Best Other Museums Spot List

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

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

A hall that holds rakugo (comic storytelling) performances throughout the year. It also holds a variety of other performances, such as manzai (a two-man comedy act), that are worth seeing.

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

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

A museum housing the entire collection of photographer Ken Domon

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

A nostalgic masterpiece of Taisho-period architecture

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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.

A paradise of demons

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

The Philatelic Museum in Tokyo is one of the rare museums in Japan, and visitors can discover the fun and charm of postal stamps from all over the world.

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.

The museum houses 900 drums, including Japanese drums and others from all over the world. Visitors can touch and play the drums.

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 thought-provoking museum about the history, culture and social role of currency.

A toy museum where you can enjoy picking out favorites

Learn about sake brewing