Best places: Museums in Japan

👍👍 Fun and educational tour and experience. The Ninja tour guide, runs through different periods and explains the history of Ninja, Samurai, Shoguns etc. The ninja Star throwing contest adds some fun interactive experience. Definitely recommend.

Small museum with Edo-period armor & sword displays & family-friendly instruction in warrior skills.

Popular museum documenting the WWII atomic-bomb blast in Hiroshima via exhibits, artifacts & talks.

👍👍 A fantastic experience, and it's well worth visiting. The interactivity of the art/exhibits adds a great layer to it, and they're all unique. Due to some of the rooms, you're best wearing shorts or loose trousers that you can easily roll up so they don't get wet. You are able to loop back around as...

Popular, immersive museum known for its colorful, futuristic digital art installations & photo ops.

Transport museum showcasing more than 300 racing cars & bikes, plus futuristic technology displays.

Sleek, contemporary structure with tool displays, building models & workshops, plus a garden.

Modern gallery with views of Sagami Bay, showing the works of its designer, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Stately museum complex devoted to the art & antiquities of Japan, as well as other Asian countries.

Tours are offered of this iconic temple with a scenic pond & garden, plus a building with artifacts.

Modern paleontology museum featuring reconstructed dinosaur bones, fossils & outdoor excavations.

Complex devoted to the Gundam animated franchise, with a huge moving robot plus a shop & a cafe.

Museum with photos, clippings & artifacts documenting the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.

Huge, offbeat sculpture built for the 1970 World’s Fair & offering tours with advance booking.

Uniform displays, aircraft seats & a cockpit, plus tours of a working maintenance hangar.

Striking, multi-story tower rising above Osaka Castle complex, with gold-leaf detailing & a museum.

Exhibits on the output of the Suzuki company, from early loom manufacture to motorbikes & trucks.

👍👍 It was a mountain road on the way to go. It's not difficult to drive because it is well maintained, but I thought I could go on a normal road, so please refer to it! The museum itself is very clean and well maintained. I'm still in my twenties, so I couldn't fully enjoy the goodness of the work, bu...

Homey museum showcasing artful bonsai trees in sleek galleries & outdoor gardens with koi ponds.