Best History Museums Spot List

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

Articles from Ryoma Sakamoto and the Shinsengumi are on display

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

The Yokohama Archives of History is situated near Kaiko Plaza Park, where the Kanagawa Convention or the US-Japan Peace and Amity Treaty was signed. It is a house of archives where you can learn about the history of Yokohama City.

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

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

Observe how sturdy silk fabrics are produced

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

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

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

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

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

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

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

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.