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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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Amakusa Christian Museum

Run by Amakusa City since 1966, the museum tells the story of Christianity in Amakusa and the Shimabara-Amakusa Uprising led by Amakusa Shiro, aged sixteen.

Amakusa · Kumamoto

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Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Japan's national science museum in Odaiba, run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, with permanent exhibitions, the Geo-Cosmos globe and a dome theater.

Tokyo

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Edo-Tokyo Museum

Tokyo's museum of the history of Edo and Tokyo, reopened in 2026 after renovation, with full-size reconstructions and scale models from Edo to today.

Tokyo

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Tokushima Castle Museum

The city museum on the site of Tokushima Castle's palace, telling the story of the Tokushima Domain and the Hachisuka family who ruled it.

Tokushima

Park & Garden

Naritasan Park

A garden of 165,000 square metres behind the main hall of Naritasan Shinshoji, with three ponds, a waterfall, poem stones and a calligraphy museum.

Narita · Chiba

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Miho Museum

A museum of 1997 in the mountains of Shiga, designed by I. M. Pei and mostly buried in the hillside, holding ancient art of the world alongside Japanese art.

Koka · Shiga

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Higashisonogi Town History and Folklore Museum

A local museum in a park built around Hisagozuka, one of the largest burial mounds in Nagasaki, covering the area from the stone age to the Edo road.

Higashisonogi · Nagasaki

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Murakami Kaizoku Museum

A museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.

Imabari · Ehime

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Ikazaki Kite Museum

A museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.

Uchiko · Ehime

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Railway History Park in Saijo

A railway museum beside Iyo-Saijo station holding an original bullet train car and the diesel locomotive that worked the lines of Shikoku.

Saijo · Ehime

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Tokaido Kawasaki Shuku Koryukan

A small, free museum near Kawasaki Station on the history of Kawasaki Shuku, the Edo-period post town on the old Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

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NYK Hikawa Maru

A passenger-cargo liner built in 1930 for the Seattle route, a hospital ship in the war and now a museum ship and Important Cultural Property in Yokohama.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

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Bansei Tokko Peace Museum

A museum in Minamisatsuma on the site of Bansei Airfield, the army's last airfield of WWII, with the letters, photographs and belongings of 201 airmen.

Minamisatsuma · Kagoshima

Area & Points of Interest

Okunoshima (Rabbit Island)

A small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.

Takehara · Hiroshima

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Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

The restored 1905 residence of the commander of the Kure naval district, with rare gilded leather paper on its walls, and a naval arsenal clock tower.

Kure · Hiroshima

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Kamihaga Residence (Wax Museum)

The house and works of a wax-making family in Uchiko, Ehime, kept with its boiling sheds and stores, and now a museum of the trade.

Uchiko · Ehime

Museum

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

An art museum established in 1986 that houses a Rodin Wing featuring works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, including The Gates of Hell.

Shizuoka

Museum

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

Museum

Amakusa Christian Museum

Run by Amakusa City since 1966, the museum tells the story of Christianity in Amakusa and the Shimabara-Amakusa Uprising led by Amakusa Shiro, aged sixteen.

Amakusa · Kumamoto

Museum

Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Japan's national science museum in Odaiba, run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, with permanent exhibitions, the Geo-Cosmos globe and a dome theater.

Tokyo

Museum

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Tokyo's museum of the history of Edo and Tokyo, reopened in 2026 after renovation, with full-size reconstructions and scale models from Edo to today.

Tokyo

Museum

Tokushima Castle Museum

The city museum on the site of Tokushima Castle's palace, telling the story of the Tokushima Domain and the Hachisuka family who ruled it.

Tokushima

Park & Garden

Naritasan Park

A garden of 165,000 square metres behind the main hall of Naritasan Shinshoji, with three ponds, a waterfall, poem stones and a calligraphy museum.

Narita · Chiba

Museum

Miho Museum

A museum of 1997 in the mountains of Shiga, designed by I. M. Pei and mostly buried in the hillside, holding ancient art of the world alongside Japanese art.

Koka · Shiga

Museum

Higashisonogi Town History and Folklore Museum

A local museum in a park built around Hisagozuka, one of the largest burial mounds in Nagasaki, covering the area from the stone age to the Edo road.

Higashisonogi · Nagasaki

Museum

Murakami Kaizoku Museum

A museum on Oshima in the Inland Sea about the Murakami, the sea lords who controlled the straits around Imabari in the sixteenth century.

Imabari · Ehime

Museum

Ikazaki Kite Museum

A museum in Uchiko, Ehime, devoted to kites from Japan and around the world, in the town that holds a kite battle every May.

Uchiko · Ehime

Museum

Railway History Park in Saijo

A railway museum beside Iyo-Saijo station holding an original bullet train car and the diesel locomotive that worked the lines of Shikoku.

Saijo · Ehime

Museum

Tokaido Kawasaki Shuku Koryukan

A small, free museum near Kawasaki Station on the history of Kawasaki Shuku, the Edo-period post town on the old Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Museum

NYK Hikawa Maru

A passenger-cargo liner built in 1930 for the Seattle route, a hospital ship in the war and now a museum ship and Important Cultural Property in Yokohama.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Museum

Bansei Tokko Peace Museum

A museum in Minamisatsuma on the site of Bansei Airfield, the army's last airfield of WWII, with the letters, photographs and belongings of 201 airmen.

Minamisatsuma · Kagoshima

Area & Points of Interest

Okunoshima (Rabbit Island)

A small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Museum

Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

The restored 1905 residence of the commander of the Kure naval district, with rare gilded leather paper on its walls, and a naval arsenal clock tower.

Kure · Hiroshima

Museum

Kamihaga Residence (Wax Museum)

The house and works of a wax-making family in Uchiko, Ehime, kept with its boiling sheds and stores, and now a museum of the trade.

Uchiko · Ehime

Museum

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

An art museum established in 1986 that houses a Rodin Wing featuring works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, including The Gates of Hell.

Shizuoka

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