Discover Japan's Hidden Gems
Explore temples, shrines, castles, parks, and more
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...
Adachi Museum of Art
Art museum whose Japanese gardens have been ranked best in Japan by the Journal of Japanese Garde...
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 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
The Railway Museum in Omiya is one of Japan's largest train museums, housing 36 real train cars s...
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...