Best Museums Spot List

An art center open to all where you can enjoy exhibitions, workshops, and a variety of other events.

Teaware masterpieces collected by a businessman

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

Museum of Yebisu Beer will teach you the history and the way to enjoy Yebisu beer at the birthplace of Yebisu beer.

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

A rare, underground art museum

Museum with vast premises covering some 30 hectares. Nature that makes you the feel the season, rooms that match the exhibitions, and the buildings themselves are all worth checking out.

A unique hexagon-shaped art museum that houses some 2,000 ceramics, Japanese lacquerwares, and tea kettles.

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

This is one of the three greatest commemorative ships in the world. It has been preserved as a symbol of the nation’s pride that attained the victory in the naval battle for defending national independence.

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.

Understand and experience a disaster, while learning about minimizing risk and damage from natural disasters

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

A museum where you can enjoy contemporary sculpture in the sleek, hexagonal main building and the four outdoor exhibition areas.

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

A technology gallery where you can experience Japanese high technology by looking, touching and operating. A guided tour is available, as well.

Appreciate masterpieces of French Impressionism

Meet the two famous cats that manage the station

A butler-guided tour

A museum relaunched in spring 2021 integrates the activities of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (closed in 2021) and its annex Hara Museum ARC