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Edo-Tokyo Museum

Museum featuring full-scale reconstructions of Edo period buildings including traditional merchant houses, samurai residences, and street scenes.

Tokyo

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SMALL WORLDS Miniature Museum

Asia's largest miniature museum spanning 7,000 square meters with eight distinct themed areas featuring handcrafted miniature worlds and settings.

Tokyo

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Fukushima Prefectural Museum

Regional museum presenting Fukushima Prefecture's history, traditional arts and crafts, local customs, and the natural heritage of the area.

Aizuwakamatsu · Fukushima

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Museum

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Museum featuring full-scale reconstructions of Edo period buildings including traditional merchant houses, samurai residences, and street scenes.

Tokyo

Museum

SMALL WORLDS Miniature Museum

Asia's largest miniature museum spanning 7,000 square meters with eight distinct themed areas featuring handcrafted miniature worlds and settings.

Tokyo

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Fukushima Prefectural Museum

Regional museum presenting Fukushima Prefecture's history, traditional arts and crafts, local customs, and the natural heritage of the area.

Aizuwakamatsu · Fukushima

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Kyoto International Manga Museum

Founded in 2003, this museum houses 300,000 manga items from Edo-period prints to contemporary series, with permanent exhibitions and workshops on manga's cultural evolution.

Kyoto

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Ino Paper Museum

Museum dedicated to traditional Japanese papermaking featuring displays of techniques, history, and opportunities to create paper yourself.

Ino · Kochi

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Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Museum showcasing Studio Ghibli's animation history through permanent exhibitions of techniques and artifacts, designed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Tokyo

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Nima Sand Museum

This museum displays sand artworks and hourglasses in pyramid glass buildings, featuring a 5.2-meter tall 1-year-long hourglass that visitors ceremonially flip on New Year's Eve.

Oda · Shimane

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Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum

This museum celebrates Japanese painter Hirayama Ikuo's spiritual journeys along the Silk Road, which he explored to trace the origins of Japanese culture and Buddhism's transmission.

Hokuto · Yamanashi

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Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum

Opened in 1994 as the world's first ramen-themed food amusement park, this museum gathers famous ramen shops from across Japan in a single location.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

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Teshima Art Museum

Built by artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, this water-droplet-shaped museum on Teshima Island contains a pillar-free interior space integrated with wind, light and sound.

Tonosho · Kagawa

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Tokugawa Art Museum

Tokugawa Art Museum houses the Owari Tokugawa Family's 10,000+ artworks, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls, opened in 1935.

Nagoya · Aichi

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Miho Museum

Miho Museum houses 3,000 Asian and Western antiques in a design by I. M. Pei, with 75 percent of the space underground and featuring a glass roof with French limestone walls.

Koka · Shiga

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Hakushika Memorial Museum of Sake

Located in Nishinomiya within Nadagogo, Japan's largest sake brewing region, the museum opened in 1982 to preserve traditional sake-making heritage dating to the Edo period.

Nishinomiya · Hyogo

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Tottori Sand Museum

The world's only sand museum, Tottori Sand Museum features sculptures by international artists near the Sand Dunes, offering interactive exhibits and sand sculpting classes.

Tottori

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Amakusa Christian Museum

Amakusa Christian Museum documents the Amakusa and Shimabara Uprising, led by sixteen-year-old Shiro Amakusa, highlighting the era's Nanban cultural influence and featuring a love bell.

Kamiamakusa · Kumamoto

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Haneji Dam Museum

The Haneji Dam Museum uses five philosophical elements to showcase Okinawa's water culture, ecosystem, heritage, traditions, dam technology, and water's spiritual significance.

Nago · Okinawa

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Akita Museum of Art

Akita Museum of Art displays Japanese and international contemporary art, traditional works, and sculptures, with an outdoor sculpture park and rotating special exhibitions.

Akita

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Museum of Fine Arts

An art museum established in 1982 holding significant works by Gifu Prefecture-associated artists and international painters, with permanent and special exhibitions.

Gifu