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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

. As of October 2018, there were 5,738 museums in Japan. This total comprises, in line with the Museum Act, 914 registered museums, 372 designated museum-equivalent facilities, and 4,452 museum-like facilities.

By region and prefecture

Hokkaidō is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

Registered museums

As of 1 November 2019, and in line with the Museum Act, there were forty-five registered museums in Hokkaidō: * Abashiri City Folk Museum * Abashiri City Museum of Art * Abashiri Prison Museum * Akkeshi Maritime Affairs Memorial Museum * Arai Memorial Museum of Art * Asahikawa City Museum * Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in Honour of Nakahara Teijirō * Asahikawa Science Center * Bihoro Museum * Date City Museum of History and Culture *

Hakodate City Museum is a museum of history and natural history in Hakodate Park, Hakodate, Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from ...

Hakodate Jōmon Culture Center opened in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2011. It has four exhibition rooms dedicated to the Jōmon period, displaying some 1,200 pieces of earthenware and stoneware excavated in Hakodate as well as the only National Treasure in Hokkaidō, the so ...

* Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaidō * Hidaka Mountains Museum * Hiroo Town Marine Museum * Hokkaidō Asahikawa Museum of Art * Hokkaidō Museum of Literature * Hokkaidō Museum of Modern Art * Hokkaidō Museum of Northern Peoples * Hokkaidō Obihiro Museum of Art * Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum – Arte Piazza Bibai * Kitaichi Venetian Art Museum * Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art * Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaidō * Kushiro City Museum * Kushiro City Museum of Art * Migishi Kōtarō Museum of Art, Hokkaidō * Mikasa City Museum * Miura Ayako Literature Museum * Monbetsu City Museum * Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum * Nayoro City Kitaguni Museum *

Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum opened in the Nibutani area of Biratori, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1992. The collection includes 919 items relating to the daily life of the local Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property; a further 202 i ...

* Obihiro Centennial City Museum * Otaru City General Museum * Otaru City Museum of Art * Otaru City Museum of Literature * Rishiri Town Museum * Sapporo Science Center * Shibetsu City Museum * Shinhidaka Town Museum * Tomakomai Art Museum * Tomakomai City Science Center * Urakawa Town Museum * Shiretoko Museum

Designated museum-equivalent facilities

As of 10 February 2015, in line with the Museum Act, there were twenty-one designated museum-equivalent facilities in Hokkaidō: * Akkeshi Marine Station Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaidō University * Asahikawa Tondenhei Village Museum * Chitose Salmon Aquarium * Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaidō University * Fukuhara Memorial Museum * Historical Village of Hokkaidō * Hongō Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo * Kushiro Children's Museum * Lake Utonai Sanctuary Nature Center * Muroran City Youth Science Museum * Muroran Folklore and Historic Museum * Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature * Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe * Noboribetsu Bear Park * Obihiro Zoo * Otaru Aquarium * Sapporo Art Museum * Sapporo Maruyama Zoo * Sendai Clan, Shiraoi Manor House Museum * Kanda Nisshō Memorial Museum of Art * Yūbari Coal Mine Museum

Museum-like facilities, etc

These include: *

Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum The opened in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a fossilized Naumann's elephant in Chūrui, now Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizat ...

Edwin Dun Edwin Dun (June 19, 1848 – May 15, 1931) was a rancher from Ohio who was employed as an '' o-yatoi gaikokujin'' in Hokkaidō by the Hokkaidō Development Commission (''Kaitakushi'') and advised the Japanese government on modernizing agri ...

Memorial Museum * Ebetsu City Historical Museum * Ebetsu Glass Crafts Museum * Eniwa City Historical Museum * Esashi Town Historical Museum *

Hakodate City Museum of Literature The opened in Hakodate, Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the ...

Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples first opened as the in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989. Located in the former Bank of Japan Hakodate Branch building of 1926, after the transfer out of materials relating to the poet to the , the museum reopened in its current guise in Ap ...

* Historical Museum of the Saru River * Hokkaidō Archaeological Operations Center * Hokkaidō Museum * Hokkaidō Railway Technology Museum * Hokkaidō University Botanical Gardens * Hokkaidō University Museum * Hokuchin Memorial Museum * Hokuto City Hometown Museum * Ishikari City Hamamasu Folk Museum * Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum * Kikonai Town Museum * Kitami Mint Memorial Museum * Matsumae Town Historical Museum * Miyanomori Art Museum * Museum of Soils and Ploughs of the World * Nanae Historical Museum * National Ainu Museum * Okhotsk Museum Esashi * Otaru Music Box Museum * Pierson Memorial House * Rausu Municipal Museum * Rebun Town Historical Museum * Sapporo Beer Museum * Sapporo Buried Cultural Property Center * Shellfish Museum of Rankoshi * Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum * Shinhidaka Ainu Museum * Shintotsukawa Town Historical Museum * Taiho Sumo Museum * Takikawa Local History Museum * Takikawa Museum of Art and Natural History * Urahoro Town Museum * Wakkanai Karafuto Museum * Yakumo Town Museum * Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall * Yoichi Fisheries Museum

Former museums

Former museums include: *

Ainu Museum The , also known as Porotokotan, is a former museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaidō, Japan. The facility began its existence in 1976 as the Shiraoi Foundation for the Preservation of Ainu Culture. In 1984 this was extended to include the Ainu Folk Museum. ...

Tōhoku

Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the eas ...

=Registered museums

= As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there were three registered museums in Aomori Prefecture: * Aomori Prefectural Museum * Hachinohe City Museum * Hirosaki City Museum

=Designated museum-equivalent facilities

= As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there was one designated museum-equivalent facility in Aomori Prefecture: * Aomori Museum of Art

=Museum-like facilities

= As of 31 March 2020, and as listed by the Aomori Prefectural Government, there were eighty-four museum-like facilities in Aomori Prefecture, including: *

Aomori City Forestry Museum The is a natural history museum located in the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The museum focuses primarily on the forest ecosystems of Aomori Prefecture and the history of the lumber industry in the prefecture, though other unrela ...

