Museum containing a collection of over 150 items including swords designated as national treasures. There is an explanation of the manufacturing process and an archives room that holds 1,500 historical documents on swords.
Museum designed by Studio Ghibli’s director, Hayao Miyazaki, and based on the storyboards used to create the films, the most famous of which (outside of Japan, at least) is Spirited Away (2001).
Cultural facility tracing the history of the capital over the past 400 years. Original artifacts and replicas are on display with English descriptions.
Tokyo’s main photography museum has a permanent display of over 25,000 photographs from Japan and abroad, temporary exhibitions, as well as a section which looks at the history of optics and photography.
Museum displaying Japanese and East Asian antique art from the collection of its founder, Nezu Kaichiro. One of the main attractions is the Japanese garden with its stone-paved paths and tea house.
Japan’s first national art museum opened in 1952 and now contains a variety of exhibits that show the evolution of Japanese art over the course of the 20th century. There are three buildings: the Art Museum, Craft Gallery, and National Film Center.
The National Art Center has no permanent exhibitions; instead its 14,000 square meters of floor space are used for temporary exhibitions ranging from paintings and photography to works by clothing designers.
