MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
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A hand-picked shortlist of the 8 tokyo museums travellers rate highest, with the prices, the run times and who you actually book each one through.
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Tokyo’s Samurai Ninja Museum guided tour blends armor exhibits, English storytelling, shuriken throwing, and samurai dress-up for $27.
“We had such a fantastic time visiting the Samurai Museum with Ken (I think!) as our guide. The visit was super engaging and fun for the kids — they were captivated from start to finish — and we adults also learned a lot along the way. The format was just right: not too short, not…”
A family-friendly ninja adventure at Samurai Ninja Museum TOKYO with dress-up photo ops, hands-on weapon practice, and a ninja treasure hunt.
“Fun hands on experience! Got Ninja training and learned about samurai’s and robins, as well as seeing authentic weapons and armor! Kids has a blast!”
A guided Studio Ghibli day trip from Shinjuku: Hotel Gajoen buffet lunch, Edo-Tokyo architecture, and Mitaka museum time.
“Highly recommend for any Studio Ghibli fan. The lunch and architecture museum prior was really good and certainly added to the experience and understanding of what influenced Ghibli.”
Train in basic iaido like a real samurai, enjoy a samurai and ninja museum ticket, and finish with safe sword sparring in Asakusa.
“So much fun and the museum part was very interesting. Woyld definately recommend this experience. Everyone was very helpful.”
Suit up in samurai gear, learn katana basics, tour a Samurai and Ninja museum, and try shuriken. English guide, 2 hours, $63.
Art Aquarium Museum GINZA inside Ginza Mitsukoshi—goldfish in light, music, and scent. Photo friendly, about 1 hour.
Dress as a samurai, learn safe katana moves, try ninja weapons, then tour the Samurai and Ninja Museum in Asakusa.
“Amazing and fun! The handling of swords were my favourite and the costuming as well as the history and artefacts! The hosts were all funny and easy to understand!”
