Yokohama & Kamakura · Sights

Best Museum in Yokohama & Kamakura

14 places, each checked by our team.

• Bluff No. 111 (Yamate 111-bankan) 山手111番館Yamate / Motomachi — Free 1926 Spanish-style Western residence by J.H. Morgan on the Yamate Bluff, with an open hall and a rose-garden cafe.
• Enoura Observatory 江之浦測候所Odawara (Enoura) — Hiroshi Sugimoto's art and architecture site on the Odawara coast, with structures aligned to the solstice sunrises over the sea.
• Hakone Glass no Mori Museum 箱根ガラスの森美術館Hakone (Sengokuhara) — Venetian glass museum in Sengokuhara, with Italian-style buildings, a garden of glass sculptures and live canzone music.
• Hara Model Railway Museum 原鉄道模型博物館Yokohama Station — Large model railway museum near Yokohama Station, built around Nobutaro Hara's 6,000-piece collection and a huge running layout.
• Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum (Nihon Minkaen) 川崎市立日本民家園Kawasaki (Mukogaoka-Yuen / Ikuta Ryokuchi) — Open-air museum with 25 Edo-period farmhouses, merchant homes and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan to a wooded Kawasaki hillside.
• Mitsubishi Minatomirai Industrial Museum 三菱みなとみらい技術館Minato Mirai — Hands-on science and technology museum by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with rocket engines, a deep-sea sub model and simulators.
• Narukawa Art Museum 成川美術館Hakone (Moto-Hakone, Lake Ashi) — Nihonga (modern Japanese-style painting) museum above Lake Ashi, with a panorama lounge facing Mt. Fuji and Hakone Shrine's lake torii.
• Okada Museum of Art 岡田美術館Hakone (Kowakudani) — Large Hakone museum of Japanese, Chinese and Korean art, from ancient bronzes and ceramics to Edo-period painting.
• POLA Museum of Art ポーラ美術館Hakone (Sengokuhara) — Forest-set Hakone museum known for Impressionist and modern art, including Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Picasso.
• Sail Training Ship Nippon Maru & Yokohama Port Museum 帆船日本丸・横浜みなと博物館Minato Mirai / Sakuragicho — A 1930 tall ship, a national Important Cultural Property, docked in Minato Mirai, with a museum on Yokohama port history beside it.
• Silk Museum シルク博物館Yamashita / Nihon-Odori — Museum near Yamashita Park on Japan's silk trade, which built Yokohama, with kimono, silk textiles and live silkworms.
• The Hakone Open-Air Museum 彫刻の森美術館Hakone (Gora) — Japan's first open-air art museum, with large outdoor sculptures set on hillside lawns, plus a Picasso pavilion and indoor galleries.
• The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama 神奈川県立近代美術館 葉山館Hayama — Kanagawa's modern art museum on Isshiki Beach in Hayama, with sea views, a garden of sculptures and a seaside restaurant.
• Yokohama Museum of Art 横浜美術館Minato Mirai — Kenzo Tange-designed art museum in Minato Mirai, reopened in 2025 with a free central 'Jiyu Area' and changing exhibitions.