39°C! Japan is in summer heat mode, and for those who are afraid of heat stroke these 9 air-conditioned indoor attractions are bookmarked in advance!

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🤗 Tōkyō, capital of Japan

1、Tokyo National New Art Museum 📍Roppongi 7-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo

The New National Art Museum is the largest art museum in Japan, and with an exhibition area of 14,000 square meters, it is a superstar among Japanese art museums.

In addition to the museum, which was designed under the concept of "an art museum in the forest," there are 12 exhibition rooms, an art library, a lecture hall, a training room, and other facilities. The curved glass curtain wall on the south side of the museum, which is as graceful and tense as an undulating wave, and the conical main entrance create a unique appearance.

Both the building and the exhibition are well worth seeing.

2、Nezu Museum of Art 📍6-chome, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

The Nezu Museum of Art is located in a spacious and elegant mansion in Tokyo, with a garden pond and several tea rooms in the courtyard. It was converted from Kaichiro Nezu's former residence to preserve and exhibit his life's work.

The collection now consists of Kaichiro Nezu's private collection and gifts from several other private collectors, totaling more than 7,400 items, including calligraphy, paintings, sculpture, porcelain, lacquer, metalwork, bamboo, textiles, etc., of which seven have been recognized as national treasures of Japan.

The art museum was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, and a 17,000-square-meter garden inside the Nezu Museum of Art is another major attraction here.

3、teamlab Planets 📍Toyosu 6-chome, Koto-ku, Tokyo

This place is now a perennial top 1 favorite spot for foreign tourists traveling to Japan.

teamLab Boundless is a "museum without a map" consisting of art clusters without boundaries created by the art team teamLab.

From the entrance, visitors can go from room to room and keep experiencing different artworks. Moreover, through lighting, mirrors, and interactive installations, visitors can have a relationship with the works in the room, interacting with them and sometimes merging into one. It is also through these works that a continuous world without boundaries is constructed.

For example, this year's big hit, The Floating Garden, is well worth a visit. However, the floating garden has a time limit for the experience, with each group of visitors going in able to stay for about 5 minutes. teamLab Planets limits the number of people who can enter each day, so be sure to buy your tickets online first.

PS: You have to take off your shoes to go here, and it's summer, so you get the idea ~hhh

🤗 Osaka

1、Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art 4-3-1 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka City

The Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art, located in the Nakanoshima district, is probably the most famous art museum in Osaka.

A giant black cube with the appearance of a floating object, the building has five floors. Because Nakanoshima is located on a sandbar between the Dojima River and the Tosabori River, there is a possibility that it could be flooded, so to ensure the safety of the works of art, Nakanoshima's works of art are arranged in the space above the third floor.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors are open to public space and are connected to the surrounding landscape, and the crisscrossing internal passageways enable visitors to see the Nakanoshima landscape from different angles through the building's facade, which has a very geometric texture.

The museum's collection, featuring representative works of art from home and abroad from the second half of the 19th century to the present, has more than 6,000 items and is a reason why many people go to see it.

2、Osaka National Museum of International Art 4-2-55 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka City

One of Japan's national art museums, built in 1977. but, this is not the old one, the current Osaka National Museum of International Art was relocated to Nakanoshima from Manbo Memorial Park in 2004.

The exterior of the new museum mimics the gesture of bamboo breaking out of the ground, and the design of the main body of the museum is almost entirely hidden in the underground space (Japanese art museums really like to put their buildings underground), which was designed with reference to the principle of designing the outer wall of a submarine with a triple-hulled ship, mainly to prevent problems such as water seepage.

The museum has a collection of about 8,000 items and also holds several charming special exhibitions each year, so those who want to enjoy modern art from home and abroad should not miss it!

3、Osaka Urakiyo-e Museum 📍6-4, Namba 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka City

In the Edo period (1603-1868), the Osaka and Kyoto areas were often called Kamikochi, and Kamikochi ukiyo-e is the art that originated from the Kamikochi area.

Ukiyo-e, as the name suggests, is "painting in the floating world," which is also known as Japanese genre painting and printmaking. It is one of the representative arts and cultures of Japan, and it is an art with unique national characteristics that emerged during the Edo period (1603-1868).

