Best Other Museums Spot List

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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

The museum exhibits precious fossils of prehistoric life and a large diorama replicated the forests of Saitama. It is a museum where you can learn the 300 million years of the natural history of the prefecture.

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

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.

Learn about sake brewing

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.

This is a hands-on museum in which you can learn by looking at, touching, and operating exhibits. You can enjoy learning the history and the latest technology of subway systems.

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

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

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

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 journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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

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

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites