Exhibitions & museums

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Time Out OsakaKansaiNew Ghibli exhibitions coming to Osaka and Kyoto later this year Osaka will recreate a mini version of the Ghibli Park while Kyoto explores Ghibli themes through a Zen lens

September 24

BRUTUSTokyoあなたの国で今、若者が集まるデートスポットは？：BRUTUS CITY JOURNAL 🇨🇳 進化を遂げる美術館、博物館が知的＆おしゃれなデートスポットに中国／北京近年、中国では各地の公共博物館、美術館に予算が投じられ、急速なバージョンアップが進む。展示内容の充実はもちろん、館内にカフェやミュージアムシ

September 23

MATCHAGoAbashiri Prison Museum: Highlights, Tickets and Access Visit Abashiri Prison Museum in Hokkaido for historic prison buildings, Golden Kamuy locations, unique prison meals, ticket details, and access information.

September 17

Tokyo CheapoTokyoteamLab TOKYO: New Museum To Open in Ariake in 2032 Tokyo is getting a third teamLab museum, and it’s going to be big. teamLab TOKYO (that’s the tentative name) is planned for Ariake, on the waterfront next to Odaiba, with an opening tentatively…

September 16

Tokyo CheapoTokyoteamLab Planets vs Borderless: Which One Should You Book? Tokyo has two teamLab museums, and despite the shared name, they offer very different days out. teamLab Planets in Toyosu sends you barefoot through knee-deep water; teamLab Borderless in Azabudai…

August 26

Japan CheapoGoThe Kyoto Nintendo Museum: Everything You Need To Know From viral Singing Toads to an interactive tech playground with giant controllers, The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto has plenty to excite fans worldwide.

June 19

Day by Day Japan plans a first trip to Japan the way a friend who lives here would: one day at a time, with the trains and the prices written down.

Each route is a real day or weekend: where to go first, how long the walk or the train takes, what the ticket costs and where to eat on the way. Prices come from the operator's or the place's own published fares and carry the date they were checked; where we have not checked a price, the route says so instead of guessing. If it rains, the route has a plan B.

Around the routes sits the week in Japan. Every few hours the site reads the Japanese city and food press and the English-language desks in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka, and puts the places they name on one map. Headlines stay in the language they were written in, every story links to its source, and we quote no more than a line.

The routes and notes are written by one editor under a pen name, Sora Nakamura, drafted with AI assistance from checked material and read before they go out. Day by Day Japan is independent: no advertisers, no affiliate links, no bookings.