Ibaraki City Museum of Christian Relics
Museum of the Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians)
A small municipal museum in the mountain hamlet of Senteiji, north of Ibaraki City, preserving re...
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D.T. Suzuki Museum
Contemplative Museum for a Zen Philosopher
A quiet museum in Kanazawa devoted to the Buddhist philosopher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, built arou...
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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Kanazawa's Round Contemporary Art Museum
A striking circular glass museum by SANAA architects, famous for its interactive Swimming Pool in...
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Tokyo National Museum
Japan's Largest Art Museum
Japan's oldest and largest national museum with over 110,000 objects including 89 National Treasu...
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Railway Museum
The Railway Museum
You get in through an automatic ticket gate, exactly like a station, which is the first joke and ...
Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
Walk Through a Full-Scale Edo-Period Osaka Townscape
A full-scale, walk-through reconstruction of a 19th-century Osaka townscape on the 9th floor, com...
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Adachi Museum of Art
Art museum whose Japanese gardens have been ranked best in Japan by the Journal of Japanese Garde...
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Ghibli Museum
Studio Ghibli Animation Museum
Whimsical museum dedicated to Studio Ghibli's animated films, featuring exclusive short films and...
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
A dinosaur museum next to one of Japan's most productive fossil beds, with over 50 mounted skelet...
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Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda
The Birthplace of Instant Ramen
An interactive museum where Momofuku Ando invented chicken ramen in 1958, featuring hands-on work...
Miho Museum
I. M. Pei-Designed Museum Hidden in the Shigaraki Mountains
A mountain museum near Shigaraki designed by I. M. Pei, reached through a tunnel and suspension b...
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Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
A Retro Food Theme Park Celebrating Japan's Ramen Culture
An indoor food theme park recreating a 1958 Tokyo streetscape, where ramen shops from across Japa...
Otsuka Museum of Art
Museum of Full-Size Ceramic Reproductions of Western Masterpieces
A large museum in Naruto displaying more than 1,000 full-size ceramic-board reproductions of West...
Tsunami Memorial Museum and Michi-no-Eki Takata Matsubara
Free tsunami-memorial museum and roadside station in Rikuzentakata
A combined roadside station and free memorial museum in the Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstructi...
Kyoto Railway Museum
Steam Locomotives in a 1914 Roundhouse, Near Kyoto Station
JR West's railway museum in Umekoji Park, with more than 50 real trains from steam locomotives to...