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Art Museum and Museum will fill your inquisitive mind. Take Tokyo National Museum as an example which is the first museum in Japan that has broad genre of display both Japanese and Oriental art, industrial art objects, on the other hand, there is a museum as Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography stick to the one theme by limiting display only for photos and visual films. Also Mitsuo Aita Museum, Little Prince Museum are not just the information of literature themselves but you can study interesting personalities of its authors. Mitsuo Aita who are a calligrapher and poet wrote poem what he felt by facing himself in casual and unique manner that it spoke to its reader directly which caused great attention, also the French writher Saint Exupery who were also life-long flyboy wrote best sellers as The Little Prince, Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars. The more you know about the background of the authors, you will be inquire to know more about them.

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES LIST

  • Nezu Museum
    Nezu Museum
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    Nezu Museum was founded in 1940 to preserve and exhibit the private collection of the renowned entrepreneur Nezu Kaichiro (1860-1940), the founder of ...
  • Mitsuo Aida Museum
    Mitsuo Aida Museum
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    The Mitsuo Aida Museum is a place where the public can come face to face with the many deeply resonating works left behind by the calligrapher and poe ...
  • Museum of Contemprary ART Tokyo
    Museum of Contemprary ART Tokyo
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    Boasting a collection of roughly 4,000 works, the Museum features permanent exhibitions where visitors can view the highlights of modern art along wit ...
  • Subway Museum
    Subway Museum
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    The Subway Museum was built out of a desire for more people - including young people such as primary and middle schoolers - to better understand the s ...
  • National Museum of Nature and Science
    National Museum of Nature and Science
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    The National Museum of Nature and Science is one of the longest standing museums in Japan, and is the only national museum dedicated to integrated sci ...
  • The National Museum of Western Art
    The National Museum of Western Art
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    The National Museum of Western Art was inaugurated in 1959 to familiarize Japanese public with Western arts. The museum houses the famous Matsukata Co ...
  • Tokyo National Museum
    Tokyo National Museum
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    The Tokyo National Museum is Japan's first museum. Its collection includes over 110,000 items, and centers around ancient works of Japanese and Orient ...
  • GoFa
    GoFa
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    Japan creates the most incredible anime, manga, SFX and video games in the world with its distinctive skills and historical background. Tokyo is regar ...
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
    Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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    Since its inauguration in 1990 as Japan's first museum specializing in photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has been dedicated to the ...
  • Kyu-Furukawa Teien (Garden)
    Kyu-Furukawa Teien (Garden)
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    Located on the southern hill of the Musashino Terrace, Kyu-Furukawa Teien (Kyu-Furukawa Gardens) is a park best known as a rare example of a Japanese- ...
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