Best Museums Spot List

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.

A classical red brick building

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.

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

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

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.

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

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

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

Learn about the history of sake making, starting back in the Edo period (1603-1868)

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

A modern art museum to the south of Goryokaku

The largest collection of art pieces in Hokkaido

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Learn about the nature of Mt. Taisetsu with varied displays

An art museum with exhibits and concerts

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples