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Toshimaen Insect Museum

One of the capital’s more unusual museums containing over 40 different types of insects from all over the…

Taimeiken Kite Museum

A museum exhibiting kites from Japan, Asia, and some European countries. The museum occupies the 5th floor of…

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Museum opened in 1995 to display a collection of post-1945 modern and contemporary art from Japan and abroad. The museum has three floors of galleries devoted to temporary exhibitions and two floors for the “MOT Collection”—the museum’s permanent display of over 5,000 exhibits and works of art.

Ochanomizu Origami Kaikan

Museum and art space to introduce and propagate the world of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding…

Calligraphy Museum

The Calligraphy Museum holds important collections for the Chinese and Japanese calligraphy histories, which were collected by a…

Tobacco & Salt Museum

A small museum in Sumida dedicated to the history and culture surrounding tobacco and salt. These two products…

Meiji Centennial Observation Tower

Meiji Centennial Observation Tower (明治百年記念展望塔) was built in 1971. It is designed as a set of interlinked platforms…

Takao Trick Art Museum

Museum where visitors can place themselves in a series of Egyptian themed fantastical scenes to create all manner…

Tokyo Trick Art Museum

Museum of 3D optical illusions some of which are large murals into which visitors stand and pose for photographs to make themselves part of the scene. Visitors are actively encouraged to bring their cameras.

Tokyo Wan Kannon Statue

Gigantic statue of the Kannon (Goddess of Mercy) built on top of a hill in Futtsu, Chiba. The…

Mount Nokogiri

Mount Nokogiri (鋸山) is a low mountain on the west side of Chiba’s Boso Peninsula. It was the…

Artizon Museum

Art museum established by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of the Bridgestone Corporation, the tire manufacturer. The Ishibashi Foundation has built on Ishibashi’s personal collection over the years and today the museum is an eclectic mix 2,600 pieces of Japanese, European, and American.