Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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

This is a hands-on museum in which you can learn by looking at, touching, and operating exhibits. You can enjoy learning the history and the latest technology of subway systems.

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.

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

View real-life tachineputa all year

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

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

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 museum telling all about Aomori's own master of art

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

Learn about sake brewing

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

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

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.