Tokyo Museums: Tickets, Prices And The Ones Worth Booking Ahead

The queue for teamLab Planets in Toyosu never reaches a ticket window, because there is no window: every ticket is date- and time-stamped in advance, and nobody is sold one on the day. Two stops away in Ueno, the Tokyo National Museum sells collection admission for 1,000 JPY at the gate and never sells out. That split is the whole puzzle of museum-going in Tokyo. Thirty-eight museums sit on this site, from the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, whose named tickets go on sale at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month through Lawson Ticket, to the Meguro Parasitological Museum, which charges nothing at all. Door prices run from 400 JPY to 6,600 JPY. What decides the day is not cost but which doors can simply be walked through.

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Collection admission at the Tokyo National Museum costs 1,000 JPY at the gate, while the Meguro Parasitological Museum is genuinely free, though it closes both Monday and Tuesday.

Short answer

Most Tokyo museums are cheap and walkable: collection admission runs 400 JPY at the Sumida Hokusai Museum, 500 JPY at the National Museum of Western Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 630 JPY at the National Museum of Nature and Science, 800 JPY at the reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum and 1,000 JPY at the Tokyo National Museum. Only two museums are genuinely free, the Sumo Museum and the Meguro Parasitological Museum, and both carry a catch: the Sumo Museum shuts Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays and needs a Grand Sumo ticket during a Tokyo tournament, while Meguro closes Monday and Tuesday. The real constraint is which venues cannot be bought at the door at all: teamLab Planets TOKYO, the Ghibli Museum, Mitaka and the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum sell advance-only tickets.

Which Tokyo Museums Are Actually Worth Booking?

The venues that genuinely need booking before you fly are the ones with no door at all. teamLab Planets TOKYO in Toyosu sells advance-only timed entry, rated 4.7 across 21,329 reviews, and teamLab Borderless at Azabudai Hills runs timed slots that sell out, rated 4.7 across 23,793 reviews. The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka needs a named Lawson Ticket bought at 10:00 JST on the 10th of the month. The Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, rated 4.8 across 16,914 reviews, is timed slot from 6,600 JPY and the official page itself recommends booking ahead because slots sell out.

Lower-key but still worth reserving: the Artizon Museum in Kyobashi runs fifteen half-hour timed-entry slots a day and costs 1,200 JPY online against 1,500 JPY in person. The Samurai Ninja Museum in Asakusa sells timed experiences from about 3,000 JPY, and the Snoopy Museum in Machida sells date-and-time advance tickets at 2,000 JPY against 2,200 JPY same-day, with same-day tickets released only when there is room inside.

Browse Tokyo Museums By Theme

The 38 museums on this site sort into five working groups, because the question that matters is rarely what a museum holds but how you get in. Art museums stretch from the Tokyo National Museum's 1,000 JPY collection galleries in Ueno to the Artizon Museum's timed slots in Kyobashi. Pop culture covers the Ghibli Museum and the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, both advance-only, alongside the Warner Bros. Studio Tour. History runs from the reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum to the free Sumo Museum beside the Kokugikan.

Science and nature holds the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno, the Railway Museum in Omiya and Miraikan in Odaiba, which closes entirely on 1 October 2026. Quirky covers everything from the free Meguro Parasitological Museum to the Unko Museum and the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum at 450 JPY. Each theme section below names what the group actually holds, what it costs at the door, and which members cannot simply be walked into.

Art museums Two teamLab worlds, the national collections in Ueno, and the quiet Aoyama garden museums 13 museums Anime & pop culture Ghibli, the Harry Potter studio tour, Sanrio, and the toy-sized city in Ariake 7 museums History & samurai Edo-era Tokyo, samurai armour you can handle, and the sumo world in Ryogoku 6 museums Science & nature Ueno's whale and dinosaur halls, a robot future museum, and a hall of real locomotives 3 museums Quirky & unusual A parasite museum, a poop museum and two food museums that let you build your own 9 museums

Every Tokyo Museum Compared: Price, Book Ahead, Closed Day And Rating

The full comparison table below lists all 38 museums with five columns that answer the questions a day in Tokyo actually turns on: the door price in JPY, whether the venue is walk-in, timed slot or advance-only, the weekly closing day where one is published, and the rating and review count where the site stands behind the numbers. A few venues publish no fixed door price because they price by date or by exhibition, and for those the table says so rather than guessing.

