Guides To Tokyo Museums And Collections
How to plan a museum day, which passes save money, and the collection highlights worth your time, written for real visits rather than guesswork.
Planning Your Visit
Planning
What To Book Ahead
The advance-reservation map of Tokyo museums: which sell at the door, which are timed-slot, and which cannot be walked into at all.
Planning
Rainy Day Museums
Where to go in Tokyo when it will not stop raining, sorted by dry time and indoor access.
Planning
Museums With Kids
Which Tokyo museums actually hold a child, which let them touch things, and which need booking ahead.
Planning
Grutto Pass Worth It
What the 2,500 JPY Grutto Pass really covers, what it excludes, and the honest break-even math.
Planning
Free Museums
Which Tokyo museums are genuinely free, which only look free, and the free days and walking tours that fill the gaps.
Museum By Museum
Museums
Art Museums
The two teamLab worlds, the Ueno nationals and the quiet art houses, sorted by what you want to look at.
Museums
Planets vs Borderless
The head to head between Tokyo's two teamLab venues: water, price, booking windows and which one to pick.
Museums
Anime Museums
Which character museums are actually in Tokyo, which are day trips, and which cannot be bought at the door.
Museums
Samurai And Sumo
What is open after the Kabukicho samurai museum closed, plus where to find swords and sumo culture.
Tokyo And Beyond
Planning
Museum Day Trips
Which museums near Tokyo justify the train fare, and what each trip really costs.
Planning
Ueno Park Museums
Four major museums on one lawn, and every one of the nationals shuts on a Monday.