List of museums in Japan


This is a list of museums in Japan.
As of October 2018, there were 5,738 museums in Japan. This total comprises, in line with the Museum Act, 914 registered museums, 372 designated museum-equivalent facilities, and 4,452 museum-like facilities.

By region and prefecture

[Hokkaidō]

Registered museums

As of 1 November 2019, and in line with the Museum Act, there were forty-five registered museums in Hokkaidō:

Designated museum-equivalent facilities

As of 10 February 2015, in line with the Museum Act, there were twenty-one designated museum-equivalent facilities in Hokkaidō:

Museum-like facilities, etc.

These include:

Former museums

Former museums include:

Tōhoku">Tōhoku region">Tōhoku

[Aomori Prefecture]

Registered museums
As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there were three registered museums in Aomori Prefecture:
As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there was one designated museum-equivalent facility in Aomori Prefecture:
As of 31 March 2020, and as listed by the Aomori Prefectural Government, there were eighty-four museum-like facilities in Aomori Prefecture, including:

[Iwate Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities
  • Goshono Jōmon Museum
  • Hanamaki City Museum
  • Hekishōji Museum
  • Iwate Museum of Art
  • Iwate Prefectural Museum
  • Kitakami City Museum
  • Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum
  • Ōfunato City Museum
  • Ōshū City Cattle Museum
  • Tōno City Museum
    Museum-like facilities, etc
  • Hachimantai City Museum
  • Satō Hachirō Memorial Museum
  • Hanamaki City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Hara Kei Memorial Museum
  • Ichinoseki City Museum
  • Ishikawa Takuboku Memorial Museum
  • Kikuta Kazuo Memorial Museum
  • Michinoku Folk Village
  • Mifune Kyūzō Memorial Museum
  • Morioka History and Culture Museum
  • Stone and Kenji Museum
  • Toneyama Kōjin Memorial Art Museum
  • Tōno Folktale Museum

[Miyagi Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Akita Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

Yamagata">Yamagata Prefecture">Yamagata

Fukushima">Fukushima Prefecture">Fukushima

Kantō">Kantō region">Kantō

Ibaraki">Ibaraki Prefecture">Ibaraki

Tochigi">Tochigi Prefecture">Tochigi

Gunma">Gunma Prefecture">Gunma

Saitama">Saitama Prefecture">Saitama

Chiba">Chiba Prefecture">Chiba

Kanagawa">Kanagawa Prefecture">Kanagawa

Chūbu">Chūbu region">Chūbu

Niigata">Niigata Prefecture">Niigata

Toyama">Toyama Prefecture">Toyama

Ishikawa">Ishikawa Prefecture">Ishikawa

Fukui">Fukui Prefecture">Fukui

Yamanashi">Yamanashi Prefecture">Yamanashi

Nagano">Nagano Prefecture">Nagano

Gifu">Gifu Prefecture">Gifu

Shizuoka">Shizuoka Prefecture">Shizuoka

Aichi">Aichi Prefecture">Aichi

Kansai">Kansai region">Kansai

Mie">Mie Prefecture">Mie

Shiga">Shiga Prefecture">Shiga

Kyoto">Kyoto Prefecture">Kyoto

Osaka">Osaka Prefecture">Osaka

Hyōgo">Hyōgo Prefecture">Hyōgo

Nara">Nara Prefecture">Nara

Registered museums
There are fourteen registered museums:
There are six museum-equivalent facilities:

Wakayama">Wakayama Prefecture">Wakayama

Chūgoku">Chūgoku region">Chūgoku

[Tottori Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

Shimane">Shimane Prefecture">Shimane

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

Okayama">Okayama Prefecture">Okayama

[Hiroshima Prefecture]

Registered museums
As of 31 January 2019, and in line with the Museum Act, there were twenty-eight registered museums in Hiroshima Prefecture:
As of 31 January 2019, and in line with the Museum Act, there were five designated museum-equivalent facilities in Hiroshima Prefecture:

[Yamaguchi Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Shikoku]

[Tokushima Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Kagawa Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities
In addition to the above, the following are member museums of the Kagawa Museum Association:
  • Araki Kazuo Memorial Folk Tool Museum (Sanuki Senshintei)* Ayagawa Lifelong Learning Center
  • Henro Exchange Salon
  • Higashikagawa City History and Folk Museum
  • Hiraga Gennai Memorial Museum
  • Ibukijima Folk History Museum
  • Kagawa Glove Museum
  • Kagawa Memorial Water Park Water Museum
  • Kagawa Prefectural Goshikidai Children's Nature Center
  • Kan'onji City Museum
  • Kinryō-no-Sato Sake Museum
  • Kotohira Town History and Folklore Museum
  • Local Doll Museum
  • Marugame Museum
  • Marukin Soy Sauce Museum
  • Mitoyo City Takuma Town Folk Museum
  • Mount Shiude Archaeological Museum
  • Sakaide City Museum
  • Sakaide City Salt Industry Museum
  • Sanuki City History and Folk Museum
  • Sanuki Kokubun-ji Site Museum
  • Sea Science Museum
  • Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum
  • Seto Ōhashi Memorial Museum
  • Sōkichi Kawara no Sato Exhibition Hall
  • Tadotsu Town Museum
  • Takamatsu City Kōnan History and Folk Museum
  • Takamatsu Suidō Museum
  • Toramaru Puppet Theater Museum
  • Toyohama Folk Museum (Cotton Museum)
  • Ushiyaguchi Shūkokan
  • Utazu industrial Museum
  • World Coin Museum
  • Yoshima Museum
  • Zentsūji City Local Folk Museum
Other related facilities include:

[Ehime Prefecture]

Registered museums
As of 1 April 2020, and in line with the Museum Act, there were eighteen registered museums in Ehime Prefecture:
As of 1 April 2020, and in line with the Museum Act, there were six designated museum-equivalent facilities in Ehime Prefecture:

[Kōchi Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Kyushu]

Fukuoka">Fukuoka Prefecture">Fukuoka

[Saga Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities
  • Arita Ceramic Art Museum
  • Arita Porcelain Park
  • Chōkokan
  • Imaemon Museum of Ceramic Antiques
  • Kawamura Art Museum
  • Kyūshū Ceramic Museum
  • Nakatomi Memorial Medicine Museum
  • Saga Castle History Museum
  • Saga Prefectural Art Museum
  • Saga Prefectural Museum
  • Saga Prefectural Nagoya Castle Museum
  • Yōkō Art Museum
  • Yūtoku Museum
    Museum-like facilities, etc
  • Arita Folk and History Museum East Building & Arita Ware Reference Museum
  • Fukagawa Porcelain China On The Park Chūjikan
  • Genkai Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Imari City Ceramic Merchants Museum
  • Imari History and Folklore Museum
  • Imari-Nabeshima Gallery
  • Kamimine Town Furusato Gakkan
  • Karatsu Castle
  • Karatsu City Kodai no Mori Kaikan
  • Kashima City Folk Museum
  • Kōhoku Town Museum
  • Matsurokan
  • Muraoka Sōhonpo Yōkan Museum
  • Nakabayashi Gochiku Memorial Museum
  • Ogi City Historical Museum
  • Ōkuma Shigenobu Memorial Museum
  • Saga City History and Folklore Museum
  • Saga Prefecture Agricultural Research Center Museum
  • Saga Prefecture Space and Science Museum
  • Saga University Art Museum
  • Sano Tsunetami Memorial Museum
  • Shida Ware Museum
  • Taihei-an Sake Brewery Museum
  • Takeo City Library and History Museum
  • Taku City Museum
  • Tara Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Ureshino City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Yoshinogari site Yayoi Life Museum

[Nagasaki Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Kumamoto Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities
  • Honmyō-ji Hōmotsukan
  • Hoshino Tomihiro Museum of Art, Ashikita
  • Kikuchi Shrine Historical Museum
  • Kumamoto City Museum
  • Kumamoto International Folk Craft Museum
  • Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum
  • Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
  • Kumamoto University Memorial Museum of the Fifth High School
  • Matsui Bunko Museum Kisai
  • Shimada Museum of Arts
  • Shinpūren Museum
  • Tamana City Historical Museum Kokoropia
  • Yamaga City Museum
  • Yatsushiro City Museum Future Forest Museum
  • Yunomae Manga Museum
    Museum-like facilities, etc
  • Amakusa Archives
  • Amakusa Christian Museum
  • Amakusa City Itsuwa Museum of History and Folklore
  • Amakusa Collegio Museum
  • Amakusa Rosary Museum
  • Arao City Miyazaki Brothers Museum
  • Arao Cultural Center & Children's Science Museum
  • Aso Volcano Museum
  • Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
  • Goshoura Cretaceous Museum
  • Gotō Zezan Memorial Museum
  • Higo no Satoyama Gallery
  • Hondo Museum of History and Folklore
  • Inukai Memorial Museum of Art
  • Itsuki Village History and Culture Exchange Center, Historia Terrace Itsukidani
  • The Janes' Residence, Kumamoto
  • Kitasato Shibasaburō Memorial Museum
  • Kiyoura Memorial Museum
  • Koizumi Yakumo Former Residence in Kumamoto
  • Kōshi City Kōshi Historical Museum
  • Kōshi City Nishi-Gōshi Historical Museum
  • Kumamoto City Tabaruzaka Seinan Civil War Museum
  • Kumamoto City Tsukahara Historical Museum,
  • Kumamoto City Water Science Museum
  • Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanic Gardens
  • Kumamoto Museum of History and Literature
  • Kumamoto Prefectural Traditional Arts Center
  • Kyūsendō Forest Museum
  • Matsumae Shigeyoshi Memorial Museum
  • Mifune Dinosaur Museum
  • Minamata Disease Museum
  • Minamiaso Luna Observatory
  • Nagomi Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Natsume Sōseki Former Residence in Uchitsuboimachi
  • Newspaper Museum
  • Ōzu Town Museum of History and Cultural Tradition
  • Reihoku History Museum
  • Riddell-Wright Memorial Hall
  • Sakamoto Zenzō Museum of Art
  • Seiwa Bunraku Museum
  • Shiken Fujin Memorial Museum
  • Sohō Memorial Museum
  • Tsunagi Art Museum
  • Tokutomi Memorial Garden
  • Uki City Shiranuhi Museum
  • Yamae Village History and Folklore Museum
  • Yamaga Lantern Folk Craft Museum
  • Yokoi Shōnan Memorial Museum

