By type

History Museums in Japan

History museums across Japan, organized by prefecture — each one a door into the memory of a place, from major cities to the smallest towns.

337 museums across 47 prefectures

Hokkaido5

Aomori9

Iwate5

Miyagi8

Akita8

Yamagata5

Fukushima7

Ibaraki5

Tochigi4

Gunma5

Saitama3

Chiba7

Tokyo16

Kanagawa6

Niigata5

Toyama3

Ishikawa5

Fukui7

Yamanashi1

Nagano6

Gifu17

Shizuoka5

Aichi21

Mie6

Shiga10

Kyoto6

Osaka13

Hyogo10

Nara4

Wakayama2

Tottori8

Shimane6

Okayama6

Hiroshima9

Yamaguchi7

Tokushima5

Kagawa3

Ehime6

Kochi5

Fukuoka12

Saga11

Nagasaki6

Kumamoto7

Oita7

Miyazaki11

Kagoshima9

Okinawa5

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