Close to Ueno Park is Tokyo National Museum - the oldest and largest in the country. It was created in 1872, when the Meiji Emperor "opened" Japan to the western world and felt the necessity of the first public museum.

Today on the territory of 100 thousand square meters. meters are five buildings in the museum are 120 thousand units. It all started with an exhibition in one of the buildings of the temple Yushima-Sadie six hundred exhibits. The exhibition was a patchwork of objects of cultural heritage, personal belongings of members of the Royal Family, stuffed animals and birds, utensils, specimens of flora, minerals and others. However, it was a huge success, and its follow-up has been a museum under the Ministry of Culture - the prototype of modern agency.

Today, among the exhibits of the Tokyo National Museum, you can see samples of fine and applied arts, calligraphy, weapons and armor, samurai swords, clothing and textiles, Japanese household items, models of architectural monuments and more.

The main building of the museum - Honkan - called the heart of the museum. There is a Japanese art gallery. This building was built in the 30s of the twentieth century and mixed in his guise of national and European architectural features of the Art Deco style. On the first floor of the gallery presents masterpieces from different fields of art, the second exhibits are placed in chronological order, starting with the ancient Buddhist sculptures from wood. Here you can see the scrolls multimeter with a complex pattern and elegant calligraphy, painting the screen with the story, the actors kabuki costumes, samurai armor and more.

The case is Heyseykan dobuddistskoe Japanese art and archeological rarities that have been established for several centuries before the Christian era.

Asian Gallery, or Toyokan, introduces the works of Chinese art, which served as models for the Japanese masters, and also with the art of other countries of the East.

The ceremonial building of the museum is an architectural monument of western style Meiji era, now serves as an educational center, there are workshops and is working a number of scientific societies.

Homotsukan - housing the treasures of the temple Horyuji in Nara city. Most of the exhibits are in Nara itself, but also in the National Museum is something to see - for example, on the size of the huge metal jewelry with an engraving that was used for ceremonial purposes.