Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.

A paradise of demons

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

Become familiar with the ocean, ships, science, and technology

This museum exhibits academic specimens and research materials owned by the University of Tokyo. It is a museum where brings an academic heritage into creation of a new culture and design.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

A thought-provoking museum about the history, culture and social role of currency.

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

Located at the birthplace of sumo, this museum offers a chance to explore the history of the sport. It features a full-size sumo ring and a collection of about 12,000 sumo-related artifacts.

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

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.

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

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

A museum introducing Edo hanabi (fireworks) and brimming with the atmosphere of the era.

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

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

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

Saitama Midori-no-mori Museum is a field museum that presents the satoyama (traditional agricultural) landscapes of Sayama-kyuryo Hills, such as wooded areas and swamps.