Guides To Tokyo Museums And Collections

How to plan a museum day, which passes save money, and the collection highlights worth your time, written for real visits rather than guesswork.

Planning Your Visit

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Best Museums

The best Tokyo museums, ranked, with the booking window each one demands.

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Book Ahead Guide

Which Tokyo museum tickets need booking before you fly, and which you can buy at the door.

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Rainy Day Museums

Where to go in Tokyo when it will not stop raining, sorted by dry time and indoor access.

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Museums With Kids

Which Tokyo museums actually hold a child, which let them touch things, and which need booking ahead.

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Grutto Pass Worth It

What the 2,500 JPY Grutto Pass really covers, what it excludes, and the honest break-even math.

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Free Museums

Which Tokyo museums are genuinely free, which only look free, and the free days and walking tours that fill the gaps.

Museum By Museum

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Art Museums

The two teamLab worlds, the Ueno nationals and the quiet art houses, sorted by what you want to look at.

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Planets vs Borderless

The head to head between Tokyo's two teamLab venues: water, price, booking windows and which one to pick.

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Anime Museums Tokyo

Which character museums are really in Tokyo, and which two cannot be bought at the door at all.

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Samurai And Sumo

What is open after the Kabukicho samurai museum closed, plus where to find swords and sumo culture.

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Science Museums

Tokyo's science museums, ticket prices and the Miraikan closure explained.

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History Museums

Walk into Edo, samurai, and Showa at Tokyo's best history museums.

Tokyo And Beyond

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Museum Day Trips

Which museums near Tokyo justify the train fare, and what each trip really costs.

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Ueno Park Museums

Four major museums on one lawn, and every one of the nationals shuts on a Monday.

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