Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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 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.

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

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

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

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 housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

It succeeds in recreating the model of railway trains down to the last detail by utilizing authentic railway technology. The museum of Nobutaro Hara's model railway and his collection.

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

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 journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

Become familiar with the ocean, ships, science, and technology

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.

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

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

View real-life tachineputa all year