Best Museums Spot List

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 secret underground cavern! Enjoy seeing historical Oya Stone and panoramic views.

Walk around the extensive grounds covering 70,000 square meters while enjoying the spectacular sculptures surrounded by magnificent greenery.

Learn everything there is to know about the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

You can experience the world of Mitsuo Aida, a poet and calligrapher who emphasized the preciousness of life with his own phrases and unique styles of calligraphy.

This is the world's first museum dedicated to the classic novella ”The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It displays documentation and memorabilia from the author Saint-Exupéry, and visitors can fully enjoy the world of ”The Little Prince.”

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

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.

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

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

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

Take a stroll and observe art

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

Learn about the nature of Mt. Taisetsu with varied displays

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

A lifetime's worth of paintings

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail