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Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore
A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.
Toyama Memorial Museum
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.
Sakitama Burial Mounds
A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.
Kadokawa Culture Museum
Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
SKIP City Visual Museum
A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.
Saitama Museum of Rivers
Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
Honjo Waseda Museum
Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.
RIKEN Wako Campus
RIKEN in Wako. It has large research facilities such as accelerators.