Best Museums Spot List

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

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.

Learn about aviation science

An open-air museum where historical buildings having high cultural value are restored and displayed on a large site.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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.

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

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

A place to appreciate masterful works of glass

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

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

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Exhibits include animal specimens and artifacts; this is only place you can see a stuffed Ezo (Hokkaido) wolf

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

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

A world of mystery and illusion

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

Includes a wide-angle observation deck to enjoy