Best Other Museums Spot List

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

View real-life tachineputa all year

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.

This museum displays the works of leading Japanese modern sculptor Fumio Asakura: the site is registered nationally as a Place of Scenic Beauty and the structure itself as a Tangible Cultural Property.

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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.

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

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

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 specializing in Japanese swords. Some 190 items including swords, mountings and fittings, armor, and information on metalwork.

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

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