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Sakitama Burial Mounds
A sword inlaid with 115 gold characters - the single most important written object of fifth-century Japan.
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Kadokawa Culture Museum
Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
SaitamaMuseumsKawaguchi
SKIP City Visual Museum
A museum where visitors make images rather than only watch them, and home to an international film festival.
SaitamaMuseumsYorii
Saitama Museum of Rivers
Home to one of Japan's largest wooden waterwheels, telling the land's story through its rivers.
SaitamaMuseumsTokorozawa
Tokorozawa Aviation Museum
On the site of Japan's first airfield, tracing how aircraft form changed through real machines.
SaitamaMuseumsHonjō
Honjo Waseda Museum
Jointly run by a university and a city, sharing the work of storage and display.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Kasori Shell Mounds
Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
ChibaMuseumsSakura
National Museum of Japanese History
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.
ChibaMuseumsShibayama
Shibayama Haniwa Museum
A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.
ChibaMuseumsTateyama
Tateyama City Museum
On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.
ChibaMuseumsMatsudo
Tojo History Museum
Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.
ChibaMuseumsFunabashi
Tobinodai Museum
Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.
ChibaMuseumsUrayasu
Urayasu City Museum
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.
TokyoMuseumsTaito
Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest museum and holder of the most National Treasures; its buildings alone span Meiji to the present.
TokyoMuseumsTaito
Gallery of Horyuji Treasures
Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.
TokyoMuseumsChiyoda
Museum of the Imperial Collections
The imperial collection, including Jakuchu's thirty bird-and-flower scrolls - the outer limit of precision in Japanese painting.
TokyoMuseumsChuo
National Film Archive of Japan
Japan's only national film institution, restoring near-lost prints to projectable condition.
TokyoMuseumsBunkyo
Toyo Bunko Museum
A million volumes of Asian studies; its centrepiece is a two-storey wall of books, the Morrison Library.
TokyoMuseumsBunkyo
Printing Museum
On the history of reproducing text, with a working letterpress studio visitors can use.
TokyoMuseumsSumida
Edo-Tokyo Museum
A raised structure like a storehouse on stilts, showing the city's memory at full scale, including a life-size Nihonbashi; after about four years of major renovation, it reopened on March 31, 2026.
TokyoMuseumsKoto
Fukagawa Edo Museum
A block of 1840s Fukagawa rebuilt at full size, cycling through a day in light and sound.
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Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
Designed from Miyazaki's own sketches, deliberately without a fixed route, so visitors get lost on purpose.
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Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.