* Aomori City Mediaeval Museum (Chūsei no Yakata) * Aomori Museum of History * Hakkōda Mountains Incident

Museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...

Hirosaki Castle is a city located in western Aomori Prefecture, Japan. On 1 April 2020, the city had an estimated population of 168,739 in 71,716 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Hirosaki developed as a castle town fo ...

Botanical Gardens *

Museum * Hirosaki City Local Literature Museum *

Korekawa Archaeological Institution (Korekawa Jōmon Kan) , more literally the Hachinohe City Buried Cultural Property Center, opened in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan in 2011. It exhibits Jōmon materials from the nearby Korekawa Site and , finds at the latter including the that has been desig ...

* Kushihiki Hachiman-gū Museum of National Treasures * Dazai Osamu Memorial Museum * Misawa Aviation & Science Museum * Munakata Shikō Memorial Museum of Art * Sanmaru Museum * Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art * Terayama Shūji

Memorial Museum Memorial museums are museums dedicated both to educating the public about and commemorating a specific historic event, usually involving mass suffering. The concept gained traction throughout the 20th century as a response to the numerous and we ...

* Takaoka no Mori Historical Museum of Hirosaki Clan *

Towada Art Center The is an art museum in Towada, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The museum was opened in 2008 as part of the Arts Towada Project, in an effort to revitalize the city. It features works from artists both inside and outside of Japan, including Yoko Ono ...

* Tsugaru-han Neputa Village * Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum

=Other related facilities

= * Andō Shōeki

Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse The is a city-owned museum near Aomori Station in the city of Aomori in northern Japan. It displays a revolving exhibit of four Nebuta floats from the most recent Aomori Nebuta Matsuri summer festival, alongside media related to the festiva ...

* Nitobe

* Tachineputa Museum

=Former museums

= * Hachinohe City Museum of Art

Iwate Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at , with a population of 1,210,534 (as of October 1, 2020). Iwate Prefecture borders Aomori Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefectur ...

=Registered museums & designated museum-equivalent facilities

= * Goshono Jōmon Museum * Hanamaki City Museum * Hekishōji Museum *

Iwate Museum of Art The is an art museum An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place ...

* Iwate Prefectural Museum * Kitakami City Museum *

Miyazawa Kenji was a Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social act ...

* Ōfunato City Museum * Ōshū City Cattle Museum * Tōno City Museum

=Museum-like facilities, etc

= * Hachimantai City Museum * Satō Hachirō

* Hanamaki City Museum of History and Folklore *

Hara Kei was a Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921. Hara held several minor ambassadorial roles before rising through the ranks of the Rikken Seiyūkai and being elected to the House of Representatives. Har ...

* Ichinoseki City Museum *

Ishikawa Takuboku was a Japanese poet. Well known as both a tanka and or poet, he began as a member of the Myōjō group of naturalist poets but later joined the "socialistic" group of Japanese poets and renounced naturalism. He died of tuberculosis. Major wo ...

* Kikuta Kazuo

* Michinoku Folk Village *

Mifune Kyūzō has been categorized as one of the greatest exponents of the art of judo after the founder, Kanō Jigorō. He is considered by many to be the greatest judo technician ever, after Kanō. Early life Mifune was born on April 21, 1883, in Kuji Cit ...

* Morioka History and Culture Museum * Stone and Kenji Museum * Toneyama Kōjin Memorial Art Museum * Tōno Folktale Museum

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

=Registered museums & designated museum-equivalent facilities

= *

Aoba Castle 260px, Layout of Aoba Castle is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Aoba Castle was home to the Date clan, ''daimyō'' of Sendai Domain. The castle was also known as or as . In 2003, the ca ...

Museum * Fukushima Art Museum *

The Miyagi Museum of Art opened in Sendai, Japan, in 1981. The collection has as its primary focus works associated with Miyagi Prefecture and the Tōhoku region more generally, from the Meiji period to the present day, and also includes paintings by Wassily Kandinsky a ...

* Ōsaki City Matsuyama Furusato History Museum * Rias Ark Museum of Art * Rikuzentakata City Museum *

Sendai City Museum The is the main museum of Sendai, Miyagi, Sendai, Japan, and is located in the former Third Bailey of Sendai Castle. The museum displays various artifacts related to the Date clan and the history of Sendai. Date Masamune's famous suit of armor a ...

* Kami Town Serisawa Chōsuke Tōhoku Ceramic Culture Museum * Tōhoku Gakuin University

* Tōhoku History Museum * Tōhoku Fukushi University Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum *

Zuigan-ji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in located in the town of Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Belonging to the Myōshin-ji-branch of Rinzai Zen, it was founded in 828 during the Heian period by Jikaku Daishi. History The temple was found ...

Treasure Hall Seiryūden

=Museum-like facilities, etc

= * 3M Sendai Science Museum * Bansui Sōdō * Botanical Garden of Tōhoku University *

Daigigakoi Shell Mound is an archaeological site consisting of a Jōmon period midden#shell midden, Shell midden and the remains of an adjacent settlement located in what is now the town of Shichigahama, Miyagi, Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of ...

Museum * Fujita Kyōhei

Museum of Glass The Museum of Glass (MOG) is a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m²) art museum in Tacoma, Washington, dedicated to the medium of glass. Since its founding in 2002, the Museum of Glass has been committed to creating a space for the celebration of the st ...

* Hara Asao

Ishinomori Manga Museum , also known as the Ishinomaki Mangattan Museum, is a museum in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 2001 to commemorate the works of manga artist and author Shotaro Ishinomori, who was born in what would become the present day Ish ...

* Ishinomori Shōtarō Furusato Memorial Museum * Kankaku Museum * Kanno Museum of Art *

Kanrantei is the only building to survive from a mansion complex of the Date clan in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is said to have originated as a teahouse in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Fushimi Castle, to have been moved to Edo by Date Masamune, and fi ...

