Museums in Japan

ACT stands for Art, Culture and Technology. This theme park comprises of 8 different museums, including the World Classic Car Museum, World Model Car Museum and Bonnet Bus Museum

Once home to motorcycle hillclimb races, the picturesque Asama hill is a sacred place for local motorsport enthusiasts. For many years the Asama Volcano Museum had a hall devoted to historical racing bikes. In 2020 it was closed. A year later the Memorial Museum was relocated and reopened on the site of the Asama Ranch Shop.

Circuit no Ookkami (Circuit Wolf) Museum was set up by renowned manga artist, Satoshi Ikezawa. Circuit Wolf manga is quite popular in Japan and internationally as well. The Museum features mostly Italian exotics, some Porsche cars and a Toyota 2000GT

Daihatsu opened this collection in 2007 as part of its centenary celebration. Here people can learn while having fun with a focus on hands-on displays under the themes of "people-friendly" and "earth-friendly" automobile manufacturing. The four-story steel structure with a floor area of 2,900m2 is located adjacent to the Daihatsu Head Office in Ikeda city, Osaka Prefecture.

2022: THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED FOR RENOVATION - IT IS EXPECTED TO REOPEN IN APRIL, 2026

Follow the 130-year history of motorsports through a display of forty remarkable racing cars from around the world, and emerge yourself in inspiring episodes from the lives of racing’s most influential people.

This is an “experience-based” museum based on the slogan, “Ride, Watch, Touch, Take Pictures." The exhibits include an old three-wheel car (Batanko) from the 1930s - 1940s, motor-assisted bicycles, Japanese clocks with the temporal hour system of the Edo era, wax dolls, music boxes, three-wheeled charcoal carts, an airplane, a rickshaw, a carriage, Japanese cars, and foreign classic cars by Packard, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Ford, Chevrolet, etc.

Opened in 2022, the F6 Museum displays around 70 motorcycles, including trail bikes from Kawasaki, Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki, and others.

There are also a few cars displayed.

Housed in a former warehouse, which was built in 1923 this museum features both Japanese and foreign cars and motorcycles. There are also dealers on site.

Opened in 2024, this is a new theme park in Chikusei city with 25 different facilities including museums devoted to aviation, cars, motorcycles and fire engines too. 

 exhibit 32 cars, mostly from the 1970s, as well as older rarities including the actual Mercedes Benz used by Yoshida Shigeru, one of Japan’s longest-serving prime ministers who led during the 1950s and `60s.

The Classic Bike Museum is home to more than 30 bikes, the oldest of which is a Ducati from 1944.