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

Planning

Best Museums

A ranked Tokyo museum shortlist led by which venues you cannot walk into.

Planning

What To Book Ahead

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

Planning

Rainy Day Museums

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

Planning

Museums With Kids

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

Planning

Grutto Pass Worth It

The Grutto Pass break-even, worked from real door prices, plus every exclusion the brochure buries.

Planning

Free Museums In Tokyo

The two genuinely free museums, the free floors, the free days and the free walking tours.

Museum By Museum

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Art Museums

Tokyo's art museums sorted by what you want to look at, and by whether you can walk in.

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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.

Museums

Science Museums

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

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History Museums

Where to see Edo: the reopened Ryogoku museum, its open-air sister, and the closing days that catch visitors out.

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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