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Toyama

Toyama Glass Art Museum

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

Toyama, Japan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tokyo

teamLab Planets

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

Tokyo, Japan
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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
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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
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Tokyo

Ghibli Museum

Studio Ghibli Animation Museum

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

Tokyo, Japan
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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
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Tochigi

Oya History Museum

A Cathedral-Like Underground Quarry Carved from Stone

A stunning underground space carved out of Oya stone quarries, with soaring 30-meter ceilings rem...

Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
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Aichi

Toyota Commemorative Museum

From Looms to Cars — The Toyota Story in a Historic Factory

Housed in Toyota's original factory building, this museum traces the evolution from textile looms...

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Tokushima

Awa Odori Kaikan

Year-Round Home of Japan's Largest Traditional Dance Festival

A year-round venue and museum dedicated to the Awa Odori, Japan's largest traditional dance festi...

Tokushima, Japan
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Kanagawa

Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

An interactive museum dedicated to instant noodles where visitors can create their own custom Cup...

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Akita

Namahage Museum

A museum dedicated to the Namahage folk tradition of the Oga Peninsula

The Namahage Museum in Oga, Akita showcases the UNESCO-listed Namahage tradition — fearsome maske...

Oga, Akita, Japan
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Tokyo

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...

Tokyo, Japan
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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
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Hokkaido

Sapporo Beer Museum

Japan's Only Beer Museum

Japan's only beer museum, housed in an atmospheric red-brick Meiji-era building with tastings ava...

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan