The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Japan (Miraikan)

There are so many things to see, to interact and to deeply think about the relationship between human and the universe. We did not expect getting emotional when listening to a presentation about history of planet Earth, or experience life from the perspective of an aged person. I recommend spending a whole day here because you would not want to rush in such a place like this.

Great place to take your family for some edutainment. I’ve been here at least once a year for the last 3-4 years, and they keep updating and upgrading their exhibits. The dome theater is great, too. Try to get the ticket in advance. It’s worth it. The restaurant on the 7th floor, however, is not. It has completely tanked in the last year or so. No bueno. Awful food awfully expensive. Other than that, the place is great.

My boys loved it. Definitely buy the movie tickets ahead of time and pick the seats above the projector. The restaurant view was breathtaking.

The Tokyo Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) is an inspiring and engaging place to visit for both adults and children. The exhibits are interactive, well designed, and easy to understand, making complex topics like robotics, space, AI, and the future of technology very accessible. Highlights include the humanoid robots and the impressive globe display, which really spark curiosity and imagination. The museum is spacious, modern, and well organised, allowing visitors to explore at a comfortable pace. A must-visit in Odaiba for anyone interested in science, innovation, and how technology shapes our future.

Great spot in Tokyo for families. The museum is full of hands-on exhibits where kids can actually touch and try things, which makes it way more engaging than just looking at displays. My children loved the robots and the giant earth globe that changes in real time — they were fascinated. It’s educational but also fun, so adults enjoy it too. Easy to get to in Odaiba, and a good option if you want something indoors away from the heat or rain. Definitely recommend if you’re visiting Tokyo with kids.

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, known as Miraikan, is a must-visit destination for anyone fascinated by technology, science, and the future. Located in Odaiba, Tokyo, the museum offers an engaging blend of interactive exhibits, real scientific research, and thought-provoking displays that appeal to both adults and children. One of the highlights is ASIMO, Honda’s humanoid robot, which demonstrates advanced robotics and human-like motion with impressive precision. The Geo-Cosmos—a massive floating globe displaying real-time images of Earth—is absolutely mesmerizing and serves as the centerpiece of the museum. There are also fascinating sections dedicated to AI, space exploration, biotechnology, and climate science, each designed to make complex topics approachable and fun.

The museum offers a lot of exhibitions on different topics. Most of the material in Japanese and English. Good activities for different age groups. My 13 years old son had a good time. The only downside that it took us about 2hr to finish it with 30min to get there. One exhibition was closed for us because we got a basic ticket.

This place is like a giant science park where kids of all ages can experience the wonders of science. On the 3rd floor, you can interact with robots, consider what is real and what is not, and explore the science of humans aging. The fourth floor has a permanent section on humans in space, with a model of the Japanese module for the International Space Station there. The digital globe hanging from the top of the museum ceiling is a great visual for learning.

This museum was extremely interesting, as well as English speaker friendly. There was a lot to learn and look at, and there are science classes for children with teachers that are fluent in many languages. The exhibits are interactive and there are games, robots and more to learn from. Some of the exhibits had longer waits which took away from some of the novelty. If you're even remotely interested in science, engineering, or technology check this place out.

Large museum. Good for kids. Great indoor activity on a rainy day. Beautiful earth exhibit and some accompanying ones one micro biology, climate change, etc. the robotics exhibit looked popular and was interesting. I think they can do more with the space. Better for kids or adults with curious minds.

Price of admission is reasonable, but I was really disappointed overall. When I think National museum of science in Japan, that this place should just be beyond anything, but the whole experience was just kind of meh. The androids were kind of cool and Asimo is pretty entertaining, but Asimo is 18 years old, where is Asimo 2.0? Nearly two decades since Asimo's creation, I expected more from leaders in technology. The best part of the trip was the Uni-Cub. You can go for a quick spin around their blocked off area for 10 minutes or for 200 yen more you go on a 30 minute tour around the building. I definitely recommend springing for the tour as you get a lot more saddle time.

I think if you are a child you would enjoy this museum. It has many interactive things for kids to encounter. As for me, it was a bore. I expected more scientific things to look at. But it wasn't. It has multiple floor that have children interactive features. Great for kids...not for adults. Nice building, but if you are here with no children, I would recommend to skip.

So much fun! They have robots science and a giant globe of monitors. What else do you need!? Unicubs?!? Yeah they have that too and you can ride them. Lots of fun. Especially if you have younger guests to entertain. There's bikes to rent and other stuff in the surrounding area. Take the monorail. Probably a good 3-4 hours of entertainment. I've been here twice and will probably go back again.

Science museums are my best favorite places. Miraikan is at the top rank of this category because it is designed by the coolest engineers of Japan (yes I know them). The location is a little bit far from the nearest station (Fune no Kagaku kan of Yurikamome line), but it is worth visiting. 日本最高の科学博物館．最寄り駅はゆりかもめ「船の科学館」．

Miraikan is a really interesting place to visit! I came here with a group of headteachers (I'd already shown them lots of traditional sites in Kyoto...so it was an amazing contrast to show them Japan's high-tech side.) For me the highlights were: - Asimo!! We got to see him in action, running around, singing (while he showed all the words in sign language) and explaining how he works. The demonstration was all in Japanese, but there are English subtitles on the wall if you can't understand robot-Japanese. - The freaky otonaroid... you can speak to her. I thought she was a robot, until I realised that she is controlled by a lady in a both next to the display. They have demonstrations for her in English and in Japanese. - I loooved looking inside the copy of the international space station, and learning about Japan's contribution to their food. It's cool to know that astronauts get to eat ramen and kewpie mayo in space. - Of course, it's always nice to watch the weather systems move over the giant globe. If you can speak Japanese DO chat to the staff that are dotted around each exhibit. They are really knowledgeable and can tell you extra cool titbits of information.

Probably one of the coolest science museums I have ever been to. There are multiple levels so check them out thoroughly! Being the nerd I am, and wanting a bit of nostalgia, I opted for the Pokemon Lab as well! It was a couple hundred yen more for a bit more fun. I started off with that. Basically, you pick a pokeball, it has a mystery pokemon in it, and with the lab, you try to figure out what pokemon it is. Pretty much like a mini game. Also gives a bit of a history of all the pokemon after the mini game portion. It is a fairly quick area. After that, I tackled the actual science portion. Wow, so many different things to try out and read up about and watch. Reminded me of a bigger and better Exploratorium that is located in San Francisco. Some good exhibits were the android, space machines up top, and I personally was intrigued about the IPS cell presentation (brain stem recovery). Totally should check this place out, for the price (I think with Pokemon it was 1,600 yen) it was well worth it as I spent about 3-4 hours in the museum learning about new innovations.

This is the coolest science museum I've ever visited! This museum is interesting for children, but is also very interesting for grown-ups. There are a few robots on display and I especially liked the demonstration of Asimo. I was so surprised by its natural looking movements. The demo of the other humanoid, realistic robot is not as often as Asimo's and unfortunately I missed out on the demo of the realistic robot. Other highlights of the science museum are the ISS space station replica and the Dome Theater. It's also possible to ride your way through the museum on a personal mobility device, called the UNI-CUB.

The Science Museum blew my mind. they have all sorts of androids and robotics exhibits that you can even interact with. There is even a stuffed seal that you could pet. I bought tickets to the special exhibition so I waited in line to go into the Aoyama floating flower exhibit. it was totally worth it. Strains of various flowers moved up and down like waves and walked at their sense throughout the whole room. Granted you're only in there for about 5 minutes. They also had another exhibit about Japanese art but it also combined it with technology. Even the little kids got to draw different sea creatures and see it come alive on a huge screen. I also learned what the Japanese astronauts eat and iPS cells which I had no idea existed in America until earlier this year. the Japanese are way ahead of the game in terms of technology. I wish I had a museum like that where I live in Seattle

