The art of porcelain is the focus of this quiet museum. Its 11,000 antique Chinese and Japanese ...

Japanese and foreign films – 19,000 of them – star at the country’s only national facility ...

Idemitsu Sazo, founder of Idemitsu Kosan Co, collected traditional Chinese and Japanese art for ...

Exhibits range from flints and a tablet from Mesopotamia through Egyptian papyrus to abacuses ...

When Emperor Meiji died, on 13 September 1912, General Nogi Maresuke and his wife proved their ...

Part of the huge Palette Town development that opened in 1999, Mega Web certainly lives up to ...

This wooded hilltop park was once the estate of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), president of ...

The Bank of Japan has two buildings, descriptively named Old and New. The New Building is where ...

Attractions include displays on marine exploration and replicas of ancient Japanese ships.

This uplifting museum is a cornucopia of kites, including Indonesian dried leaves, giant ...

A few doors from Kyubei – one of Tokyo’s most famous (and famously expensive) sushi restaurants ...

This museum was founded by Soetsu Yanagi in 1936 and has a wide variety of mingei (folk crafts) ...

A reconstruction of the Shinbashi passenger terminus, part of the first railway in Japan, which ...

A primeval forest in central Tokyo? Yes, it’s a remnant of the ancient Musashino plain. ...

Daimyo feudal lords were the only people who could afford the clocks displayed here. Before ...

The absence of anything relating to modern crime-fighting might alarm more than reassure ...

If you have just one day to devote to museum-going in Tokyo and are interested in Japanese art ...

This museum channels a fundamental ingredient of life, water, into exciting displays and ...