Best Museums Spot List

Discover Tohoku history and culture

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

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

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 introduction to the history of Hyogo from all angles

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).

Hakone Garasunomori Museum, or the Venetian Glass Museum in Hakone, is the first museum of this kind in Japan. The glass exhibitions that change each season are worth seeing.

A museum that displays precious references to sumo wrestling — a form of traditional culture dating to the era of Japanese myths.

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

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.

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

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

The leading domestic collection of modern art prints

Built on the Naniwanomiya Site, the museum allows visitors to learn about the history of Osaka from ancient times to the present.

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

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

Enjoy the world of science as if you are playing a game

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.