Discover Japan's Hidden Gems

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

Kanazawa's Iconic Circular Art Museum

A striking circular glass museum by SANAA architects, famous for its interactive Swimming Pool in...

Adachi Museum of Art

A world-renowned museum celebrated for its Japanese gardens, ranked the best in Japan for over 20...

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...

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...

Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama

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

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

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

Ghibli Museum

Studio Ghibli Animation Museum

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

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...

Kobe Earthquake Memorial Museum (DRI)

Interactive Museum Documenting the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

Powerful interactive museum documenting the devastating 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake with ...

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...

Namahage Museum

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

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

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...

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...

Railway Museum

The Railway Museum

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...

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...

Tokyo National Museum

Japan's Largest Art Museum

Japan's oldest and largest national museum with over 110,000 objects including 89 National Treasu...

Toyama Glass Art Museum

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

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...

teamLab Borderless

An Immersive Digital Art Museum Without Boundaries

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