[Ōita Prefecture]

Registered museums
As of 1 April 2020, and in line with the Museum Act, there were five registered museums in Ōita Prefecture:
As of 1 April 2020, and in line with the Museum Act, there were ten designated museum-equivalent facilities in Ōita Prefecture:
In addition to the above, the following facilities are member museums of the Ōita Prefectural Museum Council:
  • Asakura Fumio Memorial Museum
  • Beppu City Art Museum
  • Bungo-Ōno City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Hiroike Chikurō Memorial Museum
  • Kitsuki Castle Town Museum
  • Miura Baien Museum, Kunisaki
  • Nakatsu Castle
  • Nakatsu City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Ōita City Historical Museum
  • Ōita Takasaki-yama Natural Wildlife Park
  • Taketa City Historical Museum
  • Usa Jingū Hōmotsukan
Other facilities include:
  • Ama Kofun Shiryōkan
  • Beppu Art Museum
  • Comico Art Museum Yufuin
  • Nogami Yaeko Memorial Museum of Literature
  • Nada-gū Hōmotsukan
  • Ōita Kenritsu Geijutsu Kaikan
  • Saiki History Museum
  • Sano Botanical Garden
  • Tenryō Hita Museum
  • Yufuin Modern Art Museum
  • Yufuin Retro Motor Museum

[Miyazaki Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities

[Kagoshima Prefecture]

Registered museums and designated museum-equivalent facilities
As of 20 June 2019, other than the above, the following were members of the Kagoshima Prefecture Museum Association:
  • Aira City History and Folk Museum
  • Akune City History Museum
  • Amami City Amami Museum
  • Amami City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Amami Park
  • Chin Jukan Museum
  • Flower Park Kagoshima
  • Hioki City Fukiage Museum of History and Folklore
  • Hirota Site Museum & Park
  • History Museum Kimpō, Minamisatsuma City
  • Isen Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Ishibashi Park & Memorial Hall
  • Izumi City Crane Museum, Crane Park Izumi
  • Izumi City History and Folk Museum
  • Izumi Fumoto History Museum
  • Japan Mandarin Orange Center
  • Kagoshima Aquarium
  • Kagoshima City Hirakawa Zoological Park
  • Kagoshima City Museum of Archaeology
  • Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University Museum
  • Kagoshima Municipal Science Hall
  • Kagoshima Women's Junior College Museum
  • Kasasa Art Museum, Minamisatsuma
  • Kasasa Ebisu
  • Kihoku Historical Folk Museum, Kanoya City
  • Kimotsuki Museum of History and Folklore
  • Kirishima City Hayato Museum of History and Folklore
  • Kirishima Open Air Museum
  • Kirishima Kokubu Museum of History
  • Kishinkan, Bōnotsu Center for Historical Material
  • Makurazaki Nanmeikan Cultural Resource Center
  • Minamisatsuma Municipal Museum on Kaseda Local History
  • Minamitane Town Museum
  • Miyanojō Historical Center, Satsuma
  • Muku Hatojū Memorial Museum of Literature
  • Museum Chiran
  • Museum of the Meiji Restoration
  • Nagashima Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Nakatane Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Saigō Nanshū Memorial Museum
  • Sakurajima Visitor Center
  • Satsuma Denshōkan
  • Satsuma Students Museum
  • Satsumasendai History Museum
  • Satsumasendai Magokoro Museum of Literature
  • Setouchi Town Library & Setouchi Municipal Museum
  • Shibushi City Buried Cultural Property Center
  • Sueyoshi Museum of History and Folklore, Soo City
  • Tanegashima Akagome Museum
  • Tanegashima Development Center
  • Tokunoshima Town Museum
  • Uenohara Jōmon no Mori
  • Wadomari Town Museum of History and Folklore
  • Yakushima Environmental and Cultural Village Center
  • Yakushima Town History and Folk Museum
  • Yakusugi Museum
In addition to the above, the following facilities are in Kagoshima Prefecture:

[Okinawa Prefecture]

Registered museums

As of 1 May 2018, and in line with the Museum Act, there were eleven registered museums in Okinawa Prefecture:

Designated museum-equivalent facilities

As of 1 May 2018, and in line with the Museum Act, there were six designated museum-equivalent facilities in Okinawa Prefecture:

Museum-like facilities, etc.

In addition to the above, and as of 1 May 2018, the Okinawa Prefectural Government lists the following facilities:
In addition to the above, the following appear on the list of member museums of the Okinawa Prefecture Museum Society:
  • Eisa Museum
  • Minamikaze Museum
  • Nakagusuku Village Gosamaru Historical Materials Library
  • National Theatre Okinawa
  • Okinawa Army Hospital Haebaru Bunker No.20