Museums in Japan: profiles, services and practical information.
Aso Volcano Museum is an entry point to understanding a landscape that, from the viewpoint, can look like a sequence of grasslands and mountains. Its exhibits explain th…
View profile →The Sumo Museum occupies a gallery on the first floor of Ryogoku Kokugikan and offers a compact introduction to a sport that is also ceremony, archive and tradition. The…
View profile →Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum brings together documents, photographs, personal belongings and testimony to explain the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945, and its conseq…
View profile →Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum stands in Katsuyama, an inland city that has become one of Japan’s best-known centres for palaeontology. The visit centres on fossils,…
View profile →Dejima began as an artificial island in Nagasaki harbour and for centuries concentrated a significant part of Japan’s contact with Europe. The site was completed in 1636…
View profile →On the Minami-Yamate hillside above the harbour, Glover Garden gathers Western-style residences that recall Nagasaki’s opening to international trade in the nineteenth c…
View profile →Inside Umekoji Park, Kyoto Aquarium builds its route from Japanese rivers toward the sea, in a city more often associated with temples than aquatic life. The Japanese gi…
View profile →In Umekoji, a short distance from Kyoto Station, the Railway Museum puts real locomotives at the centre of a visit combining history, engineering and play. The collectio…
View profile →On the hillside above Atami and Sagami Bay, the MOA Museum of Art brings collection and architecture together in a visit that begins before the galleries: the bus climbs…
View profile →At the heart of Minato Mirai, the Yokohama Museum of Art’s symmetrical stone façade introduces a building designed by Kenzo Tange to open itself to the city, not simply…
View profile →In the port district of Shinko, where former brick warehouses meet the Minato Mirai waterfront, the CUPNOODLES MUSEUM turns an everyday food into a story of invention. T…
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The red, curving building beside Aomori Station introduces a story the city lives every August. WA RASSE preserves and explains the Nebuta Festival, known for huge illum…
View profile →The Stained Glass Museum is part of Otaru Art Base and occupies two buildings linked to the port city’s commercial past: the Takahashi Warehouse and the former Arata fir…
View profile →The former Bank of Japan Otaru Branch opened in 1912 and now keeps its rooms as a free financial museum. The building was designed by Kingo Tatsuno and Uheiji Nagano, ar…
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