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Best Museum in Osaka

16 places, each checked by our team.

• Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda カップヌードルミュージアム 大阪池田Ikeda — The birthplace of instant ramen in the suburb of Ikeda, where Momofuku Ando invented Chicken Ramen in 1958 in a backyard shed; free exhibits and a…
• Fujita Museum of Art 藤田美術館Kyobashi / Amijima — A private museum of Japanese and Chinese treasures, rebuilt in 2022 as a glass-fronted pavilion with a free tea-and-dango stand; home to one of only…
• Japan Mint Museum and Cherry Blossom Passage 造幣博物館・桜の通り抜けTenma / Okawa — The free museum of the Japan Mint in a Meiji-era brick building, with coins, medals and minting machines; for one week in mid-April the riverside…
• Kids Plaza Osaka キッズプラザ大阪Ogimachi — A big indoor children's museum where kids can run a TV studio, play in a water area and climb through a colourful wooden "Kids Town" designed by the…
• Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka 大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館Nakanoshima — One of the world's great collections of Chinese and Korean ceramics in a quiet building on Nakanoshima, including two National Treasures and a…
• National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) 国立民族学博物館Suita / Expo Park — One of the world's largest ethnology museums, with everyday and ritual objects from every continent, inside Expo '70 Commemorative Park.
• Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farm Houses 日本民家集落博物館Toyonaka / Hattori Ryokuchi — Japan's first open-air museum of traditional houses, with relocated farmhouses from across the country set in woodland inside Hattori Ryokuchi Park.
• Osaka Museum of History 大阪歴史博物館Tanimachi / Osaka Castle — A history museum you visit from the top down, starting on the 10th floor in a life-size reconstruction of the 7th-century Naniwa Palace hall, with…
• Osaka Museum of Housing and Living 大阪くらしの今昔館Tenjinbashi — A full-size Edo-period Osaka street of the 1830s rebuilt indoors on the 9th floor of an office building, where you can walk through shops and…
• Osaka Museum of Natural History 大阪市立自然史博物館Nagai — A natural history museum in Nagai Park with a 16-metre fin whale skeleton outside the door, dinosaurs and a Naumann elephant inside, and…
• Osaka Science Museum 大阪市立科学館Nakanoshima — A hands-on science museum on Nakanoshima with one of the largest planetarium domes in Japan, four floors of experiments and live science shows, and…
• Sakai City Museum 堺市博物館Sakai / Mozu — The museum of Sakai's history in Daisen Park, beside Japan's largest kofun, with a VR theatre that flies you over the Mozu tombs and exhibits on…
• Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko さかい利晶の杜Sakai — A museum in Sakai's old town devoted to two famous locals, tea master Sen no Rikyu and poet Yosano Akiko, with a recreated tearoom and an affordable…
• Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum (Sakai Denshokan) 堺伝匠館Sakai — Free showcase of Sakai's traditional industries, best known for its knife museum and a large shop selling Sakai-made kitchen knives.
• Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum 司馬遼太郎記念館Higashiosaka — A Tadao Ando-designed museum next to the house of Japan's best-loved historical novelist, centred on an 11-metre-high wall of 20,000 books lit…
• Shimano Bicycle Museum シマノ自転車博物館Sakai — A free museum on the history and engineering of the bicycle, run by Sakai-based component maker Shimano's foundation.