Read the book-ahead column first. It is the one that decides whether a plan survives contact with a ticket window: three museums cannot be bought at the door at all, eight more run timed slots or reserved dates, and the remaining majority sell at the gate. The closed-day column carries its own traps, from the Ueno Monday cluster to the Sumo Museum's weekend shutdown and the museums whose calendars publish no fixed weekday at all.

MuseumBest forAreaTicket fromBook aheadRating
Hakone Open-Air Museum Ninotaira $11.75 Walk in ★ 4.9
The Railway Museum Omiya $9.79 Walk in ★ 4.8
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo - The Making of Harry Potter Toshimaen $42.75 Timed slot, book ahead ★ 4.8
teamLab Borderless Azabudai Hills $20.75 Timed slot, book ahead ★ 4.7
teamLab Planets TOKYO Toyosu $24.29 Advance only, no door ★ 4.7
Tokyo National Museum Ueno Park $6.65 Walk in ★ 4.7
Madame Tussauds Tokyo DECKS Tokyo Beach $13.75 Walk in ★ 4.7
Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura Kinugawa-Onsen $36.59 Walk in ★ 4.7
Samurai Ninja Museum Tokyo Asakusa $20 Timed slot, book ahead ★ 4.6
National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno Park $4.10 Walk in ★ 4.6
Sanrio Puroland Tama $22.60 Reserve entry date ★ 4.6
SMALL WORLDS TOKYO Ariake $19.15 Walk in ★ 4.6
KidZania Tokyo Urban Dock LaLaport Toyosu $15.29 Timed slot, book ahead ★ 4.6
Miraikan - National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Aomi $4.15 Walk in ★ 4.5
Tokyo Trick Art Museum DECKS Tokyo Beach $7.95 Walk in ★ 4.5
Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum Shin-Yokohama $2.99 Walk in ★ 4.4
Tokyo Joypolis DECKS Tokyo Beach $23.49 Walk in ★ 4.4
Unko Museum Tokyo DiverCity Tokyo Plaza $13.05 Walk in, quiet days ★ 4.3
Mori Art Museum Roppongi Hills Walk in ★ 4.3
The National Museum of Western Art Ueno Park Walk in, quiet days
Nezu Museum Minami-Aoyama Walk in
Artizon Museum Kyobashi Timed slot, book ahead
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Walk in
The Sumida Hokusai Museum Ryogoku Walk in
Edo-Tokyo Museum Ryogoku Walk in
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum Koganei Park Walk in
Meiji Jingu Museum Yoyogi / Harajuku Walk in
Ghibli Museum, Mitaka Mitaka Advance only, no door
Fujiko F. Fujio Museum Tama-ku Advance only, no door
CUPNOODLES MUSEUM Yokohama Minato Mirai Walk in
Snoopy Museum Tokyo Minami-machida Grandberry Park Timed slot, book ahead
Tokyo Toy Museum Yotsuya Walk in, quiet days
Fukagawa Edo Museum Shirakawa Walk in
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Shirokanedai Timed slot, book ahead
The National Art Center, Tokyo Roppongi Free Walk in Free entry
The Sumo Museum Ryogoku Kokugikan Free Walk in, except basho Free entry
Meguro Parasitological Museum Shimomeguro Free Walk in Free entry
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Ueno Park Free Walk in Free entry

Which Tokyo Museum Suits The Day You Have?

Match the museum to the day, not the other way round. A first visit with limited time points to Ueno, where the Tokyo National Museum and the National Museum of Nature and Science sit in one park, but only on a day that is not a Monday. A Monday points to Roppongi, with the date caveat: the National Art Center, Tokyo is the Monday answer, and the Mori Art Museum joins it only from 31 October 2026, being shut between exhibitions from 24 September to 30 October 2026.

A rainy day suits the indoors: SMALL WORLDS TOKYO in Ariake, Madame Tussauds and the Tokyo Trick Art Museum, all in the same DECKS and Odaiba cluster. A half day suits the Artizon Museum's timed slots or the Sumida Hokusai Museum at 400 JPY. A day with children points to the Tokyo Toy Museum, KidZania Tokyo's fixed sessions or Sanrio Puroland, all of which reward booking ahead rather than turning up.

1. What kind of place are you in the mood for?
2. Does your plan need to survive a Monday?
3. How do you want to handle tickets?

To start, here is a shortlist of six well-reviewed picks from across the city. Answer a question below and the list rebuilds itself.

Which Tokyo Museums Must Be Booked Before You Fly?

Three museums cannot be bought at the door at all. The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka releases tickets at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month for the following month, first come, through Lawson Ticket only, and tickets are named, with ID checks possible and resale banned in the museum's own words. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum sells only through its own e-tix system, entered with a QR code, and no tickets exist at the museum itself. teamLab Planets TOKYO sells advance-only timed entry through its official ticket store and convenience-store systems.

A second group should be booked ahead even though a door exists. teamLab Borderless, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, the Artizon Museum, the Samurai Ninja Museum, the Snoopy Museum, KidZania Tokyo and the Teien Art Museum all run timed slots or reserved dates, and the studio tour's own page recommends booking ahead because slots sell out. Booking online is also simply cheaper at several venues: the Railway Museum is 1,500 JPY in advance against 1,600 JPY at the door, the Artizon Museum 1,200 JPY against 1,500 JPY, and the Hakone Open-Air Museum 1,800 JPY online against 2,000 JPY on the day.

Which Tokyo Museums Are Free, And What Still Costs Money?

Two museums are free to visit outright, the Sumo Museum and the Meguro Parasitological Museum, and two more let you into the building for nothing but charge for every exhibition, the National Art Center, Tokyo and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Every part of that sentence matters. The Sumo Museum is shut Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, which is exactly when most visitors are in Ryogoku, and during a Tokyo tournament you need a Grand Sumo viewing ticket to reach it. The Meguro Parasitological Museum closes Monday and Tuesday, two days a week, not one.

The two free buildings are not free museums. The National Art Center, Tokyo has no permanent collection at all, closes on Tuesdays, and its free entry covers the Kisho Kurokawa atrium, the art library, the shop and the restaurant floor, with every exhibition ticketed separately. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum works the same way: the lobby, shop and restaurants are free, ticketed exhibitions are not, and its exhibitions close every Monday. Concessions, such as free under-18 entry at the national museums or free student entry at the Artizon Museum with a reservation, are concessions, never free museums.

Art Museums In Tokyo

The art group holds the national collections and the commercial galleries. In Ueno, the Tokyo National Museum charges 1,000 JPY for its collection exhibitions and closes Mondays, with free collection days on 19 May, 21 September and 3 November 2026. The National Museum of Western Art is 500 JPY, free on the second Sunday of every month, and its permanent collection closes for maintenance from 12 January 2027 to 19 March 2027. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is free to enter with exhibitions ticketed separately. Further out, the Nezu Museum is 1,600 JPY at the door including its strolling garden, and the Sumida Hokusai Museum is 400 JPY.

The booking rules differ sharply inside this one group. The Artizon Museum runs timed entry, at 1,200 JPY online against 1,500 JPY in person, and closes Mondays. The Teien Art Museum in Shirokanedai also runs timed slots for exhibitions, with a 200 JPY garden-only ticket needing no reservation. The Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills is walk-in with no weekly closing day, but it shuts between exhibitions, including the whole stretch from 24 September to 30 October 2026, so check the exhibition calendar before building a day around it. The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is 500 JPY for its collection and is free on 1 October, Tokyo Citizens' Day.

Anime And Pop Culture Collections

This is the group where the booking rules bite hardest. The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka charges 1,000 JPY for ages 19 and over, but no ticket is ever sold at the door: entry is by date- and time-specified advance ticket through Lawson Ticket, released at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month, with the buyer's name printed on the ticket. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki works the same way, 1,000 JPY adults, sold only through the museum's own e-tix system and entered with a QR code. The Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, strictly a studio tour rather than a museum, is timed slot from 6,600 JPY.

The walk-in end of the group is easier. SMALL WORLDS TOKYO in Ariake is 3,200 JPY for adults, the Tokyo Toy Museum in Yotsuya is 1,300 JPY at the counter or 1,100 JPY online, closed Thursdays, and the Snoopy Museum in Machida is 2,200 JPY same-day against 2,000 JPY in advance. Sanrio Puroland in Tama reserves entry dates and prices by the day chosen, with under-3s free. Several of these venues run calendars rather than fixed closing days, so check each museum's own calendar before you set out.

History And Samurai Collections

The history group starts with the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku, which reopened on 31 March 2026 after a renovation of roughly four years, at 800 JPY for the permanent exhibition, closed Mondays. Its sister site, the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei Park, is 400 JPY and never closed, whatever the stale banner on its own holiday page says; it is free on 1 October and free for over-65s on the third Wednesday of each month. The Fukagawa Edo Museum is 400 JPY, closed the 2nd and 4th Mondays. The Meiji Jingu Museum is 1,000 JPY, closed Thursdays, standing inside shrine grounds that are free to enter.

Two very different experiences complete the group. The Samurai Ninja Museum Tokyo in Asakusa is a timed-slot experience at about 3,000 JPY covering entry, a guided tour, armour try-on and shuriken throwing; it is run by Maikoya and is unrelated to the permanently closed Kabukicho Samurai Museum. The Sumo Museum inside Ryogoku Kokugikan is genuinely free, but closed Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, and during a Tokyo tournament you need a Grand Sumo viewing ticket to get in at all.

Science And Nature Collections

The science group is where the biggest closure in Tokyo sits. Miraikan in Odaiba, at 630 JPY for its permanent exhibitions, closes entirely on 1 October 2026 and reopens 23 April 2027: permanent exhibitions, Geo-Cosmos, the Dome Theater, the robot area, shop, cafe and library all shut, with the last open day 30 September 2026 and advance tickets selling only one week out. Until then the walk-in science option is the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno, 630 JPY, closed Mondays, free on the permanent exhibitions on 18 May and 3 November, with parts of its Global Gallery under renovation from 8 September 2026.

Outside central Tokyo, the Railway Museum in Omiya, Saitama, is 1,600 JPY on the door or 1,500 JPY in advance through the museum's own site or convenience-store terminals, closed Tuesdays, roughly an hour from Tokyo Station with one transfer. For under-18s the Nature and Science museum is free, as it is for anyone 65 or over with proof of age, on the permanent exhibitions.

Quirky And Unusual Collections

The quirky group spans 400 JPY to 6,600 JPY and some of Tokyo's strangest doors. The Meguro Parasitological Museum is genuinely free, donations welcome, closed Monday and Tuesday. The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum is 450 JPY, closed only 31 December and 1 January, with the ramen itself paid separately inside. The Tokyo Trick Art Museum in Odaiba is 1,200 JPY. The Unko Museum in DiverCity Tokyo Plaza is date-tiered from 2,000 JPY for an adult, with same-day tickets limited. The CUPNOODLES MUSEUM Yokohama is 500 JPY, free for high school age and younger, closed Tuesdays, and sells online only through its own site.

Three entries here are attractions rather than museums, and say so plainly. Tokyo Joypolis at DECKS Tokyo Beach is an indoor amusement park, and its 1,700 JPY admission includes not one ride. Madame Tussauds Tokyo in the same complex publishes no fixed base price and saves up to 500 JPY booked online by the day before. KidZania Tokyo at LaLaport Toyosu is a role-play park where children work simulated jobs, on fixed sessions that need booking ahead, with under-2s free. Edo Wonderland in Nikko, a day trip, is 5,800 JPY for the adult one-day pass.

Is The Grutto Pass Worth It For Tokyo Museums?

Only if the arithmetic suits you. The Grutto Pass costs 2,500 JPY and is not a free-entry card: every facility on it is listed as either free entry or a discount, and the split differs per venue. Counting only the free entries on this lineup, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, MOT Collection, Sumida Hokusai Museum, Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and Fukagawa Edo Museum total exactly 2,500 JPY, so break-even needs all five, with nothing left over. Four visits leave you 400 JPY short. What actually pays is layering the discounts at the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the Nature and Science museum, the Mori Art Museum and the Teien garden.

The exclusions decide it for most visitors. The pass excludes both teamLab venues, the Ghibli Museum, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour, Sanrio Puroland, the National Art Center, Nezu, Artizon, Meiji Jingu, the Railway Museum, Hakone Open-Air, SMALL WORLDS, the Unko Museum, Madame Tussauds, Tokyo Trick Art, both Yokohama museums, Edo Wonderland and special exhibitions almost everywhere. No other Tokyo museum pass exists, and Go City does not operate a Tokyo product, so if your itinerary is built around the excluded venues, the pass is simply not relevant.

Day Trips: Yokohama, Saitama, Hakone And Nikko

Several of the 38 sit outside central Tokyo and earn a half or full day. West of the city, the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka is about 40 to 60 minutes from Shinjuku on the JR Chuo Line, with the community bus at 230 JPY each way or a 15-minute walk from the station. The Snoopy Museum at Minami-machida Grandberry Park is about 35 minutes by express from Shibuya. The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei is roughly 50 to 70 minutes from Shinjuku with one transfer.

Further out, the Railway Museum in Omiya, Saitama, is roughly 45 to 60 minutes from Tokyo Station with one transfer, and the JR segment is covered by a JR Pass. In Yokohama, the CUPNOODLES MUSEUM and the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum are both walk-in and cheap, at 500 and 450 JPY, though both close on Tuesdays. Hakone Open-Air Museum is about two to two and a half hours each way from Shinjuku, 2,000 JPY on the day or 1,800 JPY online, open 365 days a year. Edo Wonderland in Nikko is a long full day, 5,800 JPY for the adult one-day pass.

Which Tokyo Museums Are Closed Right Now?

Two closure facts sit the wrong way round in most published guides, so state them plainly. Miraikan in Odaiba closes entirely on 1 October 2026 and reopens 23 April 2027, with the last open day 30 September 2026; nothing stays open, from the Geo-Cosmos to the shop. The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku, by contrast, is open: it reopened on 31 March 2026 after a renovation of roughly four years. Its sister site, the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, is also open, and the temporarily closed banner still on its own holiday page is stale legacy text.

More closures shape the next year. The Mori Art Museum shuts between exhibitions, including every day from 24 September to 30 October 2026, with a longer renovation closure announced for September 2027 to April 2028. The National Museum of Western Art's permanent collection closes 12 January 2027 to 19 March 2027. The Tokyo National Museum closes whole on 15 December 2026 and again 26 to 31 December 2026, with only the Horyu-ji Treasures Gallery and Kuroda Memorial Hall open 22 to 25 December, and several Honkan rooms and the Toyokan close through the winter. The permanently closed Kabukicho Samurai Museum and the shuttered Gundam Factory Yokohama are not options at all.

What Visitors Ask About Tokyo Museums

Which Tokyo Museums Cannot Be Bought At The Door?

Three venues sell advance-only tickets with no door sales at all. teamLab Planets TOKYO sells timed entry through its own official ticket store, convenience-store systems and other agents. The Ghibli Museum in Mitaka sells named, date- and time-specified tickets only through Lawson Ticket, releasing them at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month for the following month, with the Sunrise Tours JTB bus tour the only other authorised route. The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki sells only through its own e-tix system, entered with a QR code. A fourth group, including teamLab Borderless and the Warner Bros. Studio Tour, uses timed slots that should be booked ahead but can sell out rather than being strictly advance-only.

How Much Do Tokyo Museums Cost?

Collection admission at the walk-in museums is modest: 400 JPY at the Sumida Hokusai, Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural and Fukagawa Edo museums, 500 JPY at the National Museum of Western Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 630 JPY at the National Museum of Nature and Science, 800 JPY at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, and 1,000 JPY at the Tokyo National Museum. At the top end, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour starts at 6,600 JPY. Several venues price by date or by exhibition, including both teamLab venues, Sanrio Puroland, Madame Tussauds and the Mori Art Museum, so those figures are shown when you pick a day or a show rather than stated as one number.

Which Tokyo Museums Are Free?

Two museums are free to visit outright, the Sumo Museum and the Meguro Parasitological Museum, and two more let you into the building for nothing but charge for every exhibition, the National Art Center, Tokyo and the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The catches matter. The Sumo Museum is closed Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, and during a Tokyo tournament you need a Grand Sumo viewing ticket to reach it. Meguro closes Monday and Tuesday. The National Art Center has no permanent collection at all and closes on Tuesdays. Never confuse free buildings with free museums, and never treat concessions like free under-18 entry at the national museums as general free admission.

When Do Ghibli Museum Tickets Go On Sale?

Tickets go on sale at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month, for the following month, first come, through Lawson Ticket only. A Lawson WEB membership and phone-number verification are required, and the member's name is printed on every ticket and cannot be changed. The museum's own words are blunt: ticket purchase for resale is not allowed. ID may be checked at the entrance, and entry may be refused if the named person is absent. There are no door sales at all. Popular slots go fast, so be ready at 10:00 on the release day. The only other authorised route is the Sunrise Tours JTB bus tour. Avoid any third-party listing: a resold ticket does not admit you.

Is The Grutto Pass Worth It For Tokyo Museums?

The pass costs 2,500 JPY and is not a free-entry card: each of its 107 facilities is listed as either free entry or a discount, and the split differs per venue. Counting only free entries against door prices, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, MOT Collection, Sumida Hokusai Museum, Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and Fukagawa Edo Museum together total exactly 2,500 JPY, so break-even needs all five. Four visits fall 400 JPY short. What actually makes the pass worthwhile is the discounts at the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art, the Nature and Science museum and elsewhere. It excludes both teamLabs, Ghibli, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour, Sanrio Puroland and special exhibitions almost everywhere.

Which Tokyo Museums Are Open On A Monday?

The trap is Ueno: the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Western Art and the National Museum of Nature and Science all close on Mondays, following the convention that a holiday Monday opens and closes the next weekday instead. The Monday answer is Roppongi, five minutes apart, but it depends on the date. The National Art Center, Tokyo opens Monday and closes Tuesday instead. The Mori Art Museum has no weekly closing day but shuts between exhibitions, and it is closed every day from 24 September to 30 October 2026, so during that window the Monday answer in Roppongi is the National Art Center alone. Odaiba's venues and Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum also open on Mondays.

Is The Miraikan Closed?

Yes, for a long stretch. Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Odaiba, closes entirely on 1 October 2026 and reopens 23 April 2027, with the last open day 30 September 2026. The closure is whole-museum: permanent exhibitions, the Geo-Cosmos, the Dome Theater GAIA, the robot area, the shop, the cafe and the library all shut, and no satellite venue has been announced. Advance tickets sell only one week out, so no date inside the closure window is purchasable anywhere. Most published Tokyo guides still send people there. Until the reopening, the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno is the walk-in science option, at 630 JPY, closed Mondays.

Is The Edo-Tokyo Museum Open?

Yes. The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku reopened on 31 March 2026 after a renovation of roughly four years, and most published guides still say closed, so this is the closure fact they have the wrong way round. Admission to the permanent exhibition is 800 JPY, bought at the first-floor counter on the day or online in advance, and the museum closes on Mondays, opening instead when that Monday is a national holiday. Its sister site, the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, never closed and is open now, whatever the stale banner on its own holiday page says. Entry there is 400 JPY, and it is also open on Mondays.

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