Best Other Museums Spot List

At the Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum in Kobe, you can experience the unbroken tradition of sake brewing and learn about its deep appeal.

A museum full of interesting materials

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.

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

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

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 nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

Amuse Museum is an art complex where a museum of the textile culture and ukiyoe (paintings of everyday life in the Edo period 1603 – 1868), a select shop of Japanese-style products, and an event hall are combined.

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Experience the sensibility of an artist

Special local products such as sake, rice, and koji (aspergillus oryzae) are lined up

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

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

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

This is a grand-scale building that stands on a corner of the land where the Sakura Castle used to be. The museum's exhibition is presented so that visitors can easily understand Japanese history.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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.

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

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing