Japan's Museums
Japanese love museums! You can find hundreds of museums throughout Japan dedicated to showing a vast array of historical or modern objects, people and events of cultural significance and insignificance!
Many museums are quite small and their hours are erratic. Here is a small list of the more quirky museums you will find in Japan:
Cup Noodles Museum - pictured above (displays cup noodles from their humble beginnings up to the modern era)
Alloy Casting Museum - moulds and panels on display
Battledore Museum - predecessor to Badmington (hagoita) displaying pre war bats
Dry Wood Museum
Rubber Baseball Museum - history of rubber baseball, bats and gloves
Safe and Key Museum - unlocks history of safes
Tortoiseshell Museum - no need to rush through this one
Japanese Stationery Museum - something to write home about
Eyeglass Museum - a 6,000 piece collection - enough to make you go blind
Parasite Museum - they even have a gift shop
Tobacco and Salt Museum - I have actually visited this one and enjoyed it!
Banknote and Postage Museum - displays money and stamps from around the world
Fire Museum - traces history of fire fighting - this one is hot!
Japan Toy Museum - 8,000 toys on display - kids allowed
Toy Museum - crafts oriented toys
Drum Museum (Taiko-kan) - hard to beat
John Lennon Museum - Imagine that (now closed)
Beer Museum - (Yebisu Beer) visited this one twice
Clock Museum - dozens of clocks will remind you that closing time is 4:00pm (run by the Japanese Clock Preservation Society-who else?)
Bags and Luggage Museum - I visited this one (it was a quiet day!)
Folding Screen Museum - no ticket no peeking
Sumo Photograph Museum - wide angle heaven
Socks Museum - Tabi are traditional Japanese socks
Subway Museum - The Subway Museum is devoted to Tokyo's subways (how low can you get?)
Fishcake (Kamaboko) Museum - in Odawara (near Hakone)
Japan's Museums
Japanese love museums! You can find hundreds of museums throughout Japan dedicated to showing a vast array of historical or modern objects, people and events of cultural significance and insignificance!
Many museums are quite small and their hours are erratic. Here is a small list of the more quirky museums you will find in Japan:
Cup Noodles Museum - pictured above (displays cup noodles from their humble beginnings up to the modern era)
Alloy Casting Museum - moulds and panels on display
Battledore Museum - predecessor to Badmington (hagoita) displaying pre war bats
Dry Wood Museum
Rubber Baseball Museum - history of rubber baseball, bats and gloves
Safe and Key Museum - unlocks history of safes
Tortoiseshell Museum - no need to rush through this one
Japanese Stationery Museum - something to write home about
Eyeglass Museum - a 6,000 piece collection - enough to make you go blind
Parasite Museum - they even have a gift shop
Tobacco and Salt Museum - I have actually visited this one and enjoyed it!
Banknote and Postage Museum - displays money and stamps from around the world
Fire Museum - traces history of fire fighting - this one is hot!
Japan Toy Museum - 8,000 toys on display - kids allowed
Toy Museum - crafts oriented toys
Drum Museum (Taiko-kan) - hard to beat
John Lennon Museum - Imagine that (now closed)
Beer Museum - (Yebisu Beer) visited this one twice
Clock Museum - dozens of clocks will remind you that closing time is 4:00pm (run by the Japanese Clock Preservation Society-who else?)
Bags and Luggage Museum - I visited this one (it was a quiet day!)
Folding Screen Museum - no ticket no peeking
Sumo Photograph Museum - wide angle heaven
Socks Museum - Tabi are traditional Japanese socks
Subway Museum - The Subway Museum is devoted to Tokyo's subways (how low can you get?)
Fishcake (Kamaboko) Museum - in Odawara (near Hakone)