Shayokan (Dazai Osamu Memorial Museum)
Dazai Osamu's Birthplace, the Big Hiba House His Father Built in 1907
The house in Kanagi where the novelist Dazai Osamu was born in 1909, built two years earlier by h...
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 ...
Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument
The Hill Where 26 Christians Were Crucified in 1597, Five Minutes from Nagasaki Station
The execution ground of the 26 Martyrs of 1597, now a park with a long bronze memorial, a small m...
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...
Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
A museum in Hokuei about Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, with displays and interactive exhi...
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 ...
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Takarazuka’s Tezuka museum explores the imagination behind Astro Boy and other influential manga ...
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Prince Asaka's 1933 Art Deco Mansion and Its Lawns, Seven Minutes from Meguro
The 1933 home of Prince Asaka, with main rooms by the French Art Deco designers Henri Rapin and R...
Toyota Automobile Museum
About 140 Cars From Around the World, Not Just Toyotas
Toyota's car museum in Nagakute traces motoring from the first petrol cars of the late 19th centu...
Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall
The Yaotsu Museum of the Diplomat Who Wrote 2,139 Visas in 1940
A small cypress-built museum in the Hill of Humanity park in Yaotsu about Chiune Sugihara, the Ja...
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...
Fukagawa Edo Museum
A Full-Size 1840s Fukagawa Street You Can Walk Into, for 400 Yen
A city museum that rebuilds a corner of Fukagawa Saga-cho as it looked in the Tenpo era (1830s to...
Tottori Sand Museum
Large sand sculptures in an indoor gallery beside the Tottori dunes, with exhibitions rebuilt aro...
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art
A former hillside villa brings domestic architecture, craft and modern gallery spaces together ab...
Shoko Shuseikan
The Shimazu Family Museum in Satsuma's 1865 Stone Machine Factory, Next to Sengan-en
The Shimazu family's history museum, housed since 1923 in the stone machine factory of the Satsum...