| 1．Ashoro Museum of Paleontology |
| Ashoro Museum of Paleontology (足寄動物化石博物館, Ashoro Dōbutsu Kaseki Hakubutsukan) opened in Ashoro, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1998.[1] The collection includes desmostylians and other fossils from the area as well as geological exhibits relating to the Onnetō Hot Falls.[2][3] |
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| 2．Akkeshi Town Ōta Tonden Kaitaku Memorial Museum |
| Akkeshi Town Ōta Tonden Kaitaku Memorial Museum (厚岸町太田屯田開拓記念館, Akkeshi-chō Kaiji Kinenkan) opened in Akkeshi, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991 to commemorate the centenary of the settlement of Tondenhei "pioneers" in Ōta.[1][2] |
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| 3．Esashi Town Historical Museum |
| Esashi Town Historical Museum (江差町郷土資料館, Esashi-chō kyōdo shiryōkan) opened in Esashi, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2007. Dedicated to the nature, history, and way of life of Esashi, exhibits include Jōmon and Zoku-Jōmon artefacts, objects from the Satsumon culture, goods brought by the kitamaebune, and materials relating to the Battle of Hakodate.[1][2] |
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| 4．Eniwa City Historical Museum |
| Eniwa City Historical Museum (恵庭市郷土資料館, Eniwa-shi Kyōdo Shiryōkan) opened in Eniwa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1990. The display is organized in accordance with six main themes: the land, early peoples (Jōmon, Zoku-Jōmon, and Satumon cultures), Ainu homeland, opening up the land, the birth of the village of Eniwa, and post-war. The collection includes an assemblage of Jōmon-period artefacts from the Karinba ruins that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2] |
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| 5．Obihiro Centennial City Museum |
| Obihiro Centennial City Museum (帯広百年記念館, Obihiro Hyakunen Kinenkan) opened in Obihiro, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1982. It exhibits materials relating to the natural history, local history, and industries of Obihiro and of Tokachi more generally. There is an information centre dedicated to the history and culture of the Ainu and, in the museum annex, a centre for buried cultural properties. The collection includes an assemblage of Jōmon finds from the Yachiyo A site that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2][3] |
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| 6．Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum |
| The Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum (萱野茂二風谷アイヌ資料館, Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Shiryōkan) is a private museum of Ainu materials collected by Kayano Shigeru that opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1992.[1][2] |
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| 7．Kushiro City Museum |
| Kushiro City Museum (釧路市立博物館, Kushiro Shiritsu Hakubutsukan) is a registered museum in Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan.[2] The Museum's predecessor institution, the Kushiro City Folk Museum (釧路市立郷土博物館), began as an exhibition room at the offices of the local water board in 1936, before moving to a department store, then from 1949 to the relocated former Kushiro City Police Station.[1] Upon completion of the new, dedicated museum building in 1983, the museum was renamed the Kushiro City Museum.[1] The displays centre around the geology, flora and fauna, and history of the area, with exhibits including the fossil jaw from which the Kushiro tapir [ja] (Plesiocolopirus kushiroensis) was described as well as Jōmon, Satsumon, and Ainu materials.[3][4] |
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| 8．Chitose Aquarium |
| Chitose Aquarium or The Salmon Hometown Chitose Aquarium (サケのふるさと 千歳水族館, Sake no furusato Chitose Suizokukan) is an Public aquarium located in Chitose City, Hokkaido, Japan. The aquarium specializes in freshwater fish, Researching in salmon and sturgeon.[3] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA),[4] and the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5] |
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| 9．Historical Museum of the Saru River |
| The Historical Museum of the Saru River (沙流川歴史館, Saru-gawa Rekishi-kan) opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1998, the year after Nibutani Dam was completed.[1] The Museum documents the natural and cultural history of life along the Saru River and has information on nearby chashi. The collection includes 123 objects dating from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries that were excavated from the Nibutani Site (二風谷遺跡) and have been designated a Prefectural Cultural Property.[2] The "Cultural Landscape along the Sarugawa River resulting from Ainu Tradition and Modern Settlement" has been designated an Important Cultural Landscape.[3][4] |
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| 10．Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum |
| Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum (標津サーモン科学館, Shibetsu Sāmon Kagaku-kan) opened in Shibetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991. It is dedicated to the ecology of the world's salmonids and to Hokkaidō's salmon culture. In 1992 there were 130,000 visitors, while in 2011 the number dropped to 50,000.[1][2][3] |
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| 11．Shinhidaka Ainu Museum |
| Shinhidaka Ainu Museum (新ひだか町アイヌ民俗資料館, Shinhidaka-chō Ainu Minzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum of Ainu materials in Shinhidaka, Hokkaidō, Japan. The display has an area dedicated to Shakushain's 1669 revolt over fishing rights on the Shizunai River and swords and iron vessels excavated from local chashi. The collection also includes the skull of an Ezo wolf that has been designated a Municipal Cultural Property. Shinhidaka itself is a relatively new town, formed in 2006 from the merger of the former towns of Mitsuishi and Shizunai. Located in what was once Shizunai, the museum first opened in 1983 as the Shizunai Ainu Museum (静内町アイヌ民俗資料館).[1][2][3] |
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| 12．Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum |
| The Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum (忠類ナウマン象記念館, Chūrui Nauman-zō Kinenkan) opened in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a fossilized Naumann's elephant in Chūrui, now Makubetsu, on 26 July 1969, during construction work on a farm road: the youth who unearthed the initial piece with his pickaxe crying out "this is an elephant's tooth" (「これは象の歯だ」). During the course of three subsequent excavations, some forty-seven bones were recovered, representing 70–80% of the total skeleton. Twenty-two museums in Japan and the rest of the world now house the reconstructed elephant's remains from the Chrui finds.[1] |
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| 13．Teshikaga Town Kussharo Kotan Ainu Museum |
| Teshikaga Town Kussharo Kotan Ainu Museum (弟子屈町屈斜路コタンアイヌ民族資料館, Teshikaga-chō Kussharo Kotan Ainu Minzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum of the local Ainu and their culture in Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan. It opened in 1982 on the shore of Lake Kussharo and has some 450 items on display, including materials relating to yukar and kotan.[1][2] |
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| 14．Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum |
| Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum (平取町立二風谷アイヌ文化博物館, Biratori-chō Nibutani Ainu Bunka Hakubutsukan) opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1992. The collection includes 919 items relating to the daily life of the local Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property; a further 202 items from the same designation may be found at the nearby Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum (萱野茂二風谷アイヌ資料館).[1][2][3] |
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| 15．Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature |
| Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature (根室市歴史と自然の資料館, Nemuro-shi Rekishi to Shizen no Shiryōkan) is a museum-equivalent facility in Nemuro, Hokkaidō, Japan. It was established by the City of Nemuro in 2004 and is classed as a general museum,[1] collecting and exhibiting materials relating both to the humanities and the natural sciences. |
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| 16．Ishikari City Hamamasu Folk Museum |
| The Ishikari City Hamamasu Folk Museum (石狩市はまます郷土資料館, Ishikari-shi Hamamasu Kyōdo Shiryōkan) is a local museum in Ishikari, Hokkaidō, Japan. Formerly the Shiratori Family Guard Station (旧白鳥家番屋), the building was constructed in 1899 and served as a banqueting hall for the herring fishery workers. With the decline of the industry in the 1950s, the building fell into a state of disrepair. Restored by the then Hamamasu Village in 1971 as part of the centenary celebrations of the village's development, it served as the Hamamasu Village Museum (浜益村郷土資料館). Upon the merger of Hamamasu into Ishikari, the museum assumed its current identity. The building has been designated a Municipal Tangible Cultural Property and in 2006 was selected as one of the nation's 100 Fishing Village Heritage Sites. The collection includes tools and materials relating to the history of the local fishing industry.[1][2][3] |
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| 17．Farm Tomita |
| Farm Tomita (ファーム富田) is a farm in Nakafurano, Hokkaido, Japan. Farm Tomita is one of the many farms in the area which create this reputation by planting giant fields of lavender and other colorful crops such as tulips. Right, is a picture of one of the many scenic vistas available to tourists who visit the farm. The farm also sells many products based on the lavender it produces, from lavender scented candles and soap to lavender flavored drinks and ice cream. |
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| 18．Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center |
| Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center (北海道立埋蔵文化財センター, Hokkaidō-ritsu Maizō Bunkazai Sentaa) opened in Ebetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. Its aim is to protect, preserve, and utilize buried cultural properties.[1][2] |
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| 19．Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum |
| Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum (むかわ町立穂別博物館, Mukawa Chōritsu Hobetsu Hakubutsukan) is a museum specializing in fossils in Mukawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. The Museum first opened in 1982 as the Hobetsu Museum (穂別博物館), in what was then the town of Hobetsu; with the merger into Mukawa in 2006, the Museum changed its name.[1] |
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| 20．Mikasa City Museum |
| Mikasa City Museum (三笠市立博物館, Mikasa-shi Hakubutsukan) opened in Mikasa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1979. The collection documents the natural history and history of the area and is renowned for its ammonites as well as for the Yezo Mikasa Ryū type fossil, discovered in 1976 and designated a Natural Monument.[1][2] |
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| 21．Yakumo Town Museum |
| Yakumo Town Museum (八雲町郷土資料館, Yakumo-chō Kyōdo Shiryōkan) opened in Yakumo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1978. Its origins lie in a room for the display of historical materials established in 1952 in the old public hall, superseded in 1965 by storage facilities and an exhibition space in the new public hall. The display is organized around three main themes: history and the land, the Hokkaido Development Commission and the lives of the people, and local industries, including mining and the craft of kibori-guma, a museum of which lies next door. The collection of over thirteen thousand objects includes a Jōmon red ceramic vessel with spout from the Nodaoi I Site and an assemblage of artefacts from the Jōmon Kotan Onsen Site that has been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 22．Yūbari Coal Mine Museum |
| Yūbari Coal Mine Museum (夕張市石炭博物館, Yūbari-shi Sekitan Hakubutsukan) opened in Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1980. It documents the importance of coal mining to the local economy from the Meiji period to the Shōwa period.[1][2] The museum is currently closed (October 1, 2017). |
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| 23．Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi |
| The Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi (蘭越町貝の館, Rankoshi-chō Kai no Yakata) is a museum dedicated to the shellfish of the world in Rankoshi, Hokkaidō, Japan. Ammonites and other aquatic molluscs from Hokkaidō's fossil record are also exhibited. Comprising two buildings, the first opened in 1991 and the second in 1994.[1] In 2017, the Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi together with the University of Toyama announced the discovery of a new species of clione.[2] |
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| 24．Asahiyama Zoo |
| The Asahiyama Zoo (旭山動物園, Asahiyama dōbutsuen) is a municipal zoo that opened in July 1967 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan, and is the northernmost zoo in the country.[2] In August 2004, over 320,000 people had visited the zoo, the second highest number of visitors among all the zoos in Japan.[3] Located in Higashi Asahikawa, on the outskirts of Asahikawa, the Asahiyama Zoo is accredited by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). |
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| 25．Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Museum |
| The Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Museum (川村カ子トアイヌ記念館, Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Kinenkan) is a private museum of materials relating to the Ainu in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. The museum first opened as the Ainu museum (アイヌ博物館) in 1916.[1] Kawamura Kaneto [ja] took over the museum from its founder, his father Kawamura Itakishiroma [ja], and oversaw its development, before his son Kawamura Kenichi (川村兼一) took over in turn.[1][2] |
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| 26．Hokuchin Memorial Museum |
| Hokuchin Memorial Museum (北鎮記念館) is a history museum located in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. The museum is a JGSDF Public Relations facility displaying as many as 2,500 items concerning the history of the Tondenhei Army, which developed Hokkaido, the 7th Division of the old Imperial Japanese Army, and the activities of the 2nd Division of today's JGSDF.[1] Admission is free.[2] |
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| 27．Abashiri City Folk Museum |
| Abashiri City Folk Museum (網走市立郷土博物館, Abashiri Shiritsu Kyōdo Hakubutsukan) opened as Kitami Kyōdo Yakata (北見郷土舘) in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1936, making it one of the oldest museums on the island. When the museum opened, the collection comprised some three-thousand archaeological and ethnographic objects collected by Yonemura Yoshio (米村喜男), including items from the Moyoro Shell Mound (モヨロ貝塚) (a national Historic Site). In 1948, the museum was transferred to the city. A new building was added in 1961 to celebrate 25 years from the original opening. Both the main building and the new building were designed by architect Tanoue Yoshiya, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, and mark the transitions in his style. They are national Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. |
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| 28．Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples |
| The Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples (北海道立北方民族博物館, Hokkaidō-ritsu Hoppō Minzoku Hakubutsukan) opened in Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1991. Dedicated to the various peoples of the North, across Eurasia and the Americas, the collection includes items relating to the Sámi, Nanai, Nivkhs, and Northwest Coast Indians, as well as the more local Okhotsk culture and Ainu.[1][2][3][4] |
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| 29．Otaru Music Box Museum |
| Otaru Music Box Museum (小樽オルゴール堂) is a music museum in the Otaru Orgel-do II building in Otaru, Japan. It includes various examples of music boxes as well as CDs that have music box-esque versions of various songs. Chris Bamforth of The Japan Times wrote that it had an "absolutely phenomenal" variety of music.[1] |
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| 30．Otaru City General Museum |
| The Otaru City General Museum (小樽市総合博物館) is a museum located in Temiya 1-chome, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, which features exhibits related to the history and nature of Hokkaido, transportation in the area (including railways), and science. |
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| 31．Otaru Aquarium |
| Otaru Aquarium (おたる水族館, Otaru-suizokukan) is a public aquarium operated by Otaru Public Aquarium Corporation, Third Sector, in Otaru City, Hokkaido, Japan. It is one of the largest aquariums in Hokkaido, and It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA).[3] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[5] |
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| 32．Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center |
| The Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center (札幌市アイヌ文化交流センター, Sapporo-shi Ainu Bunka Kōryū Sentā), also known as Sapporo Pirka Kotan (サッポロピㇼカコタン)[2] or "Beautiful Village",[1] opened in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, in 2003.[1] Dedicated to the Ainu people, their history, culture, and way of life, the museum has some three hundred artefacts on display and there is also a traditional-style cise (dwelling).[1][3] |
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| 33．Sapporo Beer Museum |
| The Sapporo Beer Museum (サッポロビール博物館, Sapporo Bīru Hakubutsukan) is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan.[2] The red-brick building was erected originally as a factory of the Sapporo Sugar Company in 1890, and later opened as a museum in July 1987. The building also houses the Sapporo Beer Garden in the south wing. |
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| 34．Historical Village of Hokkaido |
| Historical Village of Hokkaido (北海道開拓の村, Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura) is an open-air museum in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It opened in the Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park in 1983. It includes fifty-two historical structures from the "frontier days" of the Meiji period to the Shōwa period that have been relocated and reconstructed or recreated, divided into four zones: town (with thirty-one buildings), fishing village (four buildings), farming village (fourteen buildings), and mountain village (three buildings).[1][2][3] |
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| 35．Hokkaido University Museum |
| The Hokkaido University Museum (北海道大学総合博物館, Hokkaidō Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. The collection comprises some four million materials, including thirteen thousand type specimens, amassed by Hokkaido University in the hundred and fifty years since the foundation in of its predecessor, the Sapporo Agricultural College, in 1876.[1][2][3] |
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| 36．Hokkaido Museum |
| Hokkaido Museum (北海道博物館, Hokkaidō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2015. Located within Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park, the permanent exhibition is dedicated to the nature, history, and culture of Hokkaido. Also known as Mori-no-Charenga (森のちゃれんが), the museum integrates and replaces the Historical Museum of Hokkaido (北海道開拓記念館), which opened in 1971, and the Hokkaido Ainu Culture Research Centre (北海道立アイヌ民族文化研究センター), which opened in 1994.[1][2][3] |
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| 37．Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe |
| Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe(登別マリンパークニクス, Noboribetsu marinpāku nikusu) is a Japanese public aquarium. located in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the one of largest aquarium in Hokkaido, with several buildings constructed around a Western-style castle building.[4][5] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA)[6] and the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[7] |
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| 38．Hakodate City Museum |
| Hakodate City Museum (市立函館博物館, Shiritsu Hakodate Hakubutsukan) is a museum of history and natural history in Hakodate Park, Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan. The forerunner of the current museum, the Hakodate Provisional Museum, building one, opened in May 1879, the second building in 1884, and the third building (later demolished) in 1891. In 1932 the first building became the Fisheries Pavilion and the second the Indigenous Peoples Pavilion. Legislation to create the current museum was passed in 1948, and the Hakodate City Museum opened in April 1966.[1][2] |
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| 39．Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center |
| Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center (函館市縄文文化交流センター, Hakodate Jōmon Bunka Kōryū Senta—) opened in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2011. It has four exhibition rooms dedicated to the Jōmon period, displaying some 1,200 pieces of earthenware and stoneware excavated in Hakodate as well as the only National Treasure in Hokkaidō, the so-called "Hollow Dogū" (中空土偶), excavated from the Chobonaino Site (著保内野遺跡) (designated in 2007). Hands-on activities, including magatama-making and "angin (編布)-knitting", are also available. The museum is located at Michi no Eki Jōmon Roman Minamikayabe (道の駅縄文ロマン 南かやべ), making this the only roadside station in Japan with a museum with a National Treasure.[1][2][3] |
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| 40．Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples |
| Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples (函館市北方民族資料館, Hakodate-shi Hoppō Minzoku Shiryōkan) first opened as the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples and Ishikawa Takuboku (函館市北方民族・石川啄木資料館) in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989. Located in the former Bank of Japan Hakodate Branch building of 1926, after the transfer out of materials relating to the poet to the Hakodate City Museum of Literature (函館市文学館), the museum reopened in its current guise in April 1993. It displays objects that were formerly part of the collection of the Hakodate City Museum (市立函館博物館), including materials relating to the Orok as well as 750 items used in the daily life of the Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.[1][2] |
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| 100．Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum |
| The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園, Edo Tōkyō Tatemono En, lit. "Edo Tokyo Buildings Garden") in Koganei Park, Tokyo, Japan, is a museum of historic Japanese buildings. The park includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals such as former Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo, out in the open in a park. |
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| 101．Kiyose City Folk Museum |
| The Kiyose City Folk Museum (清瀬市郷土博物館, Kiyose-shi kyōdo hakubutsukan) is a folk museum in Kiyose, Tokyo.[1] It was established in November 1985 and — unlike other municipal museums at the time — the aim was to go beyond the mere display of items and to provide an interactive personal experience.[2] |
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| 102．Keio Rail-Land |
| 35°38′56.72″N 139°24′16.51″E / 35.6490889°N 139.4045861°E / 35.6490889; 139.4045861 Keio Rail-Land (京王れーるランド, Keiō Rēru Rando) is a railway museum located next to Tama-Dōbutsukōen Station on the Keio Dōbutsuen Line in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation. Originally opening in March 2000, the museum was refurbished and expanded with a new outdoor exhibition area in 2013, re-opening on 10 October to mark the 100th anniversary of Keio.[1] |
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| 103．National Hansen's Disease Museum (Japan) |
| The National Hansen's Disease Museum (国立ハンセン病資料館, Kokuritsu Hansen-byō Shiryōkan) is a museum in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan that is dedicated to education about Hansen's disease (leprosy) and to eliminating discriminatory practices against its sufferers. It was formerly (1993–2007) named "His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu Memorial Museum of Hansen's Disease". |
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| 104．Kyōdo-no-Mori |
| Kyōdo-no-Mori or Native Forest (郷土の森博物館, Kyōdo-no-Mori Hakubutsukan) is an open-air folk museum in Fuchū, Tokyo. It features buildings of historical note from various times in Japanese history.[1] |
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| 105．Itabashi Botanical Garden |
| The Itabashi Botanical Garden (東京都板橋区立熱帯環境植物館, Tōkyō-to Itabashi Kuritsu Nettai Kankyō Shokubutsukan, 1,000 m2) is an indoor botanical garden located at 8-29-2 Takashimadaira, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. There is also an aquarium on site.[1]It is open daily except Mondays. It was closed to start renovation work in September 2020 and reopened on April 20, 2021.[2] |
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| 106．Safety Promotion Center |
| The Japan Airlines Safety Promotion Center (日本航空安全啓発センター, Nihon Kōkū Anzai Keihatsu Sentā[1]) is a museum and educational center operated by Japan Airlines to promote airline safety. It is located on the grounds of Tokyo International Airport in Ota, Tokyo, Japan.[1][2] The center estimates that its facility is within two minutes walking distance from the Tokyo Monorail Shin Seibijō Station.[3] |
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| 107．Paper Museum |
| The Paper Museum is a museum about paper in Asukayama Park in Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Its area of focus is the production of Western paper in Japan, which was manufactured there as early as 1873.[1] It is operated by the Paper Museum Public Interest Incorporated Foundation.[2] The museum is in a four-story building. On the first floor, there are lecture halls and libraries. The entrance and first exhibition room are on the second floor, a second exhibition room is on the third floor, and third and fourth exhibition rooms are on the fourth floor. |
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| 108．Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage |
| The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage (東京大空襲・戦災資料センター, Tōkyō Daikūshū Sensai Shiryō Sentā) is a museum in Tokyo, Japan that presents information and artifacts related to the bombing of Tokyo during World War II. The museum opened in 2002 and was renovated in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the bombings.[1] In 2012, the Center presented an exhibition of 700 previously unseen photos from the bombing.[2][3] As of 2022, the center received fewer than 10,000 visitors annually.[4] |
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| 109．Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
| The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (東京都現代美術館, Tōkyō-to Gendai Bijutsukan) is a contemporary art museum in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. The museum is located in Kiba Park. It was opened in 1995. The closest railway station is Kiba Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. 35°40′48″N 139°48′29″E / 35.68000°N 139.80806°E / 35.68000; 139.80806 |
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| 110．Miraikan |
| The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (日本科学未来館, Nippon Kagaku Mirai-kan), simply known as the Miraikan (未来館, literally "Future Museum"), is a museum created by Japan's Science and Technology Agency. It was opened in 2001. It is situated in a purpose-built building in the Odaiba District of Tokyo. It can be reached by the Yurikamome driverless fully automated transit system from downtown Tokyo in about 20 minutes. |
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| 111．Fukagawa Edo Museum |
| The Fukagawa Edo Museum is a museum of old Edo in the former Fukagawa ward (now Kōtō ward) of Tokyo, Japan. It consists of a large, covered, life-size replica of a Tokyo shitamachi neighborhood from around 1840, near the end of the Tokugawa period. It includes 11 buildings: houses, shops, a theater, a boathouse, a tavern, and a fire tower, all built using traditional techniques. Visitors can walk down the streets and enter the shops and houses. The lighting varies over time, to reproduce different times of day.[1][2][3] |
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| 112．Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome |
| The Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome (夢の島熱帯植物館, Yumenoshima Nettai Shokubutsukan), also sometimes called the Yumenoshima Tropical Plant Dome, is a botanical garden located at 3-2, Yumenoshima, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan.[1] It is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association and open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged. |
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| 113．Museum of Maritime Science |
| The Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館, Fune-no-kagakukan) is a marine science museum located in Higashiyashio, Shinagawa, Tokyo on Odaiba island, Japan. Exhibits include Japanese boats, items related to the navy, shipping industry, fishing, sailing, maritime recreation, ship design and building, and the environment of the seas and oceans around Japan.[1][2][3] The museum building itself is modelled after the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. |
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| 114．Hara Museum of Contemporary Art |
| The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (原美術館, Hara Bijutsukan) was one of the oldest contemporary art museums in Japan.[1] The museum was in the Kita-Shinagawa district, in the Shinagawa area of Tokyo. The building was originally built as a private mansion designed by Jin Watanabe in 1938 for the grandfather of current museum president and international collector Toshio Hara.[2][3] Designed in a Bauhaus style, it is a rare example of early Shōwa period architecture .[2] Following the war, it was used by the US and then served as the Embassy of the Philippines and the Embassy of Sri Lanka.[2] In 1979, it was converted to a museum. It underwent a major renovation in 2008, including a new lighting system designed by Shozo Toyohisa.[1] In November 2018, the Foundation Arc-en-Ciel announced that it would be closing the Shinagawa museum in 2020, leaving the Hara Museum ARC in Gunma Prefecture as the foundation's only museum.[4] |
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| 115．Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art |
| The Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art (浮世絵 太田記念美術館, Ukiyo-e Ōta kinen bijutsukan) is a museum that opened in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, in January 1980. It presents rotating exhibitions of Ukiyo-e from Ōta Seizo V's collection of over 12,000 pieces.[1] 35°40′9.9″N 139°42′17.6″E / 35.669417°N 139.704889°E / 35.669417; 139.704889 |
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| 116．Yamatane Museum |
| The Yamatane Museum (山種美術館, Yamatane Bijutsukan) is a museum in Japan specializing in the nihonga style of Japanese watercolour painting. It is run by the Yamatane art foundation. The Yamatane museum was opened in 1966 by the Yamatane art foundation, an organization based on the personal collection of Yamazaki Taneji and the corporate collection of Yamatane securities (now SMBC Friend Securities). There is a long-term exhibition of lesser works, with periodic displays organized. The foundation organizes moving exhibitions of works in their possession. The museum owns famous nihonga paintings including some with "object of national cultural significance" status. The quality of their collection is very high. |
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| 117．Watari Museum of Contemporary Art |
| The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (ワタリウム美術館), commonly referred to as Watari-um, is a museum of contemporary art located in Shibuya, Tokyo. Founded by Shizuko Watari and opened in 1990, the museum is near Gaienmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The institution promotes conceptual art and other non-commercial artists in Japan. It began as a commercial venue known as the Galerie Watari, which showcased a range of artists such as Sol LeWitt and Nam June Paik, as well as famous pop artists Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.[1] |
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| 118．Tobacco and Salt Museum |
| The Tobacco and Salt Museum (Japanese:たばこと塩の博物館) is located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.[1] It was established in 1978 and is run by Japan Tobacco.[2] The museum was originally located in Shibuya but, in 2015, it was relocated to Sumida.[3] The museum has about 38,000 artifacts that show the history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.[2] It holds a 1.4 tonne block of rock salt from Poland along with other blocks of rock salts that have been brought from various parts of world. There is a replica of a Mayan shrine from South America to show where tobacco was first used.[4] |
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| 119．Sumida Aquarium |
| Sumida Aquarium (ja:すみだ水族館, Sumida Suizokukan) is a public aquarium located on the 5th and 6th floors of the Tokyo Skytree in Sumida, Tokyo.[2] It opened in 2012 at the same time as Tokyo Skytree itself. It is managed by ORIX real estate corporation. |
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| 120．Sumo Museum |
| The Sumo Museum (相撲博物館, sumō hakubutsukan) is an institution located in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena in Sumida, Tokyo. The museum is managed by the Japan Sumo Association. The museum was opened in September 1954 when the Kuramae Kokugikan was completed. Its collection were based on materials collected over many years by Tadamasa Sakai, a well known sumo fan and first director of the museum. Its missions are to prevent the loss of materials related to sumo by collecting them and displaying them in the premises of the museum. In January 1985, when the Ryōgoku Kokugikan opened, it moved to its present location.[2] |
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| 121．Edo-Tokyo Museum |
| The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館, Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan) is a historical museum located at 1-4-1 Yokoami, Sumida-Ku, Tokyo in the Ryogoku district.[2] The museum opened in March 1993 to preserve Edo's cultural heritage, and features city models of Edo and Tokyo between 1590 (just prior to the Edo period beginning) and 1964.[3] It was the first museum built dedicated to the history of Tokyo.[4] Some main features of the permanent exhibitions are the life-size replica of the Nihonbashi, which was the bridge leading into Edo; scale models of towns and buildings across the Edo Meiji, and Showa periods; and the Nakamuraza theatre.[5] |
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| 122．Tobu Museum |
| The Tobu Museum (東武博物館, Tōbu Hakubutsukan) is a railway museum in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It opened in May 1989, and is operated by Tobu Railway.[1] The museum was closed from January 2009 until June 2009 for refurbishment.[2] It reopened on 22 July 2009. |
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| 123．Gotoh Museum |
| The Gotoh Museum (五島美術館, Gotō Bijutsukan) is a private museum in the Kaminoge district of Setagaya on the southwest periphery of Tokyo. It was opened in 1960, displaying the private collection of Keita Gotō, chairman of the Tokyu Group. Today's collection is centered on the original selection of classical Japanese and Chinese art such as paintings, writings, crafts and archaeological objects completed by a small selection of Korean arts.[1] It features several objects designated as National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties. The exhibition changes several times per year with special openings in spring and fall. A garden with a tea house, ponds and small Buddhist statues is attached to the museum. |
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| 124．Seikadō Bunko Art Museum |
| Seikadō Bunko Art Museum (静嘉堂文庫美術館) is a museum of East Asian art that opened in Setagaya, Tokyo in 1992.[1] The museum's gallery moved to Meiji Seimei Kan near Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo in October 2022, but the foundation continues to operate and manage its collection in its former building in Setagaya.[2] |
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| 125．Setagaya Art Museum |
| The Setagaya Art Museum (世田谷美術館, Setagaya Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo. The museum, which opened March 30, 1986, houses a permanent gallery and mounts seasonal exhibitions. |
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| 126．National Museum of Nature and Science |
| The National Museum of Nature and Science (国立科学博物館, Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan) is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro. A life-size blue whale model and a steam locomotive are also on display outside. |
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| 127．Shitamachi Museum |
| The Shitamachi Museum (下町風俗資料館, Shitamachi Fūzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, Japan. Located on the shores of Shinobazu Pond within Ueno Park, it is dedicated to the traditional culture of Tokyo's Shitamachi. The museum opened in 1980, six years before the Fukagawa Edo Museum and thirteen years before the Edo-Tokyo Museum, all part of a national trend for building local history museums. All three were primarily designed by Total Media.[1] |
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| 128．Daimyo Clock Museum |
| The Daimyo Clock Museum (大名時計博物館) is a small community-run museum in Yanaka 2-chōme, Tokyo. The museum was established in 1972 to display Japanese clocks from the Edo period collected by Sakujiro (known as "Guro") Kamiguchi (1892–1970).[1][2] |
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| 129．Artizon Museum |
| Artizon Museum Aatizon Bijutukan (アーティゾン美術館), until 2018 Bridgestone Museum of Art (ブリヂストン美術館, Burijisuton Bijutsukan), is an art museum in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The museum was founded in 1952 by the founder of Bridgestone Tire Co., Ishibashi Shojiro (his family name means stone bridge).[2] The museum's collections include Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and twentieth-century art by Japanese, European and American artists, as well as ceramic works from Ancient Greece. The museum was located in the headquarters of the Bridgestone Corporation in Chūō, Tokyo. |
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| 130．Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan |
| The Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan (貨幣博物館, Kahei-hakubutsukan), formally known as the Currency Museum, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan (日本銀行金融研究所貨幣博物館, Nihonginkō-kin'yū-kenkyūjo-kahei-hakubutsukan), is a museum about Japanese currency located in front of the Bank of Japan building in Chūō, Tokyo. |
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| 131．National Film Archive of Japan |
| The National Film Archive of Japan (国立映画アーカイブ, Kokuritsu Eiga Ākaibu) is an independent administrative institution and one of Japan's seven national museums of art which specializes in preserving and exhibiting the film heritage of Japan. In its previous incarnation, it was the National Film Center, which was part of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In April 2018, it became independent of the National Museum of Modern Art and was officially elevated to the rank of a national museum.[1][2] |
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| 132．Mitsui Memorial Museum |
| The Mitsui Memorial Museum (三井記念美術館, Mitsui Kinen Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. It is located within the Mitsui Main Building, an Important Cultural Property as designated by the Japanese government. |
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| 133．Museum of the Imperial Collections |
| The Museum of the Imperial Collections Sannomaru-Shōzōkan (三の丸尚蔵館) is located on the grounds of the East Garden of Tokyo Imperial Palace.[1] It showcases a changing exhibition of a part of the imperial household treasures. |
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| 134．National Showa Memorial Museum |
| The National Showa Memorial Museum (昭和館, Shōwakan) is a national museum in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, managed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The museum is commonly referred to as the "Showakan" and primarily displays items illustrating the lifestyles of the Japanese people during and after World War II (the Shōwa period in the Japanese calendar, the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) from 25 December 1926 until his death on 7 January 1989). |
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| 135．Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo |
| The Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo (三菱一号館美術館, Mitsubishi Ichigōkan Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. |
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| 136．Yūshūkan |
| The Yūshūkan (遊就館, lit. 'Place to commune with a noble soul') is a Japanese military and war museum located within Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo. As a museum maintained by the shrine, which is dedicated to the souls of soldiers who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan including convicted war criminals,[1] the museum contains various artifacts and documents concerning Japanese war casualties and military activity from the start of the Meiji Restoration to the end of World War II. The museum was established in 1882, and describes itself as the first and oldest war and military museum in Japan.[2] It has attracted controversy for its revisionism of Japan's wartime actions and militaristic past.[3][4] |
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| 137．National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty |
| The National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty (Japanese: 領土・主権展示館)[2] is located in the Toranomon Mitsui Building in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and covers Takeshima, Senkaku Islands, and the Northern Territories. It is a museum about Japanese territorial rights issues. |
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| 138．New Otani Art Museum |
| The New Otani Art Museum (ニューオータニ美術館, Nyū Ōtani Bijutsukan) was an art museum founded in 1991 and housed on the sixth floor of the Hotel New Otani Tokyo's Garden Court office building. The Hotel, located in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, opened in 1964 to coincide with the Tokyo Olympic Games. The museum's collections consisted primarily of unique modern art from France and Japan, along with a considerable number of pieces of Japanese ukiyo-e art. |
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| 139．Ancient Orient Museum |
| The Ancient Orient Museum (古代オリエント博物館, Kodai Oriento Hakubutsukan) is a small private museum in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in artifacts of the ancient Near East and Central Asia.[1][2] It has a collection of Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and several works of art pertaining to the art of Palmyra and Persia.[3][4] |
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| 140．Sunshine Aquarium |
| Sunshine Aquarium (サンシャイン水族館, Sanshain suizokukan), formerly known as Sunshine International Aquarium (サンシャイン国際水族館), is a public aquarium located on the top floors and rooftop of the World Import Mart building in Sunshine City, Tokyo, Japan. The aquarium opened in October 1978. It was closed for one year from September 1, 2010 for a full renovation, and reopened on August 4, 2011.[2] It is operated by Sunshine Enterprises, Inc. |
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| 141．Printing Museum, Tokyo |
| The Printing Museum (Japanese: 印刷博物館) is a museum in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is dedicated to the history and techniques of printing, and is located in the head office building of Toppan Printing.[1] 35°42′33.6″N 139°44′29.8″E / 35.709333°N 139.741611°E / 35.709333; 139.741611 |
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| 142．Eisei Bunko Museum |
| The Eisei Bunko Museum (永青文庫, Eisei Bunko) is a museum in Bunkyo-ku district in Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes historical documents and artifacts, and works of fine art. The museum is located what was formerly the grounds of the Hosokawa clan, near the Shin-Edogawa Garden. |
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| 143．The University Museum, The University of Tokyo |
| The University Museum, The University of Tokyo (UMUT) (東京大学総合研究博物館, Tōkyō daigaku sōgō kenkyū hakubutsukan) is a museum in Tokyo, Japan. Although there had been museums affiliated with the University of Tokyo since its establishment in 1877, UMUT was established in 1966 to maintain, organise, and exhibit the vast collection of the university. Today, UMUT works with preservation, research, and exhibitions for the general public.[1] |
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| 144．Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum |
| The Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum (東京都水道歴史館, Tōkyōto suidō rekishikan) is a public museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is the history museum for the development of the freshwater supply and distribution in Tokyo. The museum was opened on 15 April 1995.[1] The museum consists of two exhibition floors and a library on the third floor. It is located in Hongō next to the Hongō Water Supply Station Park. Admission is free.[2] |
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| 145．Tōyō Bunko |
| The Tōyō Bunko (東洋文庫), or Oriental Library, is Japan's largest Asian studies library and one of the world's five largest, located in Tokyo. It also functions as a research institute dedicated to the study of Asian history and culture. It has greatly contributed to the development of Asian Studies through the acquisition of books and other source materials as well as the publication of research by Japanese scholars. Presently, the library contains approximately 950,000 volumes which are cataloged linguistically according to Asian, Western and Japanese language materials.[1] |
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| 146．Bunkyo Museum |
| Bunkyo Museum (文京ふるさと歴史館, Bunkyō furusato rekishikan) is a public museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is the local history museum for the Bunkyō area. The museum was opened in April 1991.[1] The museum has a permanent exhibition and special exhibitions. Since 1994, a newsletter, "Bunkyo Museum News" has been published once per year. In 2021, the museum celebrated its 30 year anniversary. Between 1991 and 2020 the museum has had more than 560,000 visitors. |
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| 147．Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Art Museum |
| Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Art Museum (礫川浮世絵美術館, Koishikawa Ukiyo-e Bijutsukan) is located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Its collection includes ukiyo-e genre paintings from the Edo period, in particular, prints by Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige. Every month the museum changes the ukiyo-e exhibition. This small museum was opened in November 1998. Its aim is to promote understanding of ukiyo-e culture. |
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| 148．Aqua Park Shinagawa |
| Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa (ja: マクセルアクアパーク品川, Makuseru Akua Pāku Shinagawa), formerly Epson Aqua Park Shinagawa, Epson Shinagawa Aqua Stadium is a public aquarium located inside the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Minato, Tokyo. It can be accessed from Shinagawa Station.[11][12] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA).[13] |
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| 149．Ad Museum Tokyo |
| Ad Museum Tokyo (アド・ミュージアム東京, Ado Myuciamu Tokyo) is an advertising museum in Higashi-Shinbashi in the Minato ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the basement of the Caretta Shiodome Building,[1] it is the only museum in Japan dedicated to the promotion of studies in advertising.[2][3] |
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| 150．Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
| 35°39′41″N 139°44′14″E / 35.6612963°N 139.7371973°E / 35.6612963; 139.7371973 The Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (外務省外交史料館, Gaimushō Gaikō Shiryōkan) (formerly Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs[1]) in Tokyo, Japan, is the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of archiving Japan's diplomatic documents.[2][3] |
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| 151．Tokyo Photographic Art Museum |
| 35°38′30″N 139°42′48″E / 35.6417°N 139.7132°E / 35.6417; 139.7132 The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (東京都写真美術館, Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan) is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also has a movie theater. |
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| 152．Japanese Folk Crafts Museum |
| The Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Japanese: 日本民藝館, Hepburn: Nihon Mingeikan) is a museum in Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the hand-crafted art of ordinary people (mingei). Access is from Komaba-Tōdaimae Station of Keio Inokashira Line. The museum was established in 1936 by Yanagi Sōetsu, the founder of the mingei movement; Hamada Shōji succeeded him as its director.[1][2] Yanagi and Hamada officially announced their desire to establish a folk crafts museum in 1926.[3] Construction began on the museum in 1935 and was completed in 1936.[3] |
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| 153．Meguro Parasitological Museum |
| The Meguro Parasitological Museum (Japanese: 目黒寄生虫館, Hepburn: Meguro kiseichūkan) is a small science museum in the Meguro Ward in central Tokyo, Japan. The museum is devoted to parasites and the science of parasitology, and was founded in 1953 by Dr. Satoru Kamegai.[2] |
