Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
Portraits and Last Letters of 1,036 Army Special Attack Pilots
A museum on the site of the wartime Chiran airfield that displays the portraits, letters and will...
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...
Historical Village of Hokkaido
52 Pioneer-Era Buildings and a Horse-Drawn Tram on Sapporo's Edge
An open-air museum with 52 buildings from the Meiji to early Showa periods, moved or reconstructe...
Kyoto National Museum
Kyoto's Temple Treasures, Rotated Monthly Behind a Meiji Brick Facade
Opened in 1897 to protect the cultural property handed down in Kyoto, the museum shows its own co...
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...
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...
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Takarazuka’s Tezuka museum explores the imagination behind Astro Boy and other influential manga ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Postwar Japanese Art in a Glass Hall at the Edge of Kiba Park
Tokyo's public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1995 on the north edge of Kiba Park, with ab...
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...
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...
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...