This is a science museum where they show off a lot of the cutting edge technology that Japan has developed. I think the main museum would be best appreciated by children. There was a lot of kids there and most of the exhibits seemed to be designed for kids. There is a cafe inside, though, which was a good place to relax after walking around Odaiba for a while. The most interesting place was the movie that they show inside the theater. You can pay a little extra go view it, and if you're already inside the museum then it's a worthy side trip. The movie I saw was of the stars and an explanation of what we were seeing through a child's point of view. It's on the ceiling of the theater so be sure to lean your chair back so you can enjoy it more fully. One of the kids near me helped me out by showing me how to do it since I wasn't clever enough to realize that I could on my own.

for kids only, for adults not recommended (as long als your name is not Donald Trump) Nice architecture!

I've been to Miraikan twice, the second time being April 17, 2017. There are some interesting things at Miraikan that are pretty straightforward, like the look inside the International Space Station, or Asimo. Obviously many people are interested in the robotic stuff, and that's interesting enough. But I feel that many of the exhibits are struggling to convey rather complicated ideas, and fall back on simply trying to explain things in words. I was surprised at the amount of writing that is presented in the museum exhibits. At times I felt as if someone had handed me a textbook. Or I would go to a screen (such as in "Songs of Anagura") and only get a professor talking to me, as if I were in a classroom. This is exactly the opposite of what a science museum should be! The whole point is to SHOW us things in a way that we can't get from a textbook or a lecture. My reaction after leaving many of the exhibits was often either "that wasn't quite as interesting as I expected" or "I didn't quite understand that." I think the museum's idea of giving us things to think about is not a bad one, but there really needs to be some amazing information communicated to us as well. I think "Backward from the Future" was the exhibit where I most sensed a struggle to communicate the intended message. First of all, we choose which type of future we would like to aim for, and we stamp our choice onto the paper provided. But then this paper is never needed again. We're asked to think backward from the future in planning our course, but we're given no idea of HOW to do such planning, and it's not clear what difference it would make if we did. Plotting our course through the future feels very random; we have no criteria or tools for doing so. I suspect that most kids launch their icon toward the future and then walk away. I did follow mine over the hill in the exhibit and saw that, after it crashed and burned, it said there was a letter for me, but I didn't know where to see this letter. My daughter pointed out that it was on the screens off to the side. (It's a letter "from" someone in the future, explaining why my choice for how to proceed through the future, "a world where everyone has enough to eat", only lasted 30 years.) More reading to do, and reading that's easily forgotten as we move on to the next exhibit. The message about a sustainable future is a worthwhile one, but I felt that it wasn't communicated clearly. Also, it was rather unsettling that none of the potential futures seemed to be all that sustainable! (This exhibit might have been better if the letter from the future were somehow PRINTED onto the paper that we stamp at the beginning. Then there would be no mystery about where the letter was, and more people could read and remember their letters, since they could take them home.) This brings me to another point: most museum-goers are simply going to scan all the reading briefly, because we don't want to stand there a long time and read. So we don't remember what we read and so a lot of effort is made to communicate things that we won't clearly remember. The museum needs more teaching that is VISUAL, rather than written or spoken. There is some (although sometimes the visual teaching doesn't communicate clearly -- I struggled to understand what all the rolling balls in the science workshop represented -- "energy"?), but there needs to be more. I mentioned "Songs of Anagura." This is an exhibit in which you are followed around a room by a projection on the floor, called your "me", which represents your personal data. The room feels a bit like a disco, with "vocaloid" music playing, and projections on the walls of dancing silhouettes. You are tracked as you walk around the room visiting different stations, which talk about issues of personal privacy in the era of the Internet and GPS. After you have walked around the room enough, the exhibit tells you that it will generate a song from your data. But it wasn't clear to me HOW it generated this song, which sounded pretty much like the others that had played before. It's an interesting idea, but again, execution could have been better. Anyway, I would say that Miraikan is good, but not great. I hope they will be able to make some effort toward making the museum more visual and interactive, and less like a classroom.

