and more: this museum has many famous works on display

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

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.

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.

A place to appreciate masterful works of glass

Experience the charm of The Tale of Genji using all five senses

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.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.