Best Other Museums Spot List

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

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

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.

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.

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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

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

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.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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

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

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

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 human rights museum that confronts universal human issues

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 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.