Best Other Museums Spot List

Imparts the history of Nada sake brewing

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.

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A paradise of demons

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 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.

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

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

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

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.

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

A museum telling all about Aomori's own master of art

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon