Best Museums Spot List

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

A building that is in itself a work of art. An art center where you can enjoy a variety of art exhibitions.

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

Artworks await to gratify your spirit

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

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.

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.

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

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

Works related to the Harima area are on display here. The watchful figure of Himeji Castle is beautiful

The Meguro Parasitological Museum exhibits 300 specimens of tapeworms and related material from inside and outside Japan. This is a research facility and museum devoted to parasites.

Introducing life in Osaka during the Edo period, the museum makes it fun to learn about the history and culture of housing and living.

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

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.

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

The museum exhibits precious fossils of prehistoric life and a large diorama replicated the forests of Saitama. It is a museum where you can learn the 300 million years of the natural history of the prefecture.

A classical red brick building

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

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing