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Uenohara site

Jomon-period site on a plateau above Kagoshima Bay, with a village of pit dwellings from about 10,600 years ago, now a 36-hectare park and museum.

Kirishima · Kagoshima

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Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum

A museum in Yamanashi on painter Hirayama Ikuo's journeys along the Silk Road, made to trace the origins of Japanese culture and the transmission of Buddhism.

Hokuto · Yamanashi

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Shijimizuka site

A Jomon-period village site and National Historic Site in Hamamatsu, with shell middens, house sites and graves from about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago.

Hamamatsu · Shizuoka

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Morioka History and Culture Museum

Museum opened 2011 within Morioka Castle Ruins Park, treating the historic fort grounds as its primary exhibit while promoting the surrounding castle-town area.

Morioka · Iwate

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Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum

A museum of netsuke, the small carved toggles once worn with kimono, in a Kyoto City designated house of 1820 in Mibu, with a new themed exhibition each month.

Kyoto

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Sado Island Gold Mine

The Aikawa Gold and Silver Mine on Sado Island operated for nearly four centuries as a key pillar of the Tokugawa shogunate's finances.

Sado · Niigata

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Art Aquarium Museum Ginza

A permanent goldfish art museum in Ginza Mitsukoshi, with tanks modelled on shrine approaches, lanterns and traditional crafts, set in light and scent.

Tokyo

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Hokusai-kan

This museum in Obuse, Nagano, is dedicated to Katsushika Hokusai and holds the festival float ceilings he painted in the town in his last years.

Obuse · Nagano

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Akita Senshu Museum of Art

The city art museum of Akita, holding Akita Ranga painting of the late Edo period and a memorial hall for the painter Okada Kenzo.

Akita

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Tomioka Silk Mill

A model silk mill opened by the Meiji government in 1872, its brick buildings almost all intact, with three buildings designated National Treasures.

Tomioka · Gunma

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Museum of the Meiji Restoration

A Kagoshima City museum in Kajiyacho on Satsuma at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, with robot dramas and hands-on exhibits.

Kagoshima

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Tokugawa Art Museum

Opened in 1935, the museum holds over 10,000 works of the Owari Tokugawa family, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls.

Nagoya · Aichi

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Mizuki Shigeru Museum

Museum on the life and work of manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, with a yokai cave and his original drawings on show.

Sakaiminato · Tottori

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Eizo & Toichi Kato Memorial Art Museum

A museum in Gifu Park dedicated to the Nihonga painter brothers Eizo and Toichi Kato, holding about 3,500 of their drawings and 200 of their paintings.

Gifu

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Kadokawa Culture Museum

Five-story cultural complex featuring museums, galleries, libraries, and exhibition spaces presenting both mainstream and popular culture.

Tokorozawa · Saitama

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Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum

A museum of antique music boxes and automatic musical instruments by Lake Kawaguchiko, with daily concerts, a garden and a music box workshop.

Fujikawaguchiko · Yamanashi

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National Museum of Nature and Science

A national museum of natural history and science in Ueno Park, with a 1931 gallery building that is an Important Cultural Property and a floor of dinosaurs.

Tokyo

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Amakusa Shiro Museum

A Kamiamakusa museum about the Shimabara-Amakusa Uprising and Amakusa Shiro, the sixteen-year-old who led it, told through documents and film.

Kamiamakusa · Kumamoto

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Uenohara site

Jomon-period site on a plateau above Kagoshima Bay, with a village of pit dwellings from about 10,600 years ago, now a 36-hectare park and museum.

Kirishima · Kagoshima

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Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum

A museum in Yamanashi on painter Hirayama Ikuo's journeys along the Silk Road, made to trace the origins of Japanese culture and the transmission of Buddhism.

Hokuto · Yamanashi

Museum

Shijimizuka site

A Jomon-period village site and National Historic Site in Hamamatsu, with shell middens, house sites and graves from about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago.

Hamamatsu · Shizuoka

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Morioka History and Culture Museum

Museum opened 2011 within Morioka Castle Ruins Park, treating the historic fort grounds as its primary exhibit while promoting the surrounding castle-town area.

Morioka · Iwate

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Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum

A museum of netsuke, the small carved toggles once worn with kimono, in a Kyoto City designated house of 1820 in Mibu, with a new themed exhibition each month.

Kyoto

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Sado Island Gold Mine

The Aikawa Gold and Silver Mine on Sado Island operated for nearly four centuries as a key pillar of the Tokugawa shogunate's finances.

Sado · Niigata

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Art Aquarium Museum Ginza

A permanent goldfish art museum in Ginza Mitsukoshi, with tanks modelled on shrine approaches, lanterns and traditional crafts, set in light and scent.

Tokyo

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Hokusai-kan

This museum in Obuse, Nagano, is dedicated to Katsushika Hokusai and holds the festival float ceilings he painted in the town in his last years.

Obuse · Nagano

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Akita Senshu Museum of Art

The city art museum of Akita, holding Akita Ranga painting of the late Edo period and a memorial hall for the painter Okada Kenzo.

Akita

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Tomioka Silk Mill

A model silk mill opened by the Meiji government in 1872, its brick buildings almost all intact, with three buildings designated National Treasures.

Tomioka · Gunma

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Museum of the Meiji Restoration

A Kagoshima City museum in Kajiyacho on Satsuma at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, with robot dramas and hands-on exhibits.

Kagoshima

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Tokugawa Art Museum

Opened in 1935, the museum holds over 10,000 works of the Owari Tokugawa family, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls.

Nagoya · Aichi

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Mizuki Shigeru Museum

Museum on the life and work of manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, with a yokai cave and his original drawings on show.

Sakaiminato · Tottori

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Eizo & Toichi Kato Memorial Art Museum

A museum in Gifu Park dedicated to the Nihonga painter brothers Eizo and Toichi Kato, holding about 3,500 of their drawings and 200 of their paintings.

Gifu

Museum

Kadokawa Culture Museum

Five-story cultural complex featuring museums, galleries, libraries, and exhibition spaces presenting both mainstream and popular culture.

Tokorozawa · Saitama

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Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum

A museum of antique music boxes and automatic musical instruments by Lake Kawaguchiko, with daily concerts, a garden and a music box workshop.

Fujikawaguchiko · Yamanashi

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National Museum of Nature and Science

A national museum of natural history and science in Ueno Park, with a 1931 gallery building that is an Important Cultural Property and a floor of dinosaurs.

Tokyo

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Amakusa Shiro Museum

A Kamiamakusa museum about the Shimabara-Amakusa Uprising and Amakusa Shiro, the sixteen-year-old who led it, told through documents and film.

Kamiamakusa · Kumamoto

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