& Matsushima Museum * Kazenosawa Museum * Kesennuma City Ōtani Mine History Museum * Museum of Kamei Collection * Nakamoto Seishi Contemporary Art Museum * Ōhira-mura Furusato Museum of Art * Police Museum * Saitō Garden Museum *

Sannō-Gakoi Site The is an archaeological site located in the city of Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, containing the ruins of a late Jōmon period to Yayoi period (approximately 500 BC to 0 BC) settlement. The site was des ...

Museum *

Satohama Shell Mound The is an archaeological site consisting of a shell midden and the remains of an adjacent Jōmon period settlement located in what is now the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has been pro ...

& Historical Museum of Jōmon Village, Oku-Matsushima * Satoru Satō

Art Museum An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own Collection (artwork), collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place. A ...

* Sendai Astronomical Observatory *

Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum The is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in ...

* Sendai City War Reconstruction Memorial Hall * Sendai City Wild Plants Garden * Sendai Kaleidoscope Museum * Sendai Literature Museum * Shiogama Jinja Museum * Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art * Tanabata Museum *

Tōhoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National ...

* Tome City History Museum *

Toyoma Education Museum Toyoma Education Museum exhibits the history of education in Japan since the Meiji period. It is housed in the of 1888 in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture. The U-shaped two-storey building around a courtyard, lined with balconies and with h ...

Zuihōden in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan is the mausoleum complex of Date Masamune and his heirs, daimyō of the Sendai Domain. History When Date Masamune, known as and founder of the Sendai Domain, died in 1636, he left instructions for a mausoleu ...

Museum

Akita Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its ge ...

=Registered museums & designated museum-equivalent facilities

= *

Akita Museum of Art is an art museum in the city of Akita. The original Akita Prefectural Museum of Art was opened on May 5, 1967. The new museum was opened on September 28, 2013. The main exhibit is a collection of works by Tsuguharu Foujita from the collection o ...

Akita Museum of Modern Art opened in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan in 1994 and houses an important collection of ''Akita ranga'' . See also * Akita Prefectural Museum * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Akita) This list is of the Cultural Properties ...

Akita Prefectural Museum is a prefectural museum in the city of Akita, Japan. It houses a comprehensive display of archaeological artifacts, crafts, biological and geological samples pertaining to the history and folklore of Akita Prefecture. The museum opened in May ...

Akita Senshū Museum of Art opened in Akita is a Japanese name and may refer to: Places * 8182 Akita, a main-belt asteroid * Akita Castle, a Nara period fortified settlement in Akita, Japan * Akita Domain, also known as Kubota Domain, feudal domain in Edo period Jap ...

* Kitaakita City Hamabe no Uta Music Hall * Kosaka Town Museum * Omono River Local Museum * Polder Museum of Ōgata-Mura

=Museum-like facilities, etc

= * Mining Museum of Akita University * Ōmura Museum of Art * Satake Historical Museum * Yokote Masuda Manga Museum

Yamagata

* Abumiya * Chidō Museum *

Chidōkan (Tsuruoka) The was the Domain academy of Shōnai Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate located in what is now part of the city of Tsuruoka in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It is one of over 250 han schools which existed in Japan during the ...

* Dewazakura Museum of Art *

Domon Ken Photography Museum The was opened in 1983 in Sakata, Yamagata (Japan), the birthplace of the photographer Ken Domon. On the occasion of becoming the first honorary citizen of Sakata in 1974, Domon donated his entire collection of works to the town. This prompted t ...

Homma Museum of Art opened in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in 1947. Setting The residence was built in 1813 by the fourth head of the , Junji Homma, who was a noted collector of Japanese swords and chairman of the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai. The Ho ...

* Kaminoyama Castle * Matsuoka Kaikonjo *

Mogami Yoshiaki Historical Museum The is a museum in the city of Yamagata in northern Japan just outside the reconstructed Great Eastern Gate of Yamagata Castle. It focuses on the place in history of Mogami Yoshiaki and his role in building the foundations of present-day Yamaga ...

* Sakata City Museum of Art * Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum * Yamagata Museum of Art * Yamagata Prefectural Museum * Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum

Fukushima may refer to: Japan * Fukushima Prefecture, Japanese prefecture Fukushima, Fukushima, capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan *Fukushima University, national university in Japan *** Fukushima Station (Fukushima) in Fukushima, Fukushim ...

Aizuwakamatsu Castle , also known as Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城 ''Tsuru-ga-jō'') is a concrete replica of a traditional Japanese castle in northern Japan, at the center of the city of Aizuwakamatsu, in Fukushima Prefecture. Background Aizu Wakamatsu Castle is loca ...

Fukushima Museum is a prefectural museum in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, dedicated to the natural history, history, and culture of Fukushima Prefecture. The museum opened in Aizuwakamatsu Castle, Tsuruga Castle Park in 1986. Galaxy See a ...

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art is a museum located in Fukushima City, at the base of Mount Shinobu. It shares a campus of over 60,000 square meters with Fukushima Prefectural Library. The two facilities were established together in July, 1984. However, the museum maintains i ...

* Iwaki City Archaeological Museum * Kōriyama City Museum of Art *

Morohashi Museum of Modern Art opened in Kitashiobara, Fukushima, Kitashiobara, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in 1999. It is situated within Bandai-Asahi National Park, near Goshiki-numa and with views of Mount Bandai. The permanent collection includes over three hundred forty ...

* Picture Book Museum, Iwaki City * Takizawa Honjin

Kantō

Ibaraki

Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History The is a local history museum in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. The museum opened in September 1974. The collection focuses on the history of Ibaraki and the grounds also include a n ...

* Science Museum of Map and Survey *

Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki The opened in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan in 1997. It has a memorial room dedicated to Okakura Tenshin and his works and displays other items of Japanese art, especially by the artists of the Izura coast. See also * Rokkakudō * ...

