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 globally unique coffee museum. Learn about the spiritually rich lifestyles that coffee can lead to.

A museum full of interesting materials

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

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.

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

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

View real-life tachineputa all year

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

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

Learn about sake brewing

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

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.

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

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

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways