Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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.

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

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

View real-life tachineputa all year

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

The Meguro Parasitological Museum exhibits 300 specimens of tapeworms and related material from inside and outside Japan. This is a research facility and museum devoted to parasites.

The Higashi-yamato Municipal Folk Museum has ”the Sayama Hills and life” as its theme. The museum has a planetarium equipped with a Megastar projector, which casts images of stars.

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

A hall that holds rakugo (comic storytelling) performances throughout the year. It also holds a variety of other performances, such as manzai (a two-man comedy act), that are worth seeing.

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

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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

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 massive collection of manga from all over the world, from the famous to rare finds

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.

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

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.