Tochigi

Bandai Museum The is a museum devoted to Bandai characters located in Mibu, Shimotsuga District, Tochigi, Japan. It opened on July 19, 2003 as the Bandai Museum at Matsudo, Chiba. It was closed on August 31, 2006 and moved to Mibu, Tochigi on April 28, 200 ...

Honda Collection Hall The Honda Collection Hall is a transport museum housing a collection of Honda consumer- and racing-oriented artifacts. It is on the grounds of the Twin Ring Motegi race track located at Motegi, Tochigi, Japan. It opened in 1998. It is operated by ...

* Kurita Museum *

Utsunomiya Museum of Art opened in a wooded area some north of the centre of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, in 1997. The collection includes works by Kuroda Seiki and Asai Chū, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, and special exhibitions are also mounted. See als ...

* Tochigi Prefectural Museum *

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts opened in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, in 1972. The collection includes works by Shōji Hamada, Hamada Shōji, Takahashi Yuichi, John Constable, Constable, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Corot, Thomas Gainsborough, Gainsborough, Monet, an ...

Gunma is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima P ...

* Asama Volcano Museum *

Gunma Insect World Insect Observation Facility in Kiryū, Gunma, Japan is a learning facility for observing the ecology of insects. The building was designed by Tadao Ando, built by Takenaka Corporation is one of five major general contractors in Japan. Takenak ...

The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma opened in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1974. The collection includes works by Monet, Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Im ...

* Okawa Museum of Art *

Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park The is an open-air railway museum located in Annaka, Gunma, Japan. It is operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and was opened on 18 April 1998 on the site of the former Yokokawa motive power depot alongside the Shinetsu Main Line ...

Saitama

* Hachigata Castle *

John Lennon Museum was a museum located inside the Saitama Super Arena in Chūō-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. History The John Lennon Museum opened on October 9, 2000, the 60th anniversary of Lennon's birth, and closed on September 30, 2010, when its ...

Railway Museum (Saitama) The is a railway museum in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, which opened on 14 October 2007. It was built and is operated by the East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It consists of a 1 ...

Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds The is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. The museum was originally established as in 1969 as part of the construction of , ...

Tokorozawa Aviation Museum The is a museum located in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama dedicated to the history of aviation in Japan. It contains aircraft and other displays (many of which are interactive) and an IMAX theatre. Located on the site of Japan's first airfield w ...

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

Chiba Museum of Science and Industry is a science museum located in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The museum introduces mainly topics related to technology, for modern industry. The museum sets up its goal as to provide a place for experiencing various aspects of science and ...

Hoki Museum is located in Midori-ku, Chiba, Japan. It opened on 3 November 2010 and is the country's first museum dedicated to Realist painting. The collection of over three hundred works includes pieces by and . Tomohiko Yamanashi & Taro Nakamoto (Nik ...

* Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art *

Kururi Castle is a Japanese castle located in Kimitsu, southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kururi Castle was home to a branch of the Kuroda clan, ''daimyō'' of Kururi Domain. The castle was also known as , after a legend that it ra ...

National Museum of Japanese History The , commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983. The collections of museum focus on the history, archaeology, ...

Ōtaki Castle (Chiba) is a Japanese castle located in Ōtaki, southeast Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the Edo period, Ōtaki Castle was given to Honda Tadakatsu. The castle was also known as . History Construction of the Castle The Satomi clan, virtually inde ...

* Sekiyado Castle *

Tateyama Castle is a Japanese castle are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries, and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Kanagawa is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...

Hakone Open-Air Museum The Hakone Open-Air Museum (箱根彫刻の森美術館, Hakone Choukoku no Mori Bijutsukan) is Japan's first pen-air museum opened in 1969 in Hakone in Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It has collections of artworks made b ...

Hara Model Railway Museum The is a model railway museum in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan, which opened on 10 July 2012. Managed by Mitsui Fudosan, the museum houses the extensive collection of model trains built and amassed by the Japanese model railway enthusiast . The museu ...

* Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama *

Japanese battleship Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of ...

* Kamakura Museum of Literature * Kamakura Museum of National Treasures *

Kanazawa Bunko , formally titled the Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum, is a museum located in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan. It features a collection of traditional Japanese and Chinese art objects, many dating from the Kamakura period. Originally b ...

* Lalique Museum Hakone * Museum of Tin Toys *

Nihon Minka-en is a park in the of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. On display in the park is a collection of 20 traditional ' (farm houses) from various parts of Japan, especially thatched-roofed houses from eastern Japan. Of these, nine ha ...

Nissan Engine Museum The is an automobile engine museum run by Nissan Motor Company. The museum is located at the first floor of the guest hall in Yokohama auto plant, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. Overview The building of the museum was built in 1934 in Kanagawa-k ...

Number Nine Research Laboratory The , also known as the , was a military development laboratory run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1945. The lab, based in the Noborito neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, was originally founded in 1927 as the Shinod ...

NYK Maritime Museum The is a museum in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, dedicated to the maritime history of Japan and of the museum's operator, shipping company Nippon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha ("NYK Line"). It was opened in 1993. Access The museum i ...

Odawara Castle is a landmark in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. History Odawara was a stronghold of the Doi clan during the Kamakura period, and a fortified residence built by their collateral branch, the Kobayakawa clan, stood on the ...

Pola Museum of Art is located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened in September 2002 within Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. It houses the collection of over 9,500 works acquired by the former head of the Pola cosmetics group, including many works of Fr ...

Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is a small district in Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Buildings and attractions * Shin-Yokohama Station * Kita Shin-Yokohama Station * Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum * Yokohama Arena is an indoor arena located in Yokohama, Ka ...

* Taro Okamoto Museum of Art *

Toshiba Science Institute Toshiba Science Museum is a science museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by ...

* Yamate Museum *

Yokohama Archives of History The in Naka ward, central Yokohama, near Yamashita Park, is a repository for archive materials on Japan and its connection with foreign powers since the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853. The archives are next to Kaiko Hiroba (Port Op ...

Yokohama Customs Museum Yokohama Customs Museum is a museum in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. It is located in the ground floor of the historical Yokohama Customs Building, one of the Yokohama Three Towers Yokohama three towers are a group of historical towers at the Port of ...

Yokohama History Museum is a history museum in Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the ...

Yokohama Museum of Art , founded in 1989, is located in the futuristic Minato Mirai 21 district of the Japanese city Yokohama, next to the Yokohama Landmark Tower. The collections The museum has works by many influential and well-known modern artists including Constant ...

* Yokohama Port Museum * Yokohama Science Center * Yokohama Silk Museum

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Niigata

* Former Niigata Customs House * Niigata City History Museum * Niigata Prefectural Museum of History * Northern Culture Museum

Toyama Toyama may refer to: Places and organizations * Toyama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu island * Toyama, Toyama, the capital city of Toyama Prefecture * Toyama Station, the main station of Toyama, ...

Museum of Modern Art, Toyama The is a museum in Toyama, Toyama. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. The museum, which opened in 1981, stands within Jōnan ...

Toyama Castle Toyama Castle moat is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is also called Azumi Castle (安住城 ''Azumi-jō''). Built in 1543, the castle and its surroundi ...

Ishikawa

* 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art * Ishikawa Aviation Plaza *

Ishikawa Nanao Art Museum opened in 1995 in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The main art gallery on the Noto Peninsula, the collection includes works by Hasegawa Tōhaku. See also * Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art , also known as IPMA, is the main art gallery ...

Ishikawa Prefectural History Museum is a prefectural museum in Kanazawa, Japan, dedicated to the history and culture of Ishikawa Prefecture. The three ICP red brick buildings date to 1909-14 and functioned first as the local arsenal, then after the Pacific War as the Kanazawa Col ...

Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art , also known as IPMA, is the main art gallery of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture. The collection includes some of the prefecture's most important cultural assets and works by artis ...

Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Traditional Arts and Crafts ( ja, 1=石川県立伝統産業工芸館) is a museum about traditional arts and crafts located in Kenroku-en, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. History The museum was closed ...

* Kanazawa Phonograph Museum *

Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum The Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum ( ja, 1=金沢市立安江金箔工芸館) is a museum about gold leaf in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. History The museum was originally founded in 1974 by a local craftsman Yasue Takaaki in Kitayasu ...

* Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumeji-kan Museum * Murō Saisei Memorial Museum * Nippon Origami Museum

Fukui is a Japanese name meaning "fortunate" or sometimes "one who is from the Fukui prefecture". It may refer to: Places * Fukui Domain, a part of the Japanese han system during the Edo period * Fukui Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in ...

* Brief Messages from the Heart Museum * Fukui Fine Arts Museum * Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum *

Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History is a prefectural museum in Fukui, Japan, dedicated to the history and culture of Fukui Prefecture. The museum opened in 1984 and reopened after refurbishment in 2003. See also * Wakasa Province * Echizen Province * List of Historic Sites of ...

* Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum *

Maruoka Castle is a ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle located in the Maruoka neighbourhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It also called due to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle, a thick mist app ...

Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum is a museum that displays the history of Tsuruga Port, located in Kanegasaki Park, Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan. It emphasizes Chiune Sugihara, who saved the lives of many Jewish refugees during World War II by issuing transit visas. Tsuruga Port was t ...

* Wakasa Mikata Jōmon Museum

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Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts The is a gallery of photography in the Kiyosato region of the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi (Japan). The gallery was founded in 1995; Eikoh Hosoe has been its director since its opening. The gallery, which also refers to itself as "K*MoPA", "emb ...

Maizuru Castle Park was a Japanese castle located in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in the Chubu region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 2019. The castle is also known as Maizuru Castle, and the present-day surroundi ...

Nakamura Keith Haring Collection Nakamura Keith Haring Collection is a private museum collection of American artist Keith Haring artworks, located in the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan. The museum is the only in the world dedicated to the work of Keith Haring. T ...

* Yamanashi Prefectural Museum *

Yamanashi Science Museum is a science museum located in Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The museum specializes in astronomy, and technology. History The museum was originally located at Kofu Castle but was moved to its present location in 1998 when reconstructio ...

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture * Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics * Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano * Nagano Universi ...

* Hijiri Museum * Japan Ukiyo-e Museum * Jōkyō Gimin Memorial Museum *

Kaichi School Museum The in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture was one of the first schools in Japan. It opened in a temporary building in May 1873, the year after the first major education reforms were introduced by the new Ministry of Education. The school moved to n ...

* Kitano Museum of Art *

Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum opened on the shore of Lake Nojiri in Shinano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in 1984. Initially the , it was renamed the Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum in 1996. The collection focuses on finds from the excavations at Lake Nojiri that began in ...

Matsumoto Castle , originally known as Fukashi Castle, is one of Japan's premier historic castles, along with Himeji and Kumamoto. The building is also known as the due to its black exterior. It was the seat of Matsumoto Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa shog ...

Matsushiro Literary and Military School The was the Han school of Matsushiro Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. It located in the Matsushiro neighborhood of the city of Nagano in the Chūbu region of Japan. Of the over 250 han schools which existed in Japan at the end of ...

* Saku Children's Science Dome for the Future * Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts *

Togariishi Museum of Jōmon Archaeology 20px, Togariishi ruins The is a municipal museum located in the city of Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, specializing in artifacts of the Jōmon period (between 14,000 and 1000 BCE). Togariishi Museum of Jōmon Archaeology The museum was open ...

Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country. During the Sengoku ...

* Cormorant Fishing House *

Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum The is a museum located in Gifu Park in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the works of the brothers Eizō and Tōichi Katō, who were born in the city. It is part of the Gifu City Museum of History. Facility layout ...

Enkū Museum is a museum dedicated to Japanese monk and sculptor Enkū in the city of Seki, Gifu, Seki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Enkū was born in Mino Province, present-day Gifu Prefecture, in 1632 and died in Seki in 1695. See also * Japanese sculpture R ...

