Museums

From the national collections to one-room obsessions.

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Ryogoku 両国
- Sumida Hokusai Museumすみだ北斎美術館
  
  The Great Wave’s painter, shown in the neighbourhood where he actually lived.
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- Japanese Sword Museum刀剣博物館
  
  A thousand years of blades — national treasures among them — in quiet, gleaming rows.
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- Edo-Tokyo Museum江戸東京博物館
  
  Tokyo’s museum of its own history, open again since March 2026 after four years of works — the Oedo line named this stop after it.
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Tokyo 東京
- Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum三菱一号館美術館
  
  19th-century art in a rebuilt 1894 red-brick office — Conder’s Marunouchi, back on its corner.
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- Tokyo Station Gallery東京ステーションギャラリー
  
  A museum inside the station’s north dome since 1988, hung on the building’s own structural brick left uncovered.
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- Intermediathequeインターメディアテク
  
  Two floors of University of Tokyo specimens and old teaching instruments installed inside KITTE, free to enter.
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Ueno 上野
- Shitamachi Museum下町ミュージアム
  
  Walk-through recreations of old working-class Tokyo, alley and tenement included.
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- Tokyo National Museum東京国立博物館
  
  120,000 works of Japanese and Asian art — the country’s oldest and greatest museum.
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- National Museum of Nature and Science国立科学博物館
  
  Dinosaurs to space under one roof — the blue whale outside marks the door.
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Kyobashi 京橋
- Artizon Museumアーティゾン美術館
  
  The Bridgestone collection reborn — Impressionists to the present in a light-filled tower.
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- National Film Archive of Japan国立映画アーカイブ
  
  The nation’s film vault — exhibitions upstairs, rare prints screening below.
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Mitsukoshimae 三越前
- Bank of Japan & Currency Museum日本銀行・貨幣博物館
  
  The 1896 bank headquarters, with Japan’s money history told next door.
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- Mitsui Memorial Museum三井記念美術館
  
  Six national treasures from 350 years of the Mitsui house, shown inside their landmark bank.
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Omote-sando 表参道
- Nezu Museum根津美術館
  
  National-treasure Asian art behind a Kengo Kuma facade, with a garden worth the ticket alone.
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- Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum岡本太郎記念館
  
  The “art is an explosion” artist’s studio-home, left as he worked in it.
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Roppongi 六本木
- Roppongi Hills六本木ヒルズ
  
  Mori Tower’s 250m Tokyo City View, the Mori Art Museum, and the giant Maman spider below.
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- Tokyo Midtown東京ミッドタウン
  
  Galleria shopping, the Suntory Museum of Art, and a park that blooms in spring.
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Ebisu 恵比寿
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum東京都写真美術館
  
  Japan’s house of photography, inside Yebisu Garden Place — with a proper art-film cinema.
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Hon-Kawagoe 本川越
- Kawagoe Festival Museum川越まつり会館
  
  The UNESCO-listed Kawagoe Festival kept indoors year-round — two real floats on rotating display, with live ohayashi performances.
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Ikebukuro 池袋
- Anime Tokyo Stationアニメ東京ステーション
  
  A free three-floor showcase of anime art, archives and rotating exhibitions.
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Keikyu Kawasaki 京急川崎
- Tokaido Kawasaki-shuku Koryukan東海道かわさき宿交流館
  
  Kawasaki-juku was one of the fifty-three Tokaido post stations, founded in 1623; the city kept its four-hundredth year in 2023. Almost none of it is left standing — the wartime raids took the buildings and burned most of the paper record with them. Kawasaki opened this centre in October 2013 to hold what survived, in two small exhibition rooms on the second and third floors. It stands on the old road itself, which is what makes the walk worth taking.
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Kiyosumi-shirakawa 清澄白河
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo東京都現代美術館
  
  MOT — six thousand works of art since 1945, at the end of the gallery district it seeded.
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Korakuen 後楽園
- Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum野球殿堂博物館
  
  Japan’s first museum given to baseball alone, open since 1959 and inside the Tokyo Dome since 1988.
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Meiji-jingumae 明治神宮前
- Ota Memorial Museum of Art太田記念美術館
  
  Fifteen thousand ukiyo-e — Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi a lane off Takeshita-dori.
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Nijubashimae 二重橋前
- Seikado Bunko Art Museum静嘉堂文庫美術館
  
  The Mitsubishi collection facing the palace moat — one of only three Yohen Tenmoku bowls on earth.
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Shirokanedai 白金台
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum東京都庭園美術館
  
  An Art Deco prince’s residence of 1933, showing art in the rooms it was built to grace.
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Takebashi 竹橋
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo東京国立近代美術館
  
  MOMAT — Japan’s modern century in 14,000 works, across from the palace woods.
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