Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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

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

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

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

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

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

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

Experience the sensibility of an artist

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

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

Learn about sake brewing

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.

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

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

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.

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.

Located at the birthplace of sumo, this museum offers a chance to explore the history of the sport. It features a full-size sumo ring and a collection of about 12,000 sumo-related artifacts.

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.