Museums & Galleries

List of Museums in Japan

Japan is home to a rich tapestry of museums that showcase its unique culture and history. From ancient artifacts to contemporary art, these institutions offer a glimpse into the nation's artistic and historical heritage.

237 itemsUpdated Mar 13, 2026

This list comprises 235 museums located throughout Japan, showcasing a diverse range of cultural, historical, and artistic institutions. It includes both regional and national museums that highlight Japan's rich heritage and contemporary art scene.

#	Name
1	ATELIER MUJI GINZA
2	Abashiri Prison Museum
4	Aichi Sento Museum
5	Ainokura Folklore Museum museum in Nanto, Toyama, Japan
6	Aisho-cho Echigawa Bintemari Museum
7	Aizu Folkulore Museum
8	Aizumi Town Historical Museum Ai-no-Yakata museum in Aizumi, Tokushima, Japan
9	Akama Shrine Treasure Hall museum in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
10	Akan International Crane Center in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
11	Aki City Museum of History and Folklore museum in Aki, Kōchi, Japan
12	Akinai Shiryōkan museum in Otaki, Chiba
13	Akio Morita Library
14	Akkeshi Town Ōta Tonden Kaitaku Memorial Museum building in Hokkaidō, Japan
15	Amami City Museum of History and Folklore museum in Amami, Kagoshima, Japan
16	Amami Museum museum in Amami, Kagoshima, Japan
17	Analog Game Museum museum in Japan
18	Anan City Awa-kubou and Folklore Museum
19	Ando Museum museum in Naoshima, Japan
20	Ando Town Historical Folklore Museum museum in Ando, Nara, Japan
21	Anjo City Museum of History museum in Anjo, Aichi, Japan
22	Annaka-shi Gakushuunomori Furusato Gakushukan
23	Aoba Castle Museum museum in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
24	Aoyakamijichiiseki Tenjikan
25	Arakawa Museum of Aqua museum in Kita, Tokyo, Japan
26	Aridagawa Railway Park
27	Arima Memorial Museum
28	Armor Museum (Nagoya)
29	Art and Natural History Museum of Sado museum in Sado, Niigata, Japan
30	Asahikawa Taisetsu Crystal Hall building in Asahikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
31	Asahikawa Tondenhei Village Museum museum in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
32	Asaka City Museum museum in Asaka, Saitama, Japan
33	Asakura City Akizuki Museum
34	Asama Jomon Museum
35	Ashiya-machi Historical Folk Museum museum in Ashiya, Fukuoka, Japan
36	Ashoro Local Museum
37	Assabu-cho Local Museum
38	Atami Castle building in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
39	Atami City Izusan Local Material Hall
40	Auschwitz Peace Museum Japan Peace museum in Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan
41	Australian Memorial Hall
42	Awa City Ichiba Folk Historical Material Hall museum in Awa, Tokushima, Japan
43	Awa Deko Bunka Shiryōkan museum in Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
44	Awa Kokufu Street Corner Museum museum in Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
45	Awa Wooden Doll Museum museum in Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
46	Awa-Ikeda Udatsu House and Tabacco Museum museum in Miyoshi, Tokushima, Japan
47	Awaji Kannon demolished statue on Awaji Island, Japan
48	Awajishima Museum
49	Azai Nōgaku Shiryōkan museum in Nagahama, Shiga, Japan
50	Azuchi Castle Museum
51	Azuchi Castle Museum, the "House of Nobunaga" museum in Ōmihachiman, Japan
52	Banshū Winery historic site
53	Basho's Oku no Hosomichi Haiku Journey Museum
54	Bee Museum
55	Bicycle Culture Center
56	Bifukacho Kyodo Hakubutsukan
57	Bihoro Museum museum in Bihoro, Hokkaido, Japan
58	Biohistory Research Hall museum
59	Bisai-shi Rekishi Minzoku Shiryōkan
60	Bisei Astronomical Observatory
61	Bizen Museums
62	Bizen Osafune Sword Museum museum in Setouchi, Okayama, Japan
63	Botchan Train Museum museum in Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
64	Brief Messages from the Heart Museum museum in Sakai, Fukui prefecture, Japan
65	British Antique Museum Kamakura
66	Budo-no-Kuni Culture Hall museum in Koshu, Yamanashi, Japan
67	Bunkamura building in Tokyo, Japan
68	Bunkarekishishiryoukan
69	Bunkyounomori Nagai
70	Buppōshōryū-ji Hōmotsuden
71	Byodo-in Museum Hoshokan
72	Chado Research Center Galleries museum in Kyoto, Japan
73	Charcoal Museum
