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A recently renovated, traditional sento with a number of novelty tubs, including one that ...

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

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

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

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

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

This earthquake-prone city is long overdue for a devastating trembler, so the Tokyo Fire ...

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

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

Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, some 40,000 people who had fled their homes ...

This medium-sized Kunsthalle in the woods of Ueno Park holds the annual VOCA exhibition of ...

One of the best museums in Tokyo is run by a department-store chain (it’s owned and operated by ...

The Shoto’s rough stone exterior gives way to curved walls encircling a central fountain. It’s ...

With a clay drum from Mexico, an udekki from Sri Lanka and hundreds of other drums from around ...

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

This museum takes to extremes the maxim ‘learning by doing’. The unique five-spoke building, in ...

This museum is currently closed for renovation, and will open again in November 2015.Run by the ...

Few homes of early foreign Tokyo residents have escaped the ravages of time. This one, built in ...

Kume Kuchiro was one of the first Japanese artists to embrace the Impressionist style. This ...