The core idea revealed by the word "Ukiyo" is more like saying that life is short and impermanent and one should have fun in time. For this reason, more than 70% of the paintings are of prostitutes and kabuki, and the Urakami Ukiyo-e is one of the few inherited ukiyo-e galleries that mainly depicts kabuki performers in the Urakami neighborhood.

Also, this place allows you to experience making ukiyo-e, but you have to make a reservation in advance on the official website.

🤗 Kyoto, Japan

1、Kyoto National Museum 📍527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

Groundbreaking for the Kyoto National Museum began in 1892, and the building was completed in 1895 after three years. In May 1897, it began to exhibit important cultural relics as the "Imperial Kyoto Museum". It was not until April 1952 that the name was changed to Kyoto National Museum in accordance with an amendment to the Cultural Properties Protection Law.

The main exhibition space is divided into the old and new halls, with the new hall displaying archaeology, ceramics, sculptures, paintings, calligraphy, dyeing and weaving, lacquerware, and goldsmith's wares from Japan, China, and Korea.

The Old Museum, whose building itself is a cultural asset, has a collection that focuses on the period from the 11th century to the Shogunate period, centering on works of art from ancient Japan, and more than 88,800 works of art and crafts from ancient Asia, including 87 national treasures such as the statue of the Bodhisattva Pusheen, the Pine Woods Picture Screen, the Heiji Monogatari Eigyoshi (illustrated words), and the Paik's Poetry Scrolls. In addition to permanent exhibitions, there are about two to three special exhibitions inside every year.

2、Kyocera Art Museum 124 Okazaki Maruyoshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Japan

Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art is the predecessor of the Kyoto City Museum of Art, which was built in 1933 as the second public art museum in Japan after the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. Designed by Kenjiro Maeda, the museum is one of the representative buildings of the so-called "Imperial Crown Style," which is a fusion of Japanese and Western styles, with a Japanese-style roof on top of a Western-style building.

Opened in 1933, nearly 90 years ago, this museum has been a favorite of people in and outside of Kyoto, and has a collection of more than 2,000 items, including modern Japanese paintings, Western paintings, sculptures, and prints from Kyoto after the Meiji era.

Due to problems such as outdated facilities and lack of exhibition space, the Kyoto City Museum of Art launched a refurbishment program in 2014 and openly recruited for naming rights. kyocera Corporation took the title for 5 billion yen and commissioned architects Jun Aoki and Tetsuo Nishizawa to design it. in 2019 the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto City was officially unveiled.

A new museum, the Higashiyama Cube, has been added, and the most striking feature in the central hall is the elegant spiral staircase that runs the length of the 16-meter-high floor, forming a hub that connects the various floors. The museum houses a collection of modern Japanese paintings, Western paintings, sculptures, and artifacts, and also holds exhibitions from time to time.

The revitalized Kyocera Art Museum is a place where the old meets the new, and the classical meets the contemporary.

3、Kyoto Railway Museum

📍Kanki-ji-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

I don't know if you've noticed, but Kyoto has a special feature that some of them, even though they are called art museums, the buildings themselves are basically old, in addition to their design and collections.

So let's add a new one that you can take your kids to - the Kyoto Railway Museum.

Opened in 2016, the Kyoto Railway Museum displays a wide variety of actual vehicles, each full of history and charm. It is a place where railroad fans can have fun learning about the history of the railroads and the history of Japan's modernization.

The museum's permanent exhibits are: a display of Japan's railroad history on the first floor, an experiential display on the second floor with a restaurant and lounge, and on the third floor you can look out over Kyoto Station and see the various vehicles traveling around Kyoto from a distance. If it's not raining, you can visit the fan-shaped garage, a nationally designated important cultural property, and the turntable where the steam locomotives circulate, and take a ride on the "SL Noiriba" steam locomotive, which is actually in operation.

Compared to the museums and galleries above, this is a great place to see and play, so children will not be bored.

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Of course, apart from these places, there are many other places that are worth visiting, such as the Osaka Kaijinkan, the Kyoto International Manga Museum, the Tokyo National Science Museum, and so on.

Finally, if you want to go there, you should remember not to rush too much, running a few places a day, or easy to heat stroke.