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 ...
Mori Art Museum and Tokyo City View
Contemporary Art on the 53rd Floor, Open Until 22:00 Most Nights
A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, with exhibitions that c...
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
A Clock Stopped at 11:02 and a Rebuilt Cathedral Wall, for 200 Yen
The city museum on the hill above the hypocenter, covering the bombing of August 9, 1945, the dam...
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...
MOA Museum of Art
Seven Escalators Up a Hill to Korin's Plum Screen Above Atami
A private museum on the hill above Atami Station with about 3,500 works of mostly East Asian art,...
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Takarazuka’s Tezuka museum explores the imagination behind Astro Boy and other influential manga ...
Pola Museum of Art
Monet and Renoir in a Museum Sunk into a Hakone Beech Forest
A museum in the Sengokuhara woods, opened in 2002, built mostly underground to keep it 8 meters h...
Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park
Japan's National Ainu Museum, With Ainu Language on Every Label First
The national centre for Ainu culture, opened in 2020 on the shore of Lake Poroto in Shiraoi: the ...
Battleship Mikasa
Togo's 1905 Flagship, Set in Concrete at the Edge of Yokosuka
The British-built battleship that carried Admiral Togo Heihachiro at the Battle of Tsushima in 19...
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...
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...
Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Museum)
A 26-Meter Battleship Model, Back on Show in Kure Since April 2026
Kure's naval and shipbuilding history museum, built around a 26.3-meter, one-tenth scale model of...
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...
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art
A former hillside villa brings domestic architecture, craft and modern gallery spaces together ab...