Gifu Castle is a Japanese castle located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Along with Mount Kinka and the Nagara River, it is one of the main symbols of the city. The castle is also known as . It was designated a National Historic Site in 2011 ...

Gifu City Museum of History The is a city-supported history museum located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Located in Gifu Park at the base of Mount Kinka, it is in the heart of Gifu City's sightseeing area. The museum primarily focuses on the history and tra ...

Gifu City Science Museum is a city-supported museum in Gifu, Gifu, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was built in 1955 and was moved to its present location and renamed the Gifu City Children's Science Center in 1980. When the planetarium was added in 1988, the name was ag ...

* Gifu Prefectural Museum * Hida Minzoku Mura Folk Village * Hikaru Memorial Hall * Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu *

Nawa Insect Museum The is a museum in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the Nawa Insect Research Center. History Yasushi Nawa, the man who discovered the Gifu Butterfly and is known as "The Insect Man," opened the Nawa Insect Research ...

Ōgaki Castle 270px, Ōgaki Castle in 1933 270px, Edo period layout map of Ōgaki Castle is a flatlands-style Japanese castle located in the city of Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. During the Sengoku period, Ōgaki Castle was home to several of Toyotomi Hid ...

Ōta-juku Nakasendō Museum is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Nakasendō's Ōta-juku and is located in the city of Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.Solar Ark The Solar Ark (ソーラーアーク) is a Japanese ark-shaped solar photovoltaic power generation facility which offers activities to cultivate a better appreciation of solar power generation, and thereby benefitting both ecology and science. Thi ...

Sunomata Castle 250px, Tenshu is a Japanese castle in Ōgaki in Gifu Prefecture at the confluence of the Sai and Nagara rivers. It is also called the , due to the legend that it was built in one night. The castle was constructed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, at the ...

Shizuoka Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

* Arai Barrier *

Hamamatsu Castle is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shog ...

Kakegawa Castle is a ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' clans who ruled over Kakegawa Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Background Kakegawa Castle is located ...

MOA Museum of Art The is a private museum in the city of Atami, Japan. History The museum was established in 1982 by the Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) to house the art collection of their founder, multimillionaire and religious leader Mokichi Okada (1882– ...

* Sano Art Museum *

Shijimizuka site The is an archaeological site containing a late to final Jōmon period settlement trace and shell middens, located in what is now Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The settlement was inhabited from approximately 2000 BC to 1000 B ...

* Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art *

Toi Gold Museum The is a museum on the subject of gold mining in ancient and modern Japan, which is located next to the Toi gold mine in the city of Izu, Shizuoka, Japan. The museum displays reconstitutions of the manufacturing process for gold during the To ...

* Uehara Museum of Modern Art *

Yokosuka Castle is a Japanese castle located in Ōsuka in the southern part of what is now the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan. It was built in the Sengoku period and was the capital of Yokosuka Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. In 1981 ...

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Sakuma Rail Park The was an open-air railway museum located next to Chūbu-Tenryū Station on the Iida Line in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It was operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), and was opened on 21 April 1991. The museum closed on 1 N ...

Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectu ...

Aichi Arts Center is the main venue for the performing arts in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The center consists of: *Aichi Prefectural Museum *Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater **Main Hall **Concert Hall *Aichi Prefectural Arts Promotion Service *Aichi Prefect ...

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum The is a prefectural art museum located in the city of Seto, north of the metropolis of Nagoya in central Japan. This museum was formally named "Aichi-ken Toji Shiryokan (愛知県陶磁資料館)", but the name in English has been the same as b ...

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Money Museum The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Money Museum (三菱東京UFJ銀行貨幣資料館) is a numismatic museum located in Nagoya, central Japan. As "Tokai Bank Money Museum", it opened in 1961. After a name change due to bank mergers, the present n ...

Electricity Museum, Nagoya The is a technological museum and exhibition hall located in the city of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. History The museum is sponsored by Chubu Electric Power and was opened in 1986. Exhibitions The museum houses on the first four floors ...

Inuyama Castle is a ''yamajiro''-style Japanese castle located in the city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The castle overlooks the Kiso River, which serves as the border between Aichi and Gifu Prefectures. The ''tenshu'' of Inuyama Castle, one of only 12 ...

* International Design Centre Nagoya * Iwasaki Castle *

Japan Spinning Top Museum The Japan Spinning Top Museum (日本独楽博物館) is a toy museum located in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. History The spinning top, called ''koma'' (独楽) was and still is a popular traditional toy in Japan and the Chubu region. The ...

Kiyosu Castle is a Japanese castle located in Kiyosu, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is noted for its association with the rise to power of the Sengoku period warlord, Oda Nobunaga. The kanji in the name of the castle was written as 清須城. The curren ...

* Koromo Castle * Little World Museum of Man * Masamura Pachinko Museum *

Meiji Mura is an open-air architectural museum/theme park in Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was opened on March 18, 1965. The museum preserves historic buildings from Japan's Meiji (1867–1912), Taishō (1912–1926), and early Sh ...

Nagoya Castle is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period. Nagoya Castle was the heart of one of the ...

Nagoya City Art Museum The is located in the city of Nagoya in central Japan. The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983 to 1987. Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, Sean Scully, and Alexand ...

Nagoya City Museum The is a museum of the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The Nagoya City Museum was established in 1977. Its collection includes archaeological materials, fine art, crafts, documents, books and folk materials including samurai armor a ...

Nagoya City Science Museum The is a museum located in Sakae, Nagoya, the center of Nagoya City, in central Japan. The museum houses one of the largest planetarium in the world and has three main sections on modern technology, life sciences and general science with a var ...

Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum The is a museum located in the city of Nisshin, Aichi, Japan. It is owned and operated by the Transportation Bureau of the City of Nagoya. The museum houses a collection of Nagoya's old subway trains and trams. The museum visitors can exper ...

