Best History Museums Spot List

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

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

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

A classical red brick building

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

The Kyoto National Museum houses many artworks and cultural properties of Kyoto dating from the Heian period (794-1185) to the Edo period (1603-1868).

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.

Learn about the culture of Niigata

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

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

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

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

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

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Don't miss these white-walled buildings

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

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

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

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