Museums in Japan

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

Home to a collection of drums from around the world that allow visitors to play a tune.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

This massive, beautifully-lit underground quarry leaves visitors in awe.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

Its collection distills more than 60 years of pop culture in Japan, from Godzilla to Hulk Hogan.