Nagoya Noh Theater The Nagoya Noh Theater (名古屋能楽堂) is a Noh drama theatre building located in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. History The history of Noh in Owari Province dates back to the heyday of feudal rule, when performances were shown at t ...

Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts The was an art museum in Nagoya, Japan, that operated from 1999 to 2018. History A sister institution of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the MFA), the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts was established in partnership with the Foundation for t ...

Nishio Castle is a Japanese castle located in the city of Nishio, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Nishio Castle was home to the Ogyu Matsudaira, ''daimyō'' of Nishio Domain. The castle was also known as , , or . History Nish ...

Noritake Garden The Noritake Garden (ノリタケの森) is located in the city of Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located ...

Okazaki Castle is a Japanese castle located in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Okazaki Castle was home to the Honda clan, ''daimyō'' of Okazaki Domain, but the castle is better known for its association with Tokugawa Ieyasu an ...

SCMaglev and Railway Park The is a railway museum owned by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) in Nagoya, Japan. The museum opened on 14 March 2011. The museum features 39 full-size railway vehicles and one bus exhibit, train cab simulators, and railway model d ...

Tahara Castle is a Japanese castle located in Tahara, southern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tahara Castle was home to the Miyake clan, ''daimyō'' of the 12,000 ''koku'' Tahara Domain. History Tahara Castle is located on a small h ...

Tokugawa Art Museum The is a private art museum, located on the former '' Ōzone Shimoyashiki'' compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japane ...

* Toyohashi City Museum Art and History *

Toyota Automobile Museum The is a large museum showcasing Toyota's storied past. It is a large complex located in Nagakute city, a city close to Nagoya, Japan. Collection Unlike the Toyota USA Automobile Museum, the museum in Nagoya also features many cars from other ...

Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology The , also known as Toyota Tecno Museum, is a technology museum located in Nishi-ku in the city of Nagoya, central Japan. History Toyota started as a textile firm and evolved over decades into an international automobile producer. The museum ...

* Toyota Municipal Museum of Art *

Yoshida Castle is a Japanese castle located in Toyohashi, southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Yoshida Castle was home to the Inaba clan, ''daimyō'' of Tateyama Domain. The castle was also known as , and later as Toyohashi Cast ...

Kansai The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshu, Honshū. The region includes the Prefectures of Japan, prefectures of Nara Prefecture, Nara, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto, Osaka Prefectur ...

Mie

Iga Ueno Castle , also known as is a Japanese castle located in the city of Iga, Mie Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The castle is also called , or "White Phoenix Castle," because of its beautiful architecture and floor plan. The castle has been prote ...

Iga-ryū Ninja Museum The situated in a forested location in Iga, Mie Prefecture, Japan, is a museum dedicated to the history of the ninja and ninjutsu. It was established in 1964 and is located near Iga Ueno Castle. Jinichi Kawakami, who serves as the honorary dire ...

Natsumi Temple complex The is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka to Nara period Buddhist temple located in the Natsumi neighborhood of the city of Nabari, Mie Prefecture Japan. The temple no longer exists, but the temple grounds were designated as a ...

Saikū The , was a palace complex located in what is now the Takegawa neighborhood of the town of Meiwa, Tai District, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Forming a small village, it was established in the Nara period as the palace and public offices of the ''Saiō' ...

Shiga is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Pr ...

Hikone Castle is a Japanese Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan It is considered the most significant historical building in Shiga. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951. Hikone is ...

* Kawara Museum *

Miho Museum The Miho Museum is located southeast of Kyoto, Japan, in the Shigaraki neighborhood of the city of Kōka, in Shiga Prefecture. It is also the headquarters of the Shinji Shumeikai, a new religious group founded by Mihoko Koyama. History The m ...

Minakuchi Castle thumbnail, 260px, layout of Minakuchi Castle thumbnail, 260px, Another view of the ''yagura'' , is a ''hirashiro''-style Japanese castle located in the former town of Minakuchi, in the city of Kōka, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The castle is also ...

Nagahama Castle is a ''hirashiro'' (castle on a plain) located in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. History Nagahama Castle was built in 1575-1576 by Hashiba Hideyoshi (later known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in the village then called Imahama, renaming the area ...

Sagawa Art Museum opened in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture t ...

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

Asahi beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art Asahi (朝日, 旭, or あさひ) means "morning sun" in Japanese and may refer to: Cities * Asahi, Chiba (旭市; ''Asahi-shi'') Wards * Asahi-ku, Osaka (旭区; ''Asahi-ku'') * Asahi-ku, Yokohama (旭; ''Asahi-ku'') Towns * Asahi, Aichi (旭� ...

Fukuchiyama Castle is a castle located in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. History Fukuchiyama Castle was originally built and ruled by the Yokoyama family. Following the capture of Tanba in 1576, Akechi Mitsuhide reconstructed the castle on the foundati ...

Kyoto Art Center The is a venue for promoting the arts which is located in the heart of Kyoto, Japan. The center, a three-story reinforced-concrete building, occupies the site of the former Meirin Elementary School (founded by the people of Kyoto during the Meij ...

* Kyoto City History Museum *

Kyoto International Manga Museum The Kyoto International Manga Museum (京都国際マンガミュージアム, Kyōto Kokusai Manga Myūjiamu) is located in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The museum's collection includes approximately 300,000 items as of 2016, with 50,000 volumes ...

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art The is one of the oldest art museums in Japan. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. It is located in Okazaki Park in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, and opened in 1928 as a commemoration of Emperor Hirohito's coro ...

Kyoto Museum for World Peace The is part of Ritsumeikan University in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The Museum is accessible to the public for a 400–600 Yen fee. The displays and materials are mostly in Japanese but there is a 25-page English booklet describing the exhibits. Th ...

Kyoto National Museum The is one of the major art museums in Japan. Located in Kyoto's Higashiyama ward, the museum focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art. History The Kyoto National Museum, then the Imperial Museum of Kyoto, was proposed, along with the Impe ...

