Top 50 Museums in Japan
This curated ranking covers the 50 largest museums in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 338 museums tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Museum, Art museum and Museum of Modern Art lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 32,685,329 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 1,204,639, and the largest, Museum, reaches around 17,261,045 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each museum, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.
Ranking
| Rank | Name | Audience size | Country share | Subtype | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Museum |
17,261,045 | 9.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 2 |  Art museum |
10,994,352 | 6.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 3 |  Museum of Modern Art |
4,429,932 | 11.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 4 |  Mori Art Museum |
3,070,288 | 87.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 5 |  Biltmore Estate |
2,832,725 | 59.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 6 |  Musee Platinum |
2,686,767 | 89.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 7 |  Saatchi Gallery |
1,827,211 | 7.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 8 |  Metropolitan Museum of Art |
1,567,519 | 6.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 9 |  Tate Modern |
1,251,765 | 7.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 10 |  Gagosian Gallery |
917,284 | 9.3% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 11 |  British Museum |
802,073 | 3.3% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 12 |  Natural History Museum, London |
781,442 | 18.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 13 |  Frieze Art Fair |
714,820 | 8.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 14 |  Science Museum, London |
697,986 | 13.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 15 |  São Paulo Museum of Art |
635,325 | 10.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 16 |  Victoria and Albert Museum |
564,111 | 4.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 17 |  Tate |
520,105 | 7.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 18 |  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
445,317 | 6.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 19 |  Van Gogh Museum |
418,177 | 6.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 20 |  The Rooms |
413,295 | 14.2% | Museum | Travel & Leisure |
| 21 |  