A museum full of interesting materials
Special local products such as sake, rice, and koji (aspergillus oryzae) are lined up
A museum specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.
The museum houses 900 drums, including Japanese drums and others from all over the world. Visitors can touch and play the drums.
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.
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.
Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family
This museum owns over 38,000 artifacts relating to the culture and history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.
View real-life tachineputa all year
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.
At Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center , you can look, touch, and experience Japanese sake, authentic shochu, awamori and so on.
The Philatelic Museum in Tokyo is one of the rare museums in Japan, and visitors can discover the fun and charm of postal stamps from all over the world.
Become intimate with literature in this famous building
Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art
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.
Become familiar with the ocean, ships, science, and technology
A ritual worth fighting your fear to see
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.
An exact reproduction of the Meiji-Era Shimbashi Station, the first railway terminal in Japan.
Works related to the Harima area are on display here. The watchful figure of Himeji Castle is beautiful