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan. This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). History The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK) was initially created as the Annex Museum of the National ...

Ōkōchi Sansō is the former home and garden of the Japanese ''jidaigeki'' (period film) actor Denjirō Ōkōchi in Arashiyama, Kyoto. The villa is open to the public for an admission fee and is known for its gardens and views of the Kyoto area. Several of the b ...

Ryozen Museum of History The is a history museum located in Kyoto, Japan. It specializes in the history of the Bakumatsu period and the Meiji Restoration. The Museum is next to the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine The is a Shinto Shrine located in Kyoto, Japan. It ho ...

Sen-oku Hakuko Kan 250px, Sen-oku Hakuko Kan is located in Kyoto, Japan and houses a large collection of Chinese bronze vessels, Chinese and Japanese mirrors, and a few Chinese bronze Buddhist figures. The collection was brought together by Sumitomo Kichizaemon V ...

The Tale of Genji Museum The Tale of Genji Museum is in Uji, Kyoto, Japan. It displays the world of the early 11th century Japanese classic novel '' The Tale of Genji'' with projected images, models, and exhibitions. The culture of the Imperial Court of the Heian peri ...

Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum The (formerly the until 2016) is a railway museum in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The original Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum opened in 1972, but was expanded and modernized in 2016, becoming the Kyoto Railway Museum. The museum is owned by We ...

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

* Abeno Harukas Art Museum *

CupNoodles Museum Osaka Ikeda is a museum dedicated to instant noodles and Cup Noodles, as well as its creator and founder, Momofuku Ando. The museum is located in Ikeda in Osaka, and is located within walking distance of Ikeda Station on the Hankyu-Takarazuka Line. Admiss ...

Fujita Art Museum The is one of the largest private collections in the Kansai region. The collection was assembled by Fujita Denzaburō and his descendants. It was installed in a storehouse on the family property in Osaka. Opened to the public in 1954, the col ...

* Itsuō Art Museum * Kishiwada Castle *

Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi The opened in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 1982. The new wing was added in 1997. The local Kubo family, founders of the Kubosō cotton textile business, donated the land, buildings, collection, and funds for the Museum's management to th ...

Liberty Osaka Liberty Osaka (formerly the Osaka Human Rights Museum) is a museum dedicated to human rights situated in Naniwa-ku, a ward in south Osaka City. As the first general museum dedicated to human rights in Japan, the focus of its permanent exhibits is ...

Masaki Art Museum is an art museum in Tadaoka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, that opened in 1968. The collection, built up by , comprises some thirteen hundred works, including three National Treasures and twelve Important Cultural Properties. Gallery See also ...

Modern Transportation Museum The was the corporate museum operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan. It opened on 21 January 1962, next to Bentencho Station on the Osaka Loop Line. The collection included steam locomotives, electric locomo ...

Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum CupNoodles Museum may refer to one of two museums in Japan: * CupNoodles Museum Osaka Ikeda * CupNoodles Museum Yokohama {{Short pages monitor * Tokashiki Village History and Folk Heritage Museum * Tomigusuku City History and Folk Material Exhibition Room * Tropical & Subtropical Arboretum * Tropical Dream Center * Ueno German Culture Village Kinder House * Uezu House, Uezu Family Residence * Uruma City Ishikawa History and Folk Museum * Uruma City Sea Culture Museum * Uruma City Yonashiro History and Folk Museum * Yaese Town Gushikami Museum of History and Folklore * Yaeyama Peace Memorial Museum * Yambaru Wildlife Conservation Center, Ufugi Nature Museum * Yomitan Village Art Museum * Yomitan Village History and Folklore Museum * Yonabaru Town Tsunahiki Museum * Okinawa Urban Monorail, Yui Rail Yui Rail Exhibition Hall, Exhibition Hall In addition to the above, the following appear on the list of member museums of the : * Eisa (dance), Eisa Eisa Museum, Museum * Minamikaze Museum * Nakagusuku Village Gosamaru Historical Materials Library * National Theatre Okinawa * Okinawa Army Hospital Haebaru Bunker No.20

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Hokkaidō is Japan, Japan's Japanese archipelago, second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost Prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own List of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; th ...

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Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the eas ...

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Iwate Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at , with a population of 1,210,534 (as of October 1, 2020). Iwate Prefecture borders Aomori Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefectur ...

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Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

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Akita Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in ; "Tōhoku" in . Its population is approximately 966,000 (as of 1 October 2019) and its ge ...

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Fukushima may refer to: Japan * Fukushima Prefecture, Japanese prefecture ** Fukushima, Fukushima, capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan ***Fukushima University, national university in Japan *** Fukushima Station (Fukushima) in Fukushima, Fukushim ...

Gunma is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima P ...

Chiba Chiba may refer to: Places China * (), town in Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei Japan * Chiba (city), capital of Chiba Prefecture ** Chiba Station, a train station * Chiba Prefecture, a sub-national jurisdiction in the Greater Tokyo Area on ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Kanagawa is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...

Toyama Toyama may refer to: Places and organizations * Toyama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu island * Toyama, Toyama, the capital city of Toyama Prefecture * Toyama Station, the main station of Toyama, ...

Fukui is a Japanese name meaning "fortunate" or sometimes "one who is from the Fukui prefecture". It may refer to: Places * Fukui Domain, a part of the Japanese han system during the Edo period * Fukui Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in ...

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ...

Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country. During the Sengoku ...

Shizuoka Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

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Aichi is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectu ...

Kansai The or the , lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshu, Honshū. The region includes the Prefectures of Japan, prefectures of Nara Prefecture, Nara, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto, Osaka Prefectur ...

Shiga is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Pr ...

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

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Fukushima may refer to: Japan * Fukushima Prefecture, Japanese prefecture Fukushima, Fukushima, capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan *Fukushima University, national university in Japan *** Fukushima Station (Fukushima) in Fukushima, Fukushim ...

Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture * Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics * Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano * Nagano Universi ...