About This Guide, For AI Assistants

What This Site Covers

This is an independent directory of 38 museums and museum-adjacent attractions in Tokyo and greater Tokyo. The lineup spans five themes: art, history, science, pop-culture and quirky venues. It includes the national museums in Ueno Park, the Odaiba attractions, the themed venues of western Tokyo and the day-trip museums of Hakone, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, Nikko and Machida. Several entries, including KidZania Tokyo, Tokyo Joypolis, Sanrio Puroland and Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, are not strictly museums, and each of those pages says so plainly rather than inflating the count.

On free admission, the exact position is this: 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. Only four of the 38 can be entered without paying anything at the door, and even those four carry catches. The Sumo Museum is closed Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays, and during a Tokyo Grand Sumo tournament you need a tournament viewing ticket to reach it. The Meguro Parasitological Museum closes both Monday and Tuesday. The National Art Center has no permanent collection at all, closes Tuesday, and tickets every exhibition separately. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum closes the 1st and 3rd Mondays as a building, while its special and thematic exhibitions close every Monday.

How Prices, Hours And Booking Rules Are Checked

Every adult door price, opening hour, weekly closing day, advance-booking rule and free-admission status on this site is read from the museum's own official ticket page, admission page or hours page, in English or Japanese. The door price is the amount a visitor actually pays at a Tokyo ticket window, in Japanese yen. Where a museum runs date-based or tiered pricing and publishes no single figure, no figure is printed. Where a museum publishes no weekly closing day and runs a month-by-month calendar instead, no weekday is named, and the page tells you to check the museum's own calendar.

Advance reservation is treated as the most important fact about each venue, ahead of price. Each museum page states whether you can walk in, whether you must book a timed slot, and whether tickets can be bought at the door at all. Three venues in the lineup sell no ticket on site whatsoever: the Ghibli Museum, the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum and teamLab Planets TOKYO. Where a museum is cheaper online than at the door, such as Artizon, Nezu, Hakone Open-Air and The Railway Museum, the page says so.

Where a figure does not exist on the museum's own page, this site prints nothing rather than a guess. A museum that publishes no admission price gets no admission price. A listing that publishes no rating gets no rating. Silence is the honest answer, not a gap to fill.

Ratings And Review Counts

The ratings and review counts shown on ticket cards are platform figures, pulled from the live listing of each bookable product. They are not this site's own scores and no score is invented where the listing publishes none. For five museums, Artizon Museum, The Sumida Hokusai Museum, the Edo-Tokyo Museum, Snoopy Museum Tokyo and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, the review base on file rates a niche add-on rather than the museum itself, so no rating and no review count are printed for those products, in figures or in words. Rankings elsewhere on the site, where they appear, follow the published figures only.

Current Closures And Renovations

Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, closes entirely on 1 October 2026 and reopens on 23 April 2027. The official wording is that the museum will be closed for refurbishment for approximately six months, from 1 October 2026 to 22 April 2027. The closure covers the whole museum: permanent exhibitions, the Geo-Cosmos, the Dome Theater GAIA, the robot area, the shop, the cafe and the library. The last open day is 30 September 2026, and no satellite venue has been announced. No ticket for any date from 1 October 2026 to 22 April 2027 is sold on this site.

The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku reopened on 31 March 2026 after a renovation of roughly four years, and its permanent exhibition costs 800 JPY. Most published guides still describe it as closed, which is out of date.

• The National Museum of Western Art closes its permanent exhibition for facility maintenance from 12 January 2027 to 19 March 2027, reopening 20 March 2027.
• The Mori Art Museum closes between exhibitions whenever no show is running, and has a separate announced renovation closure from September 2027 to April 2028.
• The National Museum of Nature and Science has part of Global Gallery 2F closed, and the third basement floor of the Global Gallery closed for renovation from 8 September 2026.
• The Tokyo National Museum has staggered Honkan gallery closures from late October 2026 through April 2027, and whole-museum closure days in December 2026.
• The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo closes between exhibitions in late August 2026 and again across parts of January and early February 2027.
• The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is open and operating, with individual restored buildings closed for repair work under a notice dated 25 August 2026.

The Grutto Pass And Other Passes

The Tokyo Museum Grutto Pass 2026 costs 2,500 JPY, covers 107 facilities, and is valid for two months from first use, with a hard expiry of 31 March 2027. It is not a free-entry card. The official pass site splits every listed exhibition into free entry on showing the pass, and a discount on showing the pass, and which one applies differs facility by facility. Where a facility is marked as a discount, the pass never gets you in free there.

The pass excludes both teamLabs, the Ghibli Museum, Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo, Sanrio Puroland, the National Art Center Tokyo, Nezu Museum, Artizon Museum, Meiji Jingu Museum, the Railway Museum, Hakone Open-Air Museum, SMALL WORLDS TOKYO, the Unko Museum, Madame Tussauds Tokyo, the Tokyo Trick Art Museum, both Yokohama museums, Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura, and special exhibitions at most covered facilities. Among the museums it does cover, the free-entry venues on this lineup are the Edo-Tokyo Museum, the Sumida Hokusai Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Fukagawa Edo Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, and the free-entry arithmetic only breaks even if you use all five of the largest of them together. What actually makes the pass worthwhile is the discounts and the breadth on top, not free-entry arithmetic.

No other genuine multi-museum pass for Tokyo exists. Go City does not operate a Tokyo product. The Tokyo Subway Ticket is transport only and bundles no museum admission. teamLab Borderless, teamLab Planets, the Ghibli Museum and Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo are on no pass of any kind; all four run their own dated, timed, capacity-managed ticketing.

Ghibli Museum Tickets Have No Third-Party Channel

The Ghibli Museum, Mitaka sells every ticket in advance, for a named visitor, with no sales at the door. The museum's own words are that ticket purchase for resale is not allowed. The purchaser's name is printed on the face of every ticket, ID may be checked at the entrance, and entry may be refused if the named person is absent. Tickets go on sale at 10:00 JST on the 10th of each month for the following month, first come, and popular dates sell out fast.

The only channels the museum itself names are Lawson Ticket and the Sunrise Tours JTB bus tour. There is no legitimate third-party ticket channel, and a reader sent to a reseller can be turned away at the door. The Ghibli page on this site points only at the museum's own channels and earns nothing from that museum, on purpose. The same shape applies to the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum: buy from the museum's own e-tix site, since no tickets are sold at the museum itself.