Best Other Museums Spot List

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

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

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Become intimate with literature in this famous building

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 invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

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.

A facility where you can experience the nature and history of remote wilderness of Oku-Nikko

View real-life tachineputa all year

A journey from the past to the present of Kyoto railways

Understand and experience a disaster, while learning about minimizing risk and damage from natural disasters

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