Best History Museums Spot List

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

A secret underground cavern! Enjoy seeing historical Oya Stone and panoramic views.

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

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

Discover Tohoku history and culture

Keeps precious materials belonging to the Ii Clan

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

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

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

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

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

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

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

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.

The Perry Memorial Hall is a museum that illustrates the Perry Expedition (1853－1854), which paved the way to the opening of Japan, and the history leading to it through dioramas and historical documents.