Best History Museums Spot List

An exhibit featuring contact and change between Eastern and Western cultures

Learn from the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

Discover Tohoku history and culture

The Kyoto National Museum houses many artworks and cultural properties of Kyoto dating from the Heian period (794-1185) to the Edo period (1603-1868).

The second-oldest national museum in Japan, located in Nara Park. It boasts the nation's greatest collection of Buddhist art.

An octagonal, three-story western-style home in Maiko Park

Meet overwhelmingly large dinosaur skeleton specimens

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

Reproduces the streets of Fukagawa Saga-cho in the Edo Period so visitors can see the scene and lifestyle of that period.

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