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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

Exhibition

Special Exhibition: Kobo Daishi Kukai - Treasures of Koyasan and the Spread of the Faith

An exhibition at the Kyushu National Museum on Kukai, who brought esoteric Buddhism from Tang China, with treasures of Koyasan and of western Japan.

24 Apr – 20 Jun 2027Dazaifu · Fukuoka

Park & Garden

Ikuta Ryokuchi Park

Kawasaki's largest green space, with woodland and wetland, museums, a planetarium and indigo dyeing, plus cherry blossom, irises and autumn foliage in season.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Exhibition

Ise Katagami Tokyo Exhibition

Ise Katagami, an ancient paper-stencil craft for dyeing kimono patterns, is an Important Intangible Cultural Property practiced by only six master artisans.

12–14 Jun 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Poppo no Oka

On a hillside in rural Chiba, about thirty retired railway vehicles are kept on display, from express cars to a mountain cable car and a trolleybus.

Isumi · Chiba

Exhibition

Kimono EXPO Tokyo

A yearly kimono fair in Yurakucho, Tokyo, where weavers and dyers from across Japan show their work and short workshops teach the crafts behind it.

7–12 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Yokai Art Museum

A museum of modern yokai art in the Meiro no Machi quarter of Shodoshima, with more than 800 works tracing yokai from ancient animism to today.

Tonosho · Kagawa

Exhibition

Kimono EXPO Osaka

A yearly kimono fair at Shinsaibashi in Osaka, where weavers and dyers from across Japan show their work and short workshops teach the crafts behind it.

14–18 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOsaka

Museum

Fukui Prefectural Wakasa History Museum

Regional museum in Fukui preserving Wakasa history and folklore, established in 1982 to commemorate the prefecture's 100th anniversary.

Obama · Fukui

Exhibition

Shuga-ten: Shohin Bonsai Fair

Small bonsai up to about 20 cm tall, shown in display seats by members of the Japan Shohin-Bonsai Association, with dealers selling trees, pots and tools.

30 Oct – 1 Nov 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Ueshima Museum

This private art museum in Shibuya occupies a renovated 1989 building on Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen grounds, the former site of the British School in Tokyo.

Tokyo

Museum

Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall Anpanman Museum

Kami City museum on Yanase Takashi, the creator of Anpanman, made up of the Anpanman Museum and a gallery of his covers for the magazine Shi to Meruhen.

Kami · Kochi

Museum

Nasu Teddy Bear Museum

A museum of teddy bears and stuffed toys in Nasu, with the much-travelled Teddy Edward, antique Steiff bears, artist bears and a stuffed toy workshop.

Nasu · Tochigi

Museum

The Hakone Open-Air Museum

Japan's first museum dedicated to sculpture, opened in Hakone, Kanagawa, in 1969, with about 120 works across 70,000 square metres and a Picasso Pavilion.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Museum

Cupnoodles Museum Yokohama

A Yokohama museum on instant noodles and their inventor Momofuku Ando, where visitors design their own Cup Noodle at the My Cup Noodles Factory.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Museum

Odaiba Retro Museum

Hands-on museum in Odaiba, Tokyo, with reconstructed Showa-era streets and shops full of old toys, games and posters that visitors can touch and play with.

Tokyo

Museum

Aizu Bukeyashiki

A museum of samurai life in Aizuwakamatsu, built around a 1975 reconstruction of the house of the Aizu domain elder Saigo Tanomo.

Aizuwakamatsu · Fukushima

Museum

Hayashibara Museum of Art

A private art museum beside Okayama Castle, built on businessman Hayashibara Ichiro's collection and the treasures of the Ikeda daimyo family.

Okayama

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

Exhibition

Special Exhibition: Kobo Daishi Kukai - Treasures of Koyasan and the Spread of the Faith

An exhibition at the Kyushu National Museum on Kukai, who brought esoteric Buddhism from Tang China, with treasures of Koyasan and of western Japan.

24 Apr – 20 Jun 2027Dazaifu · Fukuoka

Park & Garden

Ikuta Ryokuchi Park

Kawasaki's largest green space, with woodland and wetland, museums, a planetarium and indigo dyeing, plus cherry blossom, irises and autumn foliage in season.

Kawasaki · Kanagawa

Exhibition

Ise Katagami Tokyo Exhibition

Ise Katagami, an ancient paper-stencil craft for dyeing kimono patterns, is an Important Intangible Cultural Property practiced by only six master artisans.

12–14 Jun 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Poppo no Oka

On a hillside in rural Chiba, about thirty retired railway vehicles are kept on display, from express cars to a mountain cable car and a trolleybus.

Isumi · Chiba

Exhibition

Kimono EXPO Tokyo

A yearly kimono fair in Yurakucho, Tokyo, where weavers and dyers from across Japan show their work and short workshops teach the crafts behind it.

7–12 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Yokai Art Museum

A museum of modern yokai art in the Meiro no Machi quarter of Shodoshima, with more than 800 works tracing yokai from ancient animism to today.

Tonosho · Kagawa

Exhibition

Kimono EXPO Osaka

A yearly kimono fair at Shinsaibashi in Osaka, where weavers and dyers from across Japan show their work and short workshops teach the crafts behind it.

14–18 Oct 2027Exact date not confirmed yetOsaka

Museum

Fukui Prefectural Wakasa History Museum

Regional museum in Fukui preserving Wakasa history and folklore, established in 1982 to commemorate the prefecture's 100th anniversary.

Obama · Fukui

Exhibition

Shuga-ten: Shohin Bonsai Fair

Small bonsai up to about 20 cm tall, shown in display seats by members of the Japan Shohin-Bonsai Association, with dealers selling trees, pots and tools.

30 Oct – 1 Nov 2027Exact date not confirmed yetTokyo

Museum

Ueshima Museum

This private art museum in Shibuya occupies a renovated 1989 building on Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen grounds, the former site of the British School in Tokyo.

Tokyo

Museum

Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall Anpanman Museum

Kami City museum on Yanase Takashi, the creator of Anpanman, made up of the Anpanman Museum and a gallery of his covers for the magazine Shi to Meruhen.

Kami · Kochi

Museum

Nasu Teddy Bear Museum

A museum of teddy bears and stuffed toys in Nasu, with the much-travelled Teddy Edward, antique Steiff bears, artist bears and a stuffed toy workshop.

Nasu · Tochigi

Museum

The Hakone Open-Air Museum

Japan's first museum dedicated to sculpture, opened in Hakone, Kanagawa, in 1969, with about 120 works across 70,000 square metres and a Picasso Pavilion.

Hakone · Kanagawa

Museum

Cupnoodles Museum Yokohama

A Yokohama museum on instant noodles and their inventor Momofuku Ando, where visitors design their own Cup Noodle at the My Cup Noodles Factory.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Museum

Odaiba Retro Museum

Hands-on museum in Odaiba, Tokyo, with reconstructed Showa-era streets and shops full of old toys, games and posters that visitors can touch and play with.

Tokyo

Museum

Aizu Bukeyashiki

A museum of samurai life in Aizuwakamatsu, built around a 1975 reconstruction of the house of the Aizu domain elder Saigo Tanomo.

Aizuwakamatsu · Fukushima

Museum

Hayashibara Museum of Art

A private art museum beside Okayama Castle, built on businessman Hayashibara Ichiro's collection and the treasures of the Ikeda daimyo family.

Okayama

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