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Browse museums across Japan by prefecture, with links to each museum's official site.

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Art Museums Modern & Contemporary Art Museums History Museums Local History & Folk Museums Railway Museums Literature Museums Ceramics & Pottery Museums Crafts & Folk Art Museums Science Museums Natural History Museums Archaeology Museums Photography Museums Maritime Museums Aquariums Castle Museums Memorial Museums Manga & Anime Museums Sake & Brewing Museums

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Hokkaido & Tohoku

Hokkaido Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima

Kanto

Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Chiba Tokyo Kanagawa

Chubu

Niigata Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Yamanashi Nagano Gifu Shizuoka Aichi

Kansai

Mie Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama

Chugoku

Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi

Shikoku

Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi

Kyushu & Okinawa

Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Okinawa

Some museum data is from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata (CC0).