74	Chatan Museum museum in Chatan, Okinawa, Japan
75	Chateau Mercian Wine Museum museum in Koshu, Yamanashi, Japan
76	Chiba Keizai University Regional Economy Museum
77	Chiba Prefectural Sekiyado-jō Museum archive organization in Noda, Japan
78	Chichibu Furusatokan
79	Chidō Museum open-air museum, Folk museum in Kachushin-machi Tsuruoka Yamagata Japan
80	Chiryu City History and Folklore Museum
81	Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall Museum in Japan
82	Chuo-shi Toyotomi Local Museum
83	Chūson-ji Sanko-zō museum in Chūson-ji
84	Clock Museum and Treasure House, Ōmi Jingū museum in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan
85	Communications Museum in Tokyo
86	Cormorant Fishing House cormorant fishing museum in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
87	Cultural Assets Repository, Mōtsū-ji museum in Hiraizumi, Iwate, Japan
88	DUSKIN MUSEUM
89	Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall museum in Japan
90	Daihonzan Eiheiji Ruri-shobokaku
91	Dairakuji Museum Old Collection
92	Daisen Museum of Nature and History museum in Daisen, Tottori, Japan
93	Daito City History and Folklore Museum history museum in Daito, Osaka
94	Date City Institute of Funkawan Culture
95	Date City Museum of History and Culture museum in Date, Hokkaido, Japan
96	Denshouyugakukan
97	DiDi Yonaguni Exchange Center
98	Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution archive organization in Kobe, Japan
99	Doigahama Site yayoi period cemetery in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
101	Ebetsu City Ceramic Art Center
102	Echizen City Takefu Memorial Public Hall
103	Echizen Town Ota History and Culture Center
104	Eco Museum Sekigahara
105	Eco Museum of Osaka
106	Edogawa-ku Local Museum
107	Ehime Kenritsu Hakubutsukan
108	Ehime Museum of People museum in Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
109	Eisa Museum museum in Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan
110	Enkiri-dera Mantoku-ji Shiryō-kan
111	Equine Museum of Japan museum in Yokohama, Japan
112	Erimo Town Museum & Museum of Kombu and Fishery
113	Esashi Oiwake Museum and Esashi Yama Museum
114	Expo '70 Pavilion
115	Festa Forest in Takayama
116	Fish Specimens and Old Japanese Life Museum
117	Flower Museum
118	Flute Museum
119	Former Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Nagasaki Branch
120	Former Niikawa House building in Izumisano, Osaka, Japan
121	Former Ozu Residence (merchant Museum)
122	Former Retreat of Tomomi Iwakura
123	Former Sakoshiura Kaisho
124	Former Tama Seiseki Memorial Hall
125	Fourth High School Memorial Museum of Cultural Exchange, Ishikawa
126	Fudenosato Kōbō
127	Fuji Museum
128	Fujieda City Provincial Museum and Literary Museum
129	Fujihashi Castle
130	Fujihashi Historic Plaza
131	Fujioka Historical Folk Material Museum
132	Fujiwara Palace Site Exhibition Room
133	Fukuchiyama City Chisui Museum
134	Fukui-ken Shūhōkan
135	Fukuno Creative Cultural Center Helios
136	Fukuoka History and Folklore Museum of Takaoka City museum in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan
137	Fukushima Prefecture Cultural Properties Center—Shirakawa Hall
138	Fukushima Sakura Yūgakusha
139	Fukushima-sekisho Museum
140	Fukuyama Castle Museum
141	Fukuyama City Shinichi History and Folk Culture Museum
142	Funagata-machi Folk Historical Material Hall
143	Furuhashi Retrospective Exhibition Center museum in Toyota, Aichi, Japan
144	Furusato Ikimono-no-sato Omurasakikan educational institute in Kuriyama, Hokkaido, Japan
145	Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association building in Japan
146	Fushiki Kitamaebune Museum museum in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan
147	Fussa Museum of Local History
148	Futagawa-shuku Honjin Museum museum in Toyohashi City, Aichi, Japan
149	Fuwanoseki Museum museum in Sekigahara, Gifu, Japan
150	Gallery MORYTA gallery in Fukuoka, Japan
151	Geihinkan Museum
152	Geihoku Minzokugeinou Hozondenshoukan
153	Genroku Matsudo-mura
154	Gero Museum of Hot Springs
155	Gesshō Museum museum in Yanai, Yamaguchi, Japan
156	Giant Kite Hall former kite museum in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
157	Gifu Seki Cutlery Hall
158	Ginan-cho Folk Historical Museum
