Best Other Museums Spot List

A museum full of interesting materials

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

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.

The Railway Museum displays 37 real railway cars and lets you try out rail car operations yourself.

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

A paradise of demons

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.

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

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 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.

An exact reproduction of the Meiji-Era Shimbashi Station, the first railway terminal in Japan.

Learn about sake brewing

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

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

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.

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.

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.

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.