Tokyo Museum Guide

This Japan travel companion is a complete guide to over 195 fascinating museums in Tokyo, Yokahoma, and Chiba.

Tokyo affords no better—or cheaper—day trip than a visit to one of its many fascinating museums. Now for the first time in English is a complete guide to all the museums, large and small, general and specific, in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas.

Tokyo has everything for the expert and the casual observer alike. Superb exhibits include the collection of Oriental antiquities at the Tokyo National Museum and an old-Tokyo neighborhood recreated in the Fukagawa Edo Museum. Whatever your interests—from poetry to parasites—Tokyo has a museum for you. The authors, Thomas and Ellen Flannigan, who personally visited all the museums, give excellent advice on what to see and what to avoid.