Best History Museums Spot List

Built on the Naniwanomiya Site, the museum allows visitors to learn about the history of Osaka from ancient times to the present.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

The building and the interior itself are the display! Experience Kyoto's elegance

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

The second-oldest national museum in Japan, located in Nara Park. It boasts the nation's greatest collection of Buddhist art.

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

A place connected to Matsuo Basho. A garden with flowers and trees associated with his haiku and Shiseki Tembo Teien with a waterside view are the highlights.

Introducing life in Osaka during the Edo period, the museum makes it fun to learn about the history and culture of housing and living.

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

Reproduces the streets of Fukagawa Saga-cho in the Edo Period so visitors can see the scene and lifestyle of that period.

This is one of the three greatest commemorative ships in the world. It has been preserved as a symbol of the nation’s pride that attained the victory in the naval battle for defending national independence.