Best Other Museums Spot List

Enjoy invention and discovery through exhibits and experiences

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 paradise of demons

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

Koyasan, a treasury of esoteric Buddhism art

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

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.

Experience the sensibility of an artist

A ritual worth fighting your fear to see

Enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s world all with your family

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

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

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.

Learn about sake brewing

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