159	Ginoza Municipal Museum museum in Ginoza, Okinawa, Japan
160	Glover Garden park in Nagasaki
161	Gohan museum exhibit hall about rice and Japanese food culture
162	Goryōkaku Branch of Hakodate City Museum
163	Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory museum in Hokuei, Tottori, Japan
164	Gotō Tourism and Historical Materials Museum museum in Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan
165	Goyu Museum museum in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
166	Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum
167	Gujo-Hachiman Hakurankan museum in Gujo, Gifu, Japan
168	Gujō Hachiman Rakugeikan
169	Gundam Front Tokyo
170	Gunkanjima Digital Museum
171	Gunkanjima Museum
172	Gyōukan museum in Shikokuchūō, Ehime, Japan
173	Haboro Town Historical Museum museum in Japan
174	Hacchi
175	Hachimantai City Museum museum in Hachimantai, Iwate, Japan
176	Haebaru Town Museum
177	Haga-machi General Information Center facility in Haga, Tochigi, Japan
178	Hagi Museum museum in Hagi, Japan
179	Hakomotokan Konya museum in Yamatokōriyama, Nara, Japan
180	Hakui Historical Folklore Museum
181	Hakusan City Mattō Museum
182	Hakusan City Tsurugi Museum
183	Hakusan Ryūhōden
184	Hamada Hot Spring Museum
185	Hamamatsu Air Park
186	Hamamatsu Literary Arts Museum
187	Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments musical Instrument Museum in Hamamatsu, Japan
188	Hamamatsu Uchiyama Matatsu Museum
189	Hanamatsuri Kaikan museum in Toei, Aichi, Japan
190	Hanazono University Historical Museum museum in Kyoto, Japan
191	Handa Red Brick Building building in Handa City, Aichi Prefecture
192	Handa Shiritsu Hakubutsukan
193	Hands-on Science Museum
194	Hannō Municipal Museum
195	Hanzōmon Museum museum in Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku
196	Hashima Folk History Museum, Hashima Movie Museum museum in Hashima, Gifu, Japan
197	Hayama Shiosai Museum museum in Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
198	Hayatozuka Historic Site Museum
199	Hekishoji Museum
200	Hibiya Library & Museum library
201	Higashi Museum museum in Higashi, Okinawa, Japan
202	Higashikawacho Kyoudokan
203	Higashimiyoshi-cho Folk Historical Material Hall museum in Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima, Japan
204	Higashitagawa Culture Memorial Hall archive organization in Tsuruoka, Japan
205	Higashiura Town Local History Museum museum in Higashiura, Aichi, Japan
206	Higo Satoyama Gallery museum in Kumamoto, Japan
207	Hijikawa Wind Museum, and, Utamaro Pavilion museum in Ōzu, Ehime, Japan
208	Hijiri Aviation Museum museum in Omi, Nagano, Japan
209	Hikaru Museum Museum in Japan
210	Hikoro no Sato
211	Himakajima Museum
212	Hino Station Railway Museum railway museum in Hino, Shiga, Japan
213	Hiroshima Castle castle
214	Hishio museum in Maniwa, Japan
215	Historic Sites Osarizawa Mine
216	Historical Materials Section, Yoshioka Yayoi Memorial Room Tokyo Women's Medical University
217	Historical Museum of Hokkaido
218	Historical Museum of Urahoro museum in Urahoro, Hokkaido, Japan
219	Historical and Folklore Reference Center
220	Hiwa Museum of Natural History Museum in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
221	Hobara Museum of History and Culture museum in Date, Fukushima, Japan
222	Hokkaido Ainu Center
223	Hokudan Historical Folk Material Hall
224	Hokuei Hojo Folk Historical Museum
225	Hokuto City Hometown Museum Japanese museum of local history
226	Home Town Exhibition of Izu-no-kuni City (izu-no-kuni City Local Museum)
227	Honjo Life Safety Learning Center
228	Hoppōkan Museum/Nostalgia House
229	Horse Museum Towada City Shotokukan
230	Hoshun Yamaguchi Memorial Hall museum in Hayama Town, Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
231	Hotaruika Museum museum in Namerikawa, Toyama, Japan
232	Hotoku Museum
233	Houhoku Historical Folk Material Hall museum in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
235	Hyakkō Museum
236	Tokyo National Museum
237	Kyoto National Museum
238	Osaka Museum of History
239	Nara National Museum
240	Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints

This list is compiled from verified public records and reference sources. Last verified: March 13, 2026.

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