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Ibaraki City Museum of Christian Relics photo
Museum
Osaka

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...

Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo National Museum
Museum
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...

Tokyo, Japan
Railway Museum
Museum
Saitama

Railway Museum

The Railway Museum

The Railway Museum in Omiya is one of Japan's largest train museums, housing 36 real train cars s...

Saitama, Japan
Osaka Museum of Housing and Living photo
Museum
Osaka

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...

Osaka, Japan
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum photo
Museum
Fukui

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

One of the world's top three dinosaur museums, featuring over 50 mounted skeletons in a spectacul...

Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan
Otsuka Museum of Art photo
Museum
Tokushima

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...

Naruto, Tokushima, Japan
Miho Museum photo
Museum
Shiga

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...

Koka, Shiga, Japan
Michi-no-Eki Takata Matsubara and Tsunami Memorial Museum photo
Museum
Iwate

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...

Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan
Museum
Tokyo

teamLab Borderless

An Immersive Digital Art Museum Without Boundaries

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

Tokyo, Japan
Museum
Toyama

Toyama Glass Art Museum

A museum designed by architect Kengo Kuma, featuring intricate timber lattice interiors and accla...

Toyama, Japan
Museum
Shimane

Adachi Museum of Art

Art museum whose Japanese gardens have been ranked best in Japan by the Journal of Japanese Garde...

Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Museum
Kyoto

Kyoto International Manga Museum

A Former School Housing 300,000 Manga Volumes

Housed in a former elementary school, this museum holds approximately 300,000 manga items. Visito...

Kyoto, Japan
Museum
Fukuoka

Hakata Machiya Folk Museum

Window into Hakata's Traditional Merchant Culture

Small folk museum preserving Hakata's traditional merchant culture with Meiji-era machiya townhou...

Fukuoka, Japan
Museum
Kanagawa

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...

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Museum
Ishikawa

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...

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan