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Tokyo
Japan's oldest and largest museum, holding the world's greatest collection of samurai swords, Buddhist art and national treasures.
Japan's national science museum, packed with dinosaur skeletons, a blue whale, and the taxidermied dog Hachiko.
Japan's only national museum devoted to Western art, in a UNESCO-listed Le Corbusier building with Monet, Rodin and Renoir.
Japan's first national art museum, tracing Japanese modern art from 1900 through vivid Nihonga and postwar avant-garde.
Bold contemporary-art museum on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills, with a skyline observation deck on the same ticket.
A vast, collection-free art center behind an undulating glass facade by Kisho Kurokawa, hosting Tokyo's biggest exhibitions.
An exquisite pre-modern Asian art collection behind a Kengo Kuma facade, wrapped around a hidden strolling garden.
Hayao Miyazaki's whimsical museum of Studio Ghibli, with an exclusive short film, a life-size Catbus and a rooftop robot.
Tokyo's hands-on future-science museum on Odaiba, home to robots, a live Earth globe and a domed planetarium.
A sleek museum devoted to Katsushika Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave, in the Ryogoku neighbourhood where he was born.
Hakone
Hakone's flagship art museum, hiding a world-class Impressionist collection inside a glass pavilion sunk into the forest.
Five floors of East Asian art behind a colossal Fūjin-Raijin mural, with a garden and hot-spring footbath.
Hakone's oldest museum, pairing ancient Japanese ceramics with a spellbinding moss-and-maple garden.
1,500 dazzling works by glass and jewellery master René Lalique, plus tea in a real Orient Express carriage.
Modern Japanese-style paintings with a panoramic lounge framing Mt Fuji, Lake Ashi and Hakone Shrine's torii.
Japan's first Venetian glass museum, with a sparkling crystal-glass garden and a slice of Murano in the Hakone hills.
The home of Hakone marquetry, showing centuries of intricate 'yosegi-zaiku' woodwork and secret puzzle boxes.
An intimate Gōra gallery devoted to fine-art photography of Mt Fuji and the Hakone landscape.
Kyoto
Kyoto's premier art museum, home to national treasures of Japanese and Asian art in the Higashiyama temple district.
A vast, hands-on railway museum with 53 real trains, a working roundhouse and rides on a genuine steam locomotive.
Kyoto's grand civic art museum, a restored 1933 landmark with a bold glass entrance and strong modern Japanese collection.
A refined national collection of modern art strong in Kyoto ceramics, crafts and Nihonga, in a Fumihiko Maki building.
A city-history museum telling 1,200 years of Kyoto, with a reconstructed Edo merchant street and a landmark red-brick annex.
The showcase of Kyoto's famed Nishijin silk weaving, with live loom demonstrations and free daily kimono fashion shows.
