Best Museums Spot List

A museum inside the building of Tokyo University of the Arts, the best out of all the art universities in Japan. It stores approximately 29,000 items of mainly Japanese modern arts.

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

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

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

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

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

Lalique Museum, Hakone exhibits about 230 pieces of French artist, René Lalique (1860-1945) who created precious jewelry in Art Nouveau style, and beautiful objects in glass during Art Deco period.

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

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).

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

Feel the history of Kitakami at the outdoor museum

The Suntory Museum of Art is directly connected with Roppongi Station and inside Tokyo Midtown — a chic integrated complex where you can enjoy shopping.

Learn about sake brewing

The Science Museum allows people of all ages to see, touch, and experience science. A variety of workshops held every day are also appealing.

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

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

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.

Sannomaru Shozokan is a public art gallery exhibiting works such as paintings, calligraphy and crafts handed down to the Imperial Family.

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