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| 154．Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| The Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo (目黒区美術館, Meguro-ku Bijutsukan) is an art gallery in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.[1] The building was opened in November 1987. Designed by Nihon Sekkei (日本設計事務所), it is of reinforced concrete construction, with one basement floor and three floors above ground, and has floor space of 4059 square metres.[2] |
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| 155．Tokyo Metro Museum |
| The Tokyo Metro Museum is a railway museum located in Edogawa Ward in Tokyo, Japan. The museum is owned by the Metro Cultural Foundation, a non-profit organization of the Tokyo Metro.[1] It is located a short 100 meters from Kasai Station.[2] Visitors enter the museum through a subway ticket gate, leading to a section of Tokyo’s first underground line between Ueno and Asakusa that opened in 1927 (now a part of the Ginza Line).[3] |
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| 156．Enoshima Aquarium |
| Enoshima Aquarium or New Enoshima Aquarium (新江ノ島水族館, Shin Enoshima Suizokukan) is an public aquarium located on Katase Beach in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its nickname is "Enosui," an abbreviation of the Japanese name. The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[3] |
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| 157．Japanese battleship Mikasa |
| Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defence ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War. |
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| 158．Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History |
| The Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (神奈川県立生命の星・地球博物館, Kanagawa kenritsu seimei no hoshi chikyū hakubutsukan) is a natural history museum in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The museum has an extensive geology section, and focuses on the flora and fauna of Kanagawa prefecture.[1] |
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| 159．Kawasaki Peace Museum |
| Kawasaki Peace Museum (川崎市平和館, Kawasaki-shi Heiwa-kan) is a peace museum that opened in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1992.[1] The permanent display adopts a holistic approach, presenting poverty, hunger, and environmental issues alongside war as barriers to peace.[2] The museum is one of ten institutions that came together in 1994 to establish the Association of Japanese Museums for Peace (日本平和博物館会議).[3] |
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| 160．Toshiba Science Institute |
| Toshiba Science Museum is a science museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. Admission to this museum is free, but reservations are optional if one needs an English speaking guide. |
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| 161．Nihon Minka-en |
| 35°36′36″N 139°33′43″E / 35.609923°N 139.562038°E / 35.609923; 139.562038 Nihon Minka-en (日本民家園) is a park in the Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (生田緑地) of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. On display in the park is a collection of 20 traditional minka (民家) (farm houses) from various areas of Japan, especially thatched-roofed houses from eastern Japan. Of these, nine have received the designation of Important Cultural Assets from the national government. The houses are varied in design, and include examples from regions of heavy snow, lodgings for travellers, and a theatrical stage. Visitors can see regional variety and differences in construction. |
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| 162．Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands |
| The Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands (箱根湿生花園, Hakone Shisseikaen) is a botanical garden located within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park at 817 Sengokuhara, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan.[1] It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was founded in 1976, and now contains some 1700 plant varieties, including about 200 types of woody and herbaceous wetland plants from Japan, as well as 1300 varieties (120 species) of alpine plants.[2] Collections include Habenaria, Hemerocallis, Iris, Lilium, Lysichitum, and Primula, plus deciduous trees such as Acer, Cornus, and Quercus. |
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| 163．Museum of The Little Prince in Hakone |
| The Museum of The Little Prince in Hakone (星の王子さまミュージアム, Hoshi no Ōjisama Myūjiamu) (French: Musée du Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry à Hakone) was a museum in Sengokuhara, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan[1] dedicated to the character in the story The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The museum was opened on June 29, 1999 as part of a worldwide commemorative project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Saint-Exupéry’s birth and closed down permanently on April 1, 2023.[2] In a statement made by the museum, the lack of visitors due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the deterioration of the buildings presented as the reasons for the closure.[3] |
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| 164．CupNoodles Museum Yokohama |
| CupNoodles Museum Yokohama (カップヌードルミュージアム 横浜) is a museum dedicated to instant noodles and Cup Noodles, as well as its creator and founder, Momofuku Ando. Located at Yokohama, the museum feature four stories of exhibitions and attractions. This location includes various exhibits to display the history of instant ramen and Momofuku Ando's story.[1] |
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| 165．Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History |
| 35°26′56.95″N 139°38′10.62″E / 35.4491528°N 139.6362833°E / 35.4491528; 139.6362833 Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History (神奈川県立歴史博物館, Kanagawa Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan) also known as the Yokohama Museum of Cultural History is a history museum in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. |
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| 166．Yokohama Silk Museum |
| The Yokohama Silk Museum is a museum located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan that covers the silk trade in Japan. The museum displays silk kimono and covers the importance of Yokohama as a silk port.[1] The objective of the museum is, according to their website: 35°26′51″N 139°38′43″E / 35.447570°N 139.645337°E / 35.447570; 139.645337 |
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| 167．NYK Maritime Museum |
| The NYK Maritime Museum (日本郵船歴史博物館, Nippon Yūsen Rekishi Hakubutsukan) is a museum in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, dedicated to the maritime history of Japan and of the museum's operator, shipping company Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line"). It was opened in 1993.[1] |
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| 168．Hikawa Maru |
| Hikawa Maru (氷川丸) also known as Cordoba after leased to Nicaraguan shipping company Lloyd Nicaragüense in 1952 is a Japanese ocean liner that Yokohama Dock Company built for Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line"). She was launched on 30 September 1929 and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930.[1] She is permanently berthed as a museum ship at Yamashita Park, Naka-ku, Yokohama. |
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| 169．Museum of Tin Toys |
| Museum of Tin Toys (ブリキのおもちゃ博物館, Buriki no Omocha Hakubutsukan) is a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 35°26′17.93″N 139°39′15.82″E / 35.4383139°N 139.6543944°E / 35.4383139; 139.6543944 |
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| 170．Yokohama Archives of History |
| The Yokohama Archives of History (横浜開港資料館, Yokohama Kaikō Shiryōkan) in Naka ward, central Yokohama, near Yamashita Park, is a repository for archive materials on Japan and its connection with foreign powers since the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853. The archives are next to Kaiko Hiroba (Port Opening Square) where Commodore Perry landed to sign the Convention of Kanagawa.[2] |
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| 171．Yokohama Curry Museum |
| The Yokohama Curry Museum (横濱カレーミュージアム, Yokohama Karē Myūjiamu) was a restaurant and historic museum of curry in the Isezakichō district of the port city of Yokohama, Japan, between 2001 and 2007. Different types of curry were available from a selection or restaurants, ranging from a full meal to a quick taste option. |
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| 172．Kanazawa Bunko |
| Kanazawa Bunko (金沢文庫), formally titled the Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum, is a museum located in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan.[1] It features a collection of traditional Japanese and Chinese art objects, many dating from the Kamakura period.[2] Originally built as a private library, Kanazawa Bunko was one of the two most important centers of learning in medieval Japan, with Ashikaga Gakkō being the other.[3] The library was opened in 1275 by Hōjō Sanetoki (1224–76), a grandson of Hōjō Yoshitoki, second regent of the Kamakura shogunate. The library's collection has not remained intact, although some original documents remain. The existing building, built in 1990, houses the existing collection. |
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| 173．Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden |
| The Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden (横浜市こども植物園, Yokohama-shi Kodomo Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden located at 3-122 Mutsukawa, Minami-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is open most days; an admission fee is charged. The garden was founded in 1979. 35°26′00″N 139°34′38″E / 35.43333°N 139.577265°E / 35.43333; 139.577265 |
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| 174．Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum |
| The Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum (新横浜ラーメン博物館, Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Hakubutsukan) is a food court which opened in 1994, located in the Shin-Yokohama district of Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The "museum" is devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup and features a small recreation of Tokyo in the year 1958, the year instant noodles were invented. Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from Kyushu to Hokkaido. The list includes Ide Shoten, Shinasobaya, Keyaki, Ryushanhai, Hachiya, Fukuchan, and Komurasaki. In 2013, the museum added American restaurant Ikemen Hollywood to their restaurants,[1] and have since decided to close the branch in June 2014.[2] |
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| 175．Nissan Engine Museum |
| The Nissan Engine Museum (日産エンジン博物館, Nissan Enjin Hakubutsukan) is an automobile engine museum run by Nissan Motor Company. The museum is located at the first floor of the guest hall in Yokohama auto plant, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. |
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| 176．Yokohama Science Center |
| Yokohama Science Center (横浜こども科学館, Yokohama Kodomo Kagakukan) is a science museum in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The museum is called Hamagin Space Science Center (はまぎんこども宇宙科学館, Hamagin Kodomo Uchū Kagakukan) under the sponsorship of the Bank of Yokohama. 35°22′37″N 139°35′42″E / 35.377064°N 139.594914°E / 35.377064; 139.594914 |
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| 177．Nagahama Hall |
| Nagahama Hall (長浜ホール) is a concert hall located in the Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Park in Yokohama, Japan. Built in 1952, it has hosted concerts by some of Japan's most successful musicians. In 2008, pianist Atsuko Seta gave a recital in the hall.[1] 35°21′26″N 139°38′12″E / 35.357254°N 139.636729°E / 35.357254; 139.636729 |
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| 178．Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise |
| Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise (横浜・八景島シーパラダイス, Yokohama Hakkeijima Shīparadaisu) is an amusement park consisting of an aquarium, shopping mall, hotel, marina and amusement rides. It is located in Hakkeijima, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. It opened for business on May 8, 1993. It is a pay-as-you-go theme park, having no gates or admission charges. Visitors have the option of buying a day pass or paying for each attraction separately. With 4,770,000 visitors in 2007, it ranks sixth among Asian amusement parks in terms of attendance. |
