By type

Local History & Folk Museums in Japan

Local history and folk museums across Japan — the kind that never make a tourist map, where the everyday life and memory of a single community is kept. Often the most surprising doors of all.

313 museums across 47 prefectures

Hokkaido32

Aomori11

Iwate8

Miyagi4

Akita12

Yamagata2

Fukushima3

Ibaraki2

Tochigi4

Gunma2

Saitama7

Chiba5

Tokyo14

Kanagawa11

Niigata4

Toyama4

Ishikawa3

Fukui1

Yamanashi2

Nagano10

Gifu12

Shizuoka5

Aichi19

Mie2

Shiga6

Kyoto6

Osaka8

Hyogo6

Nara6

Wakayama2

Tottori7

Shimane7

Okayama11

Hiroshima9

Yamaguchi7

Tokushima6

Kagawa4

Ehime6

Kochi2

Fukuoka6

Saga6

Nagasaki4

Kumamoto3

Oita1

Miyazaki7

Kagoshima11

Okinawa3

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