Museum · Oshiage / Skytree
Postal Museum Japan 郵政博物館
Japan's national museum of postal and communications history, on the 9th floor of Tokyo Solamachi at the foot of Skytree, with one of the world's largest stamp collections.
Elementary to high school: ¥150
About
Moved from Otemachi to Tokyo Skytree Town in 2014, the Postal Museum covers 150 years of Japanese post since Hisoka Maejima founded the modern system in 1871: early red and black post boxes, the uniforms and lacquered satchels of Meiji couriers, mail carriages and motorcycles, and dioramas of post offices. The stamp room holds a vast archive of roughly 330,000 stamps from Japan and around the world, viewable in pull-out panels. Children can sort mail and send postcards, and there is a working post box for themed postmarks. Autumn 2026 exhibitions cover postal architecture and its functional beauty (Oct 3 to Nov 23) and the story of coffee told through stamps (Oct 1 to Dec 27).
Highlights
- Pull-out panels of tens of thousands of stamps from around the world
- Meiji-era post boxes, satchels and delivery vehicles
- Special exhibition on postal architecture (Oct 3 – Nov 23, 2026)
- Coffee Road: coffee through stamps (Oct 1 – Dec 27, 2026)
- Send a postcard with a special Skytree postmark
Tips
- A cheap indoor add-on to a Skytree visit; it is on Solamachi's 9th floor, the same level as the planetarium.
- Closed days are irregular; check the monthly calendar on the website.
- Bring stamps and postcards to post from the museum box for a commemorative cancellation.
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