Museum

Tokyo National Museum

Address: 13-9 Uenokoen, Taito City, Tokyo
Area: Tokyo, Japan

Mon: Closed
Tue: 09:30–17:00
Wed: 09:30–17:00
Thu: 09:30–17:00
Fri: 09:30–20:00
Sat: 09:30–20:00
Sun: 09:30–17:00
Hours: Last entry is 30 minutes before closing. Hours and opening days may change for holidays and special events; when Monday is a holiday, the museum opens Monday and closes Tuesday.
Price: Collection exhibitions: adults ¥1,000, university students ¥500; elementary, middle and high school students and people under 18 or over 70 enter free. Special exhibitions are charged separately.
How to visit: Visitors enter through the Main Gate. Tickets for the collection exhibitions can be bought on site; a special-exhibition ticket also includes same-day entry to the collection exhibitions.
Hours: Ticket required
Hours: About 90 min

Why it is worth the detour

Japan's oldest and largest museum (1872): samurai swords, Buddhist sculpture, kimono and the Horyu-ji treasures.

The Tokyo National Museum is Japan's oldest and largest museum, located in Ueno Park. It houses a vast collection of Asian art and cultural objects, including samurai swords and Buddhist sculptures.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

400 m
National Museum of Western Art
Le Corbusier's only building in East Asia (1959, UNESCO), built around the Matsukata collection of Monet and Rodin.
550 m
Ueno Toshogu Shrine
A gilded 1651 shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu that survived the 1868 battle, the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 raids intact.
600 m
Former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen Station
This unexpectedly grand little station opened in 1933 on former Imperial land to serve Ueno Zoo and the museums. Falling passenger numbers ended service in 1997, but its Western-style entrance survived closure and redevelopment as a sealed architectural ghost beside Ueno Park, occasionally opened for special programs.
900 m
Ueno Park
The former grounds of the powerful Kaneiji temple became a battlefield in 1868 and later Tokyo's great museum and cherry-blossom park.
900 m
Yanaka Cemetery
This atmospheric cemetery contains the grave of the last Tokugawa shogun and preserves the quiet, temple-filled character of old Yanaka.
1.0 km
Ameyoko Market
A post-war black market under the Yamanote tracks that became a 400-metre bazaar of fish, candy, sneakers and spices.