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Tottori

Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory

A museum in Hokuei about Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, with displays and interactive exhi...

Hokuei, Tottori, Japan
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Kanagawa

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...

Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
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Kagoshima

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...

Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, Japan
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Kanagawa

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Henry Moore on the Lawn, Picasso Indoors and a 28-Meter Footbath

Japan's first open-air art museum, opened in 1969: about 120 sculptures spread over 70,000 square...

Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
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Aichi

Tokugawa Art Museum

Owari Tokugawa Treasures and the Genji Scrolls, Shown Each November

The collection of the Owari Tokugawa family, more than 10,000 items including nine National Treas...

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Tokyo

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...

Tokyo, Japan
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Aichi

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...

Nagakute, Aichi, Japan
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Hyogo

Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum

Takarazuka’s Tezuka museum explores the imagination behind Astro Boy and other influential manga ...

Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan
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Tokyo

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...

Tokyo, Japan
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Nagasaki

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...

Nagasaki, Japan
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Kagoshima

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...

Kagoshima, Japan
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Gifu

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...

Yaotsu, Gifu, Japan
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Tokyo

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...

Tokyo, Japan
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Tottori

Tottori Sand Museum

Large sand sculptures in an indoor gallery beside the Tottori dunes, with exhibitions rebuilt aro...

Tottori, Japan
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Chiba

Ino Tadataka Museum

A museum in Sawara tracing the surveying journeys and mapmaking of Ino Tadataka through maps, ins...

Katori, Chiba, Japan