🏛️ Museums in Tokyo

Tokyo National Museum

Japan's Largest Art Museum

Japan's oldest and largest national museum with over 110,000 objects including 89 National Treasu...

teamLab Borderless

An Immersive Digital Art Museum Without Boundaries

A groundbreaking digital art museum by teamLab where immersive artworks flow between rooms, respo...

Ghibli Museum

Studio Ghibli Animation Museum

Whimsical museum dedicated to Studio Ghibli's animated films, featuring exclusive short films and...

teamLab Planets

A body-immersive museum where visitors wade barefoot through water and walk into massive digital ...

National Museum of Western Art

Le Corbusier's UNESCO World Heritage Museum in Ueno

Designed by Le Corbusier and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, the National Muse...

The National Art Center, Tokyo

A Wavy Glass Facade, 14,000 m² of Galleries and No Collection

A national art center in Roppongi with no collection of its own, only temporary exhibitions in 12...

National Museum of Nature and Science

Dinosaurs, a Plesiosaur and a 1931 Hall in Ueno Park

Japan's national museum of natural history and science, in two buildings: the 1931 Japan Gallery,...

Yayoi Kusama Museum

Kusama's Own Five-Floor Museum, Timed Tickets Only

The museum Yayoi Kusama founded in 2017 in a quiet corner of Shinjuku, showing her work in two ex...

Nezu Museum

Korin's Irises Screen Each Spring and a Hillside Garden Behind Omotesando

A museum of Japanese and East Asian art built on railway magnate Nezu Kaichiro's estate, with a 2...

Edo-Tokyo Museum

A Life-Size Nihonbashi Bridge Inside a Museum on Four Legs, Reopened in 2026

Tokyo's history museum next to the Ryogoku sumo hall, back open since March 31, 2026 after a reno...

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

Thirty Rescued Tokyo Buildings in Koganei Park, Ghibli Links Included

An open-air museum in Koganei Park where 30 historic buildings, from Edo-period farmhouses to a 1...

Miraikan

A 6-Meter Glowing Globe and Science in Progress in Odaiba

Japan's national museum of current science, opened in Odaiba in 2001 and known for Geo-Cosmos, a ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Japan's First Public Art Museum, Where Each Show Has Its Own Ticket

Opened in 1926 as Japan's first public art museum. There is no permanent collection display: the ...

MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)

Japanese Art Since Meiji, With a View Over the Palace Moat

Japan's first national art museum, opened in 1952 and in Kitanomaru Park since 1969. The MOMAT Co...

Meguro Parasitological Museum

An 8.8-Meter Tapeworm and 300 Jars of Parasites, Free in Meguro

A small private museum devoted to parasites, founded in 1953 by the doctor Satoru Kamegai. About ...