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| 179．Yokohama History Museum |
| Yokohama History Museum (横浜市歴史博物館, Yokohama-shi Rekishi Hakubutsukan) is a history museum in Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.Its exhibition focuses on the history of the city of Yokohama. 35°33′00.71″N 139°34′41.26″E / 35.5501972°N 139.5781278°E / 35.5501972; 139.5781278 |
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| 206．Ōta-juku Nakasendō Museum |
| Ōta-juku Nakasendō Museum (太田宿中山道会館, Ōta-juku Nakasendō Kaikan) is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Nakasendō's Ōta-juku and is located in the city of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.[1] |
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| 207．Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum |
| The Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum (岐阜関ケ原古戦場記念館, Gifu Sekigahara Kosenjō Kinenkan) opened in Sekigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 2020. It tells the story of the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara and promotes the "charm and fascination" of the battlefield, which has been designated a national Historic Site. The Sekigahara Town History and Folklore Museum (関ケ原町歴史民俗学習館) opened in an adjacent facility on the same day.[1][2][3] |
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| 208．Mizunami Fossil Museum |
| Mizunami Fossil Museum (瑞浪市化石博物館, Mizunami-shi Kaseki Hakubutsukan) is a museum of fossils in Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The museum, which opened in 1974, has a special focus on the palaeoenvironment of the area and on the fossils of the Miocene Mizunami Group [ja].[1] The collection includes some 250,000 fossils, of which around 3,000 are included in the permanent display.[2] |
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| 209．World Freshwater Aquarium Aquatotto Gifu |
| The World Freshwater Aquarium (世界淡水魚園水族館, Sekai tansuigyo en Suizokukan) is a Public aquarium located in Kawashima Kasada-cho, Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is nicknamed Aquatotto Gifu (アクアトト・ぎふ). It is an inland aquarium, opened on July 14, 2004, and is the largest freshwater aquarium in Japan.[1] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[2] |
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| 210．Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum |
| Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum located in Kakamigahara in Gifu Prefecture in Japan. It is at Gifu Air Field of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.[1][2] 35°23′17″N 136°51′41″E / 35.3880°N 136.8615°E / 35.3880; 136.8615 |
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| 211．Cormorant Fishing House |
| The Cormorant Fishing House (鵜飼資料園, Ukai Shiryō-en) is a museum dedicated to Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River and located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In addition to viewing artifacts from the history of cormorant fishing, visitors can also view the cormorants actually used in the process.[1] The museum is run by the cormorant fishing masters, who are Imperial Agents of the Imperial Household Agency. |
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| 212．Gifu City Science Museum |
| The Gifu City Science Museum (岐阜市科学館, Gifu-shi Kagakukan) is a city-supported museum in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was built in 1955 and was moved to its present location and renamed the Gifu City Children's Science Center in 1980. When the planetarium was added in 1988, the name was again changed to the Gifu City Science Museum. There are many hands-on exhibits in the museum. |
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| 213．Gifu City Museum of History |
| The Gifu City Museum of History (岐阜市歴史博物館, Gifu-shi Rekishi Hakubutsukan) is a city-supported history museum located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Located in Gifu Park at the base of Mount Kinka, it is in the heart of Gifu City's sightseeing area. The museum primarily focuses on the history and traditional crafts of the surrounding area and includes a recreation of a Warring States Period free market that was created by Oda Nobunaga, a leading feudal lord of the 16th century, as well as many hands-on exhibits.[1] However, the museum often hosts special exhibitions, which cover a wide variety of themes.[2] |
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| 214．Nawa Insect Museum |
| The Nawa Insect Museum (名和昆虫博物館, Nawa Konchū Hakubutsukan) is a museum in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Nawa Insect Research Center. |
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| 215．Gifu Prefectural Museum |
| Gifu Prefectural Museum (岐阜県博物館, Gifu-ken Hakubutsukan) opened in Seki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, in 1976. The collection and its display relate the natural and culture history of the area.[1][2] |
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| 216．Hikaru Memorial Hall |
| Hikaru Museum (光記念館, Hikaru Kinenkan) is a museum in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, comprising exhibition rooms for fine arts, archaeological research, and history, including exhibitions of artifacts excavated from civilizations across the world and displays of the history of the old Hida Province of Japan. |
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| 217．Hida Minzoku Mura Folk Village |
| Hida Folk Village, Hida no Sato (飛騨民俗村, 飛騨の里, Hida Minzoku Mura, Hida no Sato) is an open-air museum of close to 30 old farmhouses illustrating the traditional architectural styles of the mountainous regions of Japan. Of particular interest are the thatched and shingled roofs, such as the gasshō-zukuri-styled buildings. Many of the buildings were brought from their original sites to preserve them. The village is picturesquely situated on a hillside overlooking the Takayama Valley and surrounding a large pond. It is in the city of Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, about 2.5 km southwest of the train station. |
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| 220．Aichi Museum of Flight |
| 35°14′52″N 136°55′22″E / 35.2477951°N 136.9227184°E / 35.2477951; 136.9227184 Aichi Museum of Flight (あいち航空ミュージアム, aichi-koukuu-myūjiamu) is an aviation museum located in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture. It was set up next to the Airport Walk Nagoya which was renovated from the former international terminal in the southwestern part of Nagoya Airfield.[1] |
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| 221．Insulator Museum |
| The Insulator Museum of the firm NGK Insulators, located in Nagoya, Japan, is the only museum of porcelain insulators in the world.[1][2] The museum contains some unique items, including a "pin insulator for communication" manufactured in 1875 that is believed to be the oldest domestic Japanese insulator.[citation needed] It has "approximately 5,000 pieces of insulators and maintenance tools from 21 countries... and 57 manufacturers."[1] About 300 pieces are on display at any one time.[1] It also has a detailed and informative display on the material, processes and applications. |
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| 222．Toyota Automobile Museum |
| The Toyota Automobile Museum (トヨタ博物館, Toyota Hakubutsukan) is a large museum showcasing Toyota's storied past. It is a large complex located in Nagakute city, a city close to Nagoya, Japan.[1] |
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| 223．Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum |
| The Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum (レトロでんしゃ館, 'Retoro densha-kan) is a museum located in the city of Nisshin, Aichi, Japan. It is owned and operated by the Transportation Bureau of the City of Nagoya. The museum houses a collection of Nagoya's old subway trains and trams. The museum visitors can experience driving Nagoya's present-day subway trains and older models of streetcars using PlayStation-style computer simulator. Model train displays and staff uniforms and caps complement the exhibit. Outside the museum is a giant tunneling shield excavator, which was used to dig Nagoya's subway tunnels. |
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| 224．Meiji-mura |
| Meiji-mura (博物館明治村, Hakubutsukan Meiji-mura, "Meiji Village Museum") is an open-air architectural museum/theme park in Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was opened on March 18, 1965. The museum preserves historic buildings from Japan's Meiji (1867–1912), Taishō (1912–1926), and early Shōwa (1926–1945) periods. Over 60 historical buildings have been moved and reconstructed onto 1 square kilometre (250 acres) of rolling hills alongside Lake Iruka. The most noteworthy building there is the reconstructed main entrance and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Imperial Hotel, which originally stood in Tokyo from 1923 to 1967, when the main structure was demolished to make way for a new, larger version of the hotel.[1] |
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| 225．Little World Museum of Man |
| The Little World Museum of Man (Japanese: リトルワールド, Hepburn: ritoruwārudo) is an open-air museum and amusement park near Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.[1] |
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| 226．Araki Syuseikan Museum |
| The Araki Shuseikan Museum (荒木集成館 Araki Shūseikan) is an art museum located in Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya, central Japan. The collection of Araki Minoru is housed here. The collection includes Japanese ceramics such as Sue wares, teabowls and roof tiles.[1] Archaeological findings at old kilns are also shown. |
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| 227．Sugiyama Jogakuen University |
| Sugiyama Jogakuen University (椙山女学園大学, Sugiyama jogakuen daigaku) is a private women's college in Hoshigaoka in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan, with a subsidiary campus in the city of Nisshin. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1905 as a sewing school, and it was chartered as a university in 1949.[1] |
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| 228．Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology |
| The Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology (産業技術記念館, Sangyo-Gijutsu Kinenkan), also known as Toyota Tecno Museum, is a technology museum located in Nishi-ku in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. |
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| 229．Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium |
| The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium (Japanese: 名古屋港水族館, Hepburn: Nagoyakō Suizokukan) is a public aquarium in Minato-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), and It is the public aquarium with the largest tank capacity and total area in Japan. It also owns Japan's largest dolphin show tank.[2][1] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[6] |
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| 230．Nagoya City Museum |
| The Nagoya City Museum (名古屋市博物館, Nagoya-shi hakubutsukan) is a museum of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The Nagoya City Museum was established in 1977.[1] Its collection includes archaeological materials, fine art, crafts, documents, books and folk materials including samurai armor and weaponry, many of which are put on exhibition. It also owns a collection of rare Kawana ware.[2] |
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| 231．Japan Spinning Top Museum |
| The Japan Spinning Top Museum (日本独楽博物館) is a toy museum located in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. The spinning top, called koma (独楽) was and still is a popular traditional toy in Japan and the Chubu region. The museum has a collection of over 20,000 spinning tops not only from Japan but all over the world, many pieces which are very old. Toys that are sold in dagashiya, which are old-fashioned candy stores, and other traditional toys such as gyroscopes from around the world are also part of the collection. |
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| 232．Brother Museum |
