Tokyo boasts quite a few small size museums that diverge from the traditional government-funded, monolithic, historical model we are familiar with in America (think Washington's Museum of Natural Hist...
The Shitamachi Musuem is dedicated to depicting the "Edo way of life" and Shitamachi cityscape from the Taisho period to the present. (Shitamachi=literally: down town, but refers to traditional workin...
This art museum is the only gallery in Tokyo where you can admire the work of the Taisho-era artist Yumeji Takehisa. Takeshita lived from 1884 to 1934 and is one of the foremost artists and poets of t...
The Seiko Institute of Horology was opened in 1981 to commemorate Seiko's 100th year anniversary. Seiko's collection is centered on historic pieces such as the first wristwatch made in Japan and the ...