This museum must be new because 1/2 of the space is empty. They had some interesting displays about androids, natural disasters, etc but I was hoping that it would have a little more. They had a special Disney exhibition but we didn't want to pay extra for that, and since I live in California I've seen practically everything Disney here. We zapped through the museum in an hour+ time. Maybe after a few more years when they fill up the floors with more stuff it would be worth seeing again.

Fun and educational even as an adult! I highly recommend coming here for the Asimo (robot). The exhibits are very educational and quite in depth..I don't how kids could really understand it. Great price at 620 yen for general adult admission. There's 30 minute movie in the dome theatre for extra. There's also a cafe, but you can't bring the food or drinks into the exhibit. Apparently there's a free shuttle from the Tokyo teleport station, otherwise it's maybe a 15 minute walk. I recommend coming here the same time you want to visit the Gundam!

This is a large museum specializing science only. So there are many kids or students. But you shouldn't think of this as a museum for kids. You can't make light of this. You can see the technology of Japan, cutting-edge technology. This will satisfy you in many fields of science. So you may find something you didn't know interesting. This is an entrance for a new scientific field you find interesting. You can find any kind of such field. An exhibition is sometimes held here . And its concept is always very cool. I enjoyed the one about Terminator.

A very large museum filled with science - sort of a cross between the Exploratorium and the Academy of Science in San Francisco. Those who aren't interested in old/new technology and aren't open-minded to various ideas (weird to some, practical to others) should not come here. This place is definitely the type to take your time browsing. The cost of admission for large groups is cheaper than individual pricing. No special pricing that I know of for dome theater, which has to be bought separately (or added on) when purchasing admission tickets.

Created by Japan's Science & Technology Agency, Miraikan (literal translation: Future Museum) resides in the Odaiba district. Highlights of the static displays & demonstrations were twofold: 1) Asimo, the Honda robot & 2) Geo-Cosmos Globe. This globe is awesome: made of 10,362 led panels, 20 feet wide, 10 million pixel model of Earth simulating predictive weather patterns. There are even sofa beds on the ground floor so you can relax while gawking at this spectacle above you. Come early if you can, lines actually form!!

If the ancient Honda Asimo is the star attraction, then your museum might be underwhelming. If the life-like robots remind you of your last trip to Disneyland, then this might not be cutting-edge technology. Beautiful space, but seems best for the nearby suburban families.

Super boring area.. Esp when the stuff English is really fuzzy to understand. Girls at the information desk were very unfriendly.

Embarrassingly bad. It is hard to believe that well-trained scientists thoroughly reviewed the productions and exhibits offered in this modern building, or that audience-savvy video producers did. Here are our experiences. 1) One of a number of stand-alone exhibits intends to demonstrate a phase of photosynthesis. We could discern nothing moving until a staffer called attention to a near-invisible little stream of bubbles making their way to the surface of a small glass vat. It was labeled "Hydrogen released from water." However, in the course of utilizing the sun's energy to make glucose, oxygen, not hydrogen, is released from the water. 2) You can sit at several horizontal computer consoles and operate each of them to view illustrative material such as precipitation throughout the world, the movement of fishes in oceans, and so on. The videos whiz along with little further explanation, and from the ceilings bright lights shine down to flood glare upon the glass, making the images hard to see. 3) The supposed demonstration of advanced robots involves seeing an android-like device walking as if it had a slight humpback, hardly stepping along the way people do. The photo sequences by Edweard Muybridge in the late 1800s would have helped in designing these robots. As far as we could see, the staffers carrying out the demonstration did not put them through any paces to show their faces expressing recognizable human emotions, as was advertised. Robotics has advanced noticeably beyond what is shown here. 4) The Dome Theater within the building showed a three-dimensional movie titled "The nine dimensions of man," supposed to explain fundamental aspects of we human beings. Theatricality trumped clarity again and again, with impressive visual tricks repeatedly intruding upon the explanations, leaving us mystified. 5) An exhibit on the Ninja was also minimal and baffling. Though you can't slake your thirst for knowledge, at least there's a little café where you can slake your physiological thirst.