| Brother Museum is a corporate museum located in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by Brother Industries. It opened in March 2005 under the name "Brother Communication Space"[1] and changed its name to the current one in January 2018.[2] The museum is divided into the "Product Zone", which introduces new products and businesses of Brother Industries; the "History Zone", which displays a knitting machine, typewriters, office equipment such as facsimiles and printers, and information and communication devices that were once manufactured by Brother Industries; and the "Sewing Machine Zone", which displays sewing machines collected from around the world.[3] There is also a "Reference Room" with a collection of historical documents and books related to Brother Industries, and a hall that can accommodate 80 people.[3] |
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| 233．Mandolin Melodies Museum |
| Mandolin Melodies Museum (Japanese: マンドリンのおとのはくぶつかん) is a private museum in Nagoya. It is the only museum that specializes specifically in mandolins in the world. |
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| 234．SCMaglev and Railway Park |
| The SCMaglev and Railway Park (リニア・鉄道館 ～夢と想い出のミュージアム～, Rinia Tetsudōkan: Yume to Omoide no Myūjiamu) is a railway museum owned by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in Nagoya, Japan.[1] The museum opened on 14 March 2011.[2] The museum features 39 full-size railway vehicles and one bus exhibit, train cab simulators, and railway model dioramas.[3] |
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| 235．Handa Red Brick Building |
| The Handa Red Brick Building (半田赤レンガ建物, Handa Akarenga Tatemono) is a historic brick warehouse located in Handa City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is certified by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan as one of the Heritage of Industrial Modernization of Japan [ja] sites and plaque locations. The site consists of three buildings: the original main building, a storage building, and a half-timbered building. Before renovations, the inside of the building was open to the public several times a year, but seismic reinforcement work and refurbishing was carried out between 2014 and 2015. Since July 18, 2015, it has been open to the public at all times (excluding New Year's Eve and New Year's Day).[1] |
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| 242．Kyoto Railway Museum |
| The Kyoto Railway Museum (京都鉄道博物館, Kyōto Tetsudō Hakubutsukan) (formerly the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum (梅小路蒸気機関車館, Umekōji Jōkikikansha-kan) until 2016) is a railway museum in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The original Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum opened in 1972, but was expanded and modernized in 2016, becoming the Kyoto Railway Museum. |
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| 243．Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum |
| Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum (京都府立山城郷土資料館) is a regional museum located in Yamashiro District of Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture. Its collections and exhibits cover archeological ruins as well as historical artifacts from south Yamashiro district of Kyoto Prefecture.[1][2] |
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| 244．Nintendo Museum |
| The Nintendo Museum is an upcoming video game museum located in Uji in Kyoto, Japan. This museum is own by video game company, Nintendo, and will display a wide variety of products from the company's history. The museum was first announced in 2021, it will be built at the old Ogura Plant, which Nintendo used this factory to make trading cards, as well as repairing toys and consoles.[1][2] It will featured a new gallery that will "showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history, while focusing on the company's "product development history and philosophy with the public" dating back to its origins.[3][4] Construction on the museum is set to be finished by March 2024, with an opening date to be confirmed at a later date. [5][6] |
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| 245．Ōkōchi Sansō |
| Ōkōchi Sansō (大河内山荘, Ōkōchi Sansō, literally "Okochi Mountain Villa") is the former home and garden of the Japanese jidaigeki (period film) actor Denjirō Ōkōchi in Arashiyama, Kyoto. The villa is open to the public for an admission fee and is known for its gardens and views of the Kyoto area. Several of the buildings are recorded as cultural properties by the national government. |
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| 246．Kyoto Art Center |
| The Kyoto Art Center (京都芸術センター, Kyōto Geijutsu Sentā) is a venue for promoting the arts which is located in the heart of Kyoto, Japan.[1] The center, a three-story reinforced-concrete building, occupies the site of the former Meirin Elementary School (founded by the people of Kyoto during the Meiji era).It has a studio, gallery, auditorium, Japanese-style hall, free space, library, an information corner, Japanese-style tea room, the Maeda Coffee Meirin coffee shop, a common room and shops.Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation manages the center, which aims to support artistic activities, act as a clearinghouse for arts information, plan artist in residence programs and promote artists to the public.In 2008 the north, south and west wings, the gate and wall of the center were registered as one of the Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan. |
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| 247．Kyoto International Manga Museum |
| The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016,[1] with 50,000 volumes of manga that can be accessed and read by visitors and approximately 250,000 items in its closed-stack collection, which can be accessed via a dedicated research room supported by reference facilities.[2] Collected materials include Edo period woodblock prints, pre-war magazines, post-war rental books, and popular modern series from around the world.[1] |
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| 248．Kyoto City Archaeological Museum |
| The Kyoto City Archaeological Museum (京都市考古資料館) is located in Kyoto and showcases the city's archaeological findings. The building was constructed in 1914. A part of its exhibit are replicas of the golden tea utensils of the 16th century Golden Tea Room.[1] Media related to Kyoto City Archaeological Museum at Wikimedia Commons |
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| 249．Kyoto City Library of Historical Documents |
| Kyoto City Library of Historical Documents (京都市歴史資料館, Kyōto-shi rekishi shiryōkan) opened in Kyoto, Japan, in 1982. The museum's collection of over ninety thousand items relevant to the history of Kyoto includes materials relating to the Yase Dōji that have been designated an Important Cultural Property.[1][2][3] |
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| 250．Kyoto Aquarium |
| Kyoto Aquarium(京都水族館) is an aquarium located in Umekoji Park in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture's Shimogyo Ward, Japan. |
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| 251．Kyoto University Museum |
| The Kyoto University Museum (京都大学総合博物館, Kyōto Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Kyōto, Japan, in 2001. It exhibits materials from the collection of some 2,600,000 objects built up by Kyoto University since its foundation as Kyoto Imperial University in 1897. Arranged in accordance with three main themes - natural, cultural, and technological history - the collection includes artefacts excavated from the Yamashina Nishinoyama Kofun (西野山古墓) that have been designated a National Treasure, several Important Cultural Properties, and materials from a number of excavations in China and Korea.[1][2][3] The museum is part of the University Museum Association of Kyoto, a network of fourteen university museums in the city.[4] |
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| 252．Kyoto Botanical Garden |
| The Kyoto Botanical Garden (京都府立植物園, Kyōto Furitsu Shokubutsuen, 240,000 m²), also known as the Kyoto Prefectural Botanical Garden, is a major botanical garden with conservatory located next to the Kamo River, Hangi-cho Simogamo, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is open daily; a general admission fee is charged, and an additional fee is charged for accessing the conservatory. |
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| 253．Museum of Kyoto |
| The Museum of Kyoto (京都文化博物館, Kyōto Bunka Hakubutsukan) is a museum of the history and culture of Kyoto. |
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| 254．Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture |
| The Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture (SAMAC; formerly known as Shigureden (時雨殿)) is a museum in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan, centered on the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu anthology of waka poems compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in the 13th century.[1][2][3][4][5] The museum was founded by former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who invested more than $20 million in the facility.[1] Shigureden's Autumn Shower Palace hall was designed by Nintendo game producer Shigeru Miyamoto.[1] |
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| 255．Yamashina Botanical Research Institute |
| The Yamashina Botanical Research Institute (山科植物資料館) is a research botanical garden specializing in medicinal herbs, operated by Nippon Shinyaku and located at Oyakesaka no tsujicho 39, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. It is open from Monday through Friday; please write ahead for permission to visit. |
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| 256．Kyoto Museum for World Peace |
| The Kyoto Museum for World Peace (立命館大学国際平和ミュージアム, Ritsumeikan Daigaku Kokusai Heiwa Myūjiamu) is part of Ritsumeikan University in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The Museum is accessible to the public for a 400–600 Yen fee. The displays and materials are mostly in Japanese but there is a 25-page English booklet describing the exhibits. The museum is near Kinkaku-ji and just east of the main Ritsumeikan University campus.In 2004 the museum took over the exhibits of the museum that was part of the Young People's Plaza, designed by famous architect Kenzo Tange. |
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| 257．Ryozen Museum of History |
| The Ryozen Museum of History (幕末維新ミュージアム 霊山歴史館, Bakumatsu Ishin Myūjiamu: Ryōzen Rekishikan) is a history museum located in Kyoto, Japan. It specializes in the history of the Bakumatsu period and the Meiji Restoration.[1] The Museum is next to the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine.[1] Official website (in Japanese). |
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| 258．CupNoodles Museum Osaka Ikeda |
| CupNoodles Museum Osaka Ikeda (カップヌードルミュージアム 大阪池田) is a museum dedicated to instant noodles and Cup Noodles, as well as its creator and founder, Momofuku Ando. The museum is located in Ikeda in Osaka, and is located within walking distance of Ikeda Station on the Hankyu-Takarazuka Line. Admission is free.[1] |
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| 259．Botanical Gardens School of Science Osaka Metropolitan University |
| The Botanical Gardens, School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University (大阪公立大学理学部附属植物園, Ōsaka Kouritsu Daigaku Rigakubu Fuzoku Shokubutsuen, 26 hectares) are botanical gardens operated by Osaka Metropolitan University. They are near the Keihan-Kisaichi Station, Katano, Osaka, Japan and open to the public. |
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| 260．Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum |
| Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum (大阪府立近つ飛鳥博物館, Ōsaka Furitsu Chikatsu Asuka Hakubutsukan) is a prefectural museum in Kanan, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan dedicated to the area of Chikatsu Asuka during the Kofun and Asuka periods.[1] The region is first documented in the Kojiki.[2] The Chikatsu Asuka Fudoki-No-Oka Historical Park contains over two hundred burial mounds including four imperial tombs and those of Shōtoku Taishi and Ono no Imoko.[3] The exhibition hall is divided into three sections: (1) Foreign influence during the Kofun and Asuka periods; (2) Kofun and the origins of the ancient realm; and (3) The application of science to cultural heritage.[4] The museum was designed by Tadao Ando and opened in 1994.[5] |
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| 261．Osaka Prefectural Flowers Garden |
| Osaka Prefectural Flowers Garden (大阪府立花の文化園, Osaka-furitsu Hanano-bunkaen) is a botanical garden in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. 34°26′3.4″N 135°33′12.8″E / 34.434278°N 135.553556°E / 34.434278; 135.553556 |
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| 262．Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture |
| The Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture (大阪府立弥生文化博物館, Ōsaku Furitsu Yayoi Bunka Hakubutsukan) is an archaeology museum with a focus on the Yayoi period in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.[2] The museum opened in 1991 at the south end of the Ikegami-Sone Site.[1][2] The permanent displays relate to Yayoi material and spiritual culture more generally as well as to the adjacent archaeological site.[1] |
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| 263．National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) |
| The National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族学博物館, Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsukan) is one of the major museums in Japan.[1] It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences, which was established in 1974 and opened to the public in 1977. It is built on the former grounds of Expo '70 in Suita, Osaka. The founding collection is known as the Attic Collection, and is an early 20th-century ethnological collection of mainly Japanese materials, including some early finds of Jōmon archaeological artifacts (in the Morse Collection). Further collections were brought together for the opening in 1977 and collecting activities have continued since. |
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| 264．Hattori Ryokuchi Arboretum |
| The Hattori Ryokuchi Arboretum (服部緑地都市緑化植物園, Hattori Ryokuchi Toshiryokka Shokubutsuen) is an arboretum located within Hattori Ryokuchi Park at 1-13 Terauchi, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. It is open daily. The arboretum contains bamboo gardens and some 2,500 cherry trees planted across the park, including someiyoshino, yamazakura, and oyamazakura varieties. |
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| 265．Osaka Museum of Natural History |
| Osaka Museum of Natural History (大阪市立自然史博物館, Ōsaka-shi-ritsu Shizen-shi Hakubutsukan) is a museum of natural history in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Ōsaka, Japan. |
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| 266．Nagai Botanical Garden |
| The Nagai Botanical Garden (大阪市立長居植物園, Ōsaka Shiritsu Nagai Shokubutsuen) is a botanical garden in the southeast corner of Nagai Park, Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan. An admission fee is charged. The garden contains the Osaka Museum of Natural History as well as a 1,000 species collection of flowers and trees around a central pond. |
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| 267．Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan |
| The Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan (海遊館, Kaiyūkan, known as the Kaiyukan) is an aquarium located in the ward of Minato in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, near Osaka Bay. When it first opened, it was the largest public aquarium in the world.[7] It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[8] |
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| 268．Tennōji Zoo |
| Tennōji Zoo (天王寺動物園) is a 11-hectare (27-acre) zoo located at Tennōji Park in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan, opened on January 1, 1915. It is the third zoo to be built in Japan and is located southwest of the Shitennō-ji temple, the first Buddhist temple in Japan. |
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| 269．Osaka Science Museum |
| The Osaka Science Museum (大阪市立科学館, Ōsaka Shiritsu Kagakukan) is a science museum in Naka-no-shima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan. The museum is located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, above Osaka's subterranean National Museum of Art. Opened in 1989, the museum was constructed to mark the 100th anniversary of Osaka City. The construction was funded through a 6.5 billion yen donation toward building costs from Kansai Electric. Its theme is "The Universe and Energy". Before the war a similar museum opened in 1937. It was known as the Osaka City Electricity Science Museum and it was both the first science museum and the first planetarium in Japan. |
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| 270．Osaka International Peace Center |
| The Osaka International Peace Center (大阪国際平和センター, Ōsaka-kokusai-heiwa-sentā), also known as Peace Osaka (ピースおおさか, Pīsu-Ōsaka), is a peace museum established in August 1991 based in the city of Osaka, Japan. It focuses on the destruction of the city during World War II and the broader themes of the tragedy of war and the importance of peace. It is funded by Osaka city and Osaka Prefecture.[1] |
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| 271．Osaka Museum of History |
| Osaka Museum of History (大阪歴史博物館, Ōsaka Rekishi Hakubutsukan) opened in Chūō-ku, Ōsaka, Japan in 2001. The project architects were César Pelli & Associates and Nihon Sekkei. It is adjoined by an atrium to the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Center, which was designed by the same architects and built at the same time. The former Osaka City Museum closed earlier the same year. Over four floors, the displays tell the history of the city from the time of the Former Naniwa Palace, located in the area now occupied by the museum. Remains of a warehouse, walls, and water supply facilities for the palace are also on view in the basement.[1][2] In 2005, the collection numbered some 100,000 objects.[3] By 2016, it had grown to 138,595 objects, while a further 17,632 items were on deposit at the museum.[4] |
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| 272．Osaka City Museum |
| Osaka City Museum (大阪市立博物館, Ōsaka Shiritsu Hakubutsukan) is a former museum dedicated to the history of Ōsaka, Japan. Located in the former headquarters of the 4th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army in Osaka Castle Park, the ground floor opened to the public in December 1960, with the special exhibition Momoyama Culture. After completion of the second stage of works, the entire museum opened in November 1962, with the special exhibition Famous Treasures of Osaka. In March 1989, the museum welcomed its 3,200,000th paying visitor. At the end of March 2001, Osaka City Museum permanently closed. Later the same year, the new Osaka Museum of History opened a short distance away.[1] |
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| 273．Sakai City Museum |
| Sakai City Museum (堺市博物館, Sakai-shi Hakubutsukan) is located within Daisen Park, in Sakai-ku, Sakai City, in Osaka Prefecture.The exhibition hall of approx. 1,330 square meters is divided up into areas for ancient times, the middle ages, early modern, and modern times.The museum was opened in 1980, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Sakai’s municipalization.The present (2017-) director of the museum is Ken'ichi Sudo (ex-director and an emeritus professor at the National Museum of Ethnology). Susumu Nakanishi (Emeritus Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies) was a former (2008-2013) director of the museum. |
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| 274．Itami City Museum of Insects |
| Itami City Museum of Insects (Japanese: 伊丹市昆虫館, Itami-shi konchūkan) is an insectarium in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. |
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| 275．Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens |
| The Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens (但馬高原植物園, Tajima Kōgen Shokubutsuen, 17 hectares) are botanical gardens located at 709 Wachi, Muraoka-cho, Mikata-gun, Kami, Hyōgo, Japan. They are open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were established in 1997, and now contain more than 1,000 native plant species, a Katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) that the garden describes as more than 1,000 years old, and water features including a stream, ponds, and swamp. |
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| 276．Harima Historical Museum |
| Harima Historical Museum[1] (播磨町郷土資料館, Harima-machi kyōdo shiryōkan) opened in Harima, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1985.[1] The collection includes excavated artefacts from the nearby Ōnaka Site as well as materials relating to the Befu Railway [ja], discontinued in 1984, and to Joseph Heco.[2] |
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| 277．Banshū Winery |
| Banshū Vineyard (播州葡萄園, Banshū budō-en) was a Meiji period vineyard and winery located in the Inami neighborhood of the town of Inami, in south-central Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2006 with the area under protection expanded in 2007.[1] |
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| 278．Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology |
| Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Archaeology (兵庫県立考古博物館, Hyōgo kenritsu kōko hakubutsukan) opened next to the Ōnaka Site in Harima, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 2007.[1][2] The museum exhibits archaeological finds from all over the prefecture.[2] The collection includes two Important Cultural Properties — assemblages of artefacts excavated from Ikeda Kofun [ja] in Asago[3] and Miidani No.2 Tumulus in Yabu[4] — and a number of Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties.[5] |
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| 279．Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse |
| The Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse (奇跡の星の植物館, Kiseki no Hoshi no Shokubutsukan, 6,700 m2), also known as the Miracle Planet Museum of Plants, is a botanical garden within a greenhouse located at Yumebutai 4 Banchi, Higashiura-cho, Tsuna, Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan. It is open most days; an admission fee is charged. |
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| 280．Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyōgo |
| The Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyōgo (兵庫県立人と自然の博物館, Hyōgo kenritsu hito to shizen no hakubutsukan), sometimes referred to by its abbreviated Japanese name of Hitohaku (ひとはく),[2] is a prefectural museum of natural history in Sanda, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened in 1992.[1] The collection includes many geological and biological specimens.[1] |
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| 281．Kobe Municipal Arboretum |
| The Kobe Municipal Arboretum (神戸市立森林植物園, Kōbe Shiritsu Shinrin Shokubutsuen), also known as the Kobe City Forest Botanical Garden, is a 142.6-hectare botanical garden and arboretum located near Mount Maya at 4-1 Nakaichiri-yama, Shimotanigami, Yamada-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe, Japan. It is operated by the city and open daily except Wednesdays; an admission fee is charged. |
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| 282．Kobe Suma Sea World |
| The Kobe Suma Sea World (神戸須磨シーワールド, Kōbe Suma shīwārudo), formerly known as the Suma Aqualife Park(須磨海浜水族園), is a public aquarium located in Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan. Suma Aqualife Park will be closed on May 31, 2023, privatized, and reopened as Kobe Suma Sea World in June 2024 at its current location. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA). |
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| 283．Kitayama Botanical Garden |
| The Kitayama Botanical Garden (北山緑化植物園, Kitayama Ryokka Shokubutsuen), sometimes called the Nigawa Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden located at 6-14-15 Nigawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. The garden is next to Kabutoyama Forest Park at Mount Kabutoyama, and contains a greenhouse, flower collections, and cherry trees. |
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| 284．Kōko-en |
| Kōko-en (好古園) is a Japanese garden located next to Himeji Castle in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.[1] |
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| 285．Himeji City Tegarayama Botanical Garden |
| The Himeji City Tegarayama Botanical Garden (姫路市立手柄山温室植物園, Himeji Shiritsu Tegarayama Onshitsu Shokubutsuen), also known as the Himeji Tegarayama Green House, is a botanical garden located within a greenhouse in Tegarayama Central Park at 93 Tegara, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan. |
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| 286．Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of History |
| Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of History (兵庫県立歴史博物館, Hyōgo kenritsu rekishi hakubutsukan) opened to the immediate northeast of Himeji Castle in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1983.[1] The collection of over 200,000 items includes one Important Cultural Property — a painting on silk of the parinirvana of the Buddha, dating to the Kamakura period[2] — and five Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties.[3] |
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