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...
Nezu Museum
Korin's Irises Screen Each Spring and a Hillside Garden Behind Omotesando
A museum of Japanese and East Asian art built on railway magnate Nezu Kaichiro's estate, with a 2...
Nara National Museum
Buddhist Art in Nara Park, and the Two Autumn Weeks of the Shosoin Exhibition
Japan's second-oldest national museum, on the edge of Nara Park between Kofuku-ji and Todai-ji. I...
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...
Honda Collection Hall
Honda's Story in Bikes and Cars, Inside the Motegi Race Circuit
Honda's own museum, inside the Mobility Resort Motegi race circuit and park, with motorcycles, ca...
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...
Iga-ryu Ninja Museum
Ninja Museum with a Trick House and Demonstrations
A museum in Iga devoted to the ninja tradition, featuring a trick residence, tool exhibits, and d...
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...
Ohara Museum of Art
El Greco and Monet Beside a Kurashiki Canal Since 1930
Japan's first private museum centered on Western art, opened in 1930 on the canal in the Kurashik...
Sagawa Art Museum
Water-Surrounded Museum on the Moriyama Lakeshore
A serene museum near the Moriyama lakeshore whose low pavilions appear to float on a broad reflec...
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...
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 ...
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...
Chichu Art Museum
Monet, Turrell and De Maria Underground, in Daylight, on Naoshima
Tadao Ando's mostly underground museum on Naoshima, opened in 2004, with permanent rooms for Clau...
Meiji Mura
Open-Air Museum of Relocated Meiji-Era Buildings
An open-air architectural museum in Inuyama that preserves more than 60 buildings from the Meiji ...