# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Ibaraki City Museum of Christian Relics](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ibaraki-city-museum-of-christian-relics): Osaka, Museum. A small municipal museum in the mountain hamlet of Senteiji, north of Ibaraki City, preserving relics of the "kakure kirishitan" (hidden Christians) who kept their faith in secret for over two centuries after Japan banned Christianity. - [D.T. Suzuki Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/d-t-suzuki-museum): Ishikawa, Museum. A quiet museum in Kanazawa devoted to the Buddhist philosopher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, built around a water garden. - [21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/21st-century-museum-of-contemporary-art): Ishikawa, Museum. A striking circular glass museum by SANAA architects, famous for its interactive Swimming Pool installation. - [Tokyo National Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tokyo-national-museum): Tokyo, Museum. Japan's oldest and largest national museum with over 110,000 objects including 89 National Treasures. - [Railway Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/railway-museum): Saitama, Museum. You get in through an automatic ticket gate, exactly like a station, which is the first joke and sets the tone. The Railway Museum opened in Omiya in 2007 on JR East's own historical collection and doubled in size with a new wing in 2018. The centrepiece is the Rolling Stock Station, a hall holding 36 real vehicles arranged around a turntable: a Meiji-era steam locomotive, prewar electric cars, a sleeper carriage, imperial saloon cars behind glass, and a 0-series Shinkansen nose that still looks like the future it was sold as. Several times a day they rotate the C57 on the turntable and blow the whistle, which is loud in an enclosed hall and worth being present for. Upstairs is the engineering: signalling, brakes, why a flanged wheel stays on a rail, and a very large model diorama with scheduled shows. There are driving simulators, including a D51 steam simulator that requires you to shovel, and an E5 Shinkansen one that runs by lottery. Outside, a small train circuit lets children actually drive for a few hundred yen. It is designed for children and it is thorough enough for adults who like machines. English signage exists but the deeper labels are Japanese only. Tickets are around 1,600 yen and are sold in advance online and at convenience stores, and from machines at the museum on the day unless it has reached capacity. Weekends and school holidays are busy and the simulator lotteries fill within the first hour. From Omiya, take the New Shuttle one stop to Tetsudo-Hakubutsukan. - [Osaka Museum of Housing and Living](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/osaka-museum-of-housing-and-living): Osaka, Museum. A full-scale, walk-through reconstruction of a 19th-century Osaka townscape on the 9th floor, complete with merchant houses, a public bath, and a fire watchtower. Day-to-night lighting cycles through every 15 minutes. The 8th floor adds models of Meiji, Taisho, and Showa-era Osaka neighborhoods. Kimono rental for photos is the main draw for international visitors. - [Adachi Museum of Art](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/adachi-museum-of-art): Shimane, Museum. Art museum whose Japanese gardens have been ranked best in Japan by the Journal of Japanese Gardening for 20+ consecutive years. - [Ghibli Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ghibli-museum): Tokyo, Museum. Whimsical museum dedicated to Studio Ghibli's animated films, featuring exclusive short films and a rooftop Robot Soldier. - [Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/fukui-prefectural-dinosaur-museum): Fukui, Museum. A dinosaur museum next to one of Japan's most productive fossil beds, with over 50 mounted skeletons under a silver dome. - [Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/cup-noodles-museum-osaka-ikeda): Osaka, Museum. An interactive museum where Momofuku Ando invented chicken ramen in 1958, featuring hands-on workshops to create your own cup noodles. - [Miho Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/miho-museum): Shiga, Museum. A mountain museum near Shigaraki designed by I. M. Pei, reached through a tunnel and suspension bridge, holding Japanese and ancient-world art. It opens seasonally, so check dates before visiting. - [Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shin-yokohama-ramen-museum): Kanagawa, Museum. An indoor food theme park recreating a 1958 Tokyo streetscape, where ramen shops from across Japan serve their regional specialties. - [Otsuka Museum of Art](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/otsuka-museum-of-art): Tokushima, Museum. A large museum in Naruto displaying more than 1,000 full-size ceramic-board reproductions of Western paintings from ancient to modern times. - [Tsunami Memorial Museum and Michi-no-Eki Takata Matsubara](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tsunami-memorial-museum-and-michi-no-eki-takata-matsubara): Iwate, Museum. A combined roadside station and free memorial museum in the Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstruction Memorial Park, telling the story of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, with a local-products shop, a restaurant, and a short walk to the Miracle Lone Pine. - [Kyoto Railway Museum](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyoto-railway-museum): Kyoto, Museum. JR West's railway museum in Umekoji Park, with more than 50 real trains from steam locomotives to the first Shinkansen, a working 1914 roundhouse and a short steam-train ride. Page 1 of 6. Next page: https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations.md?destination_type=museum&page=2 --- Source: [Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations?destination_type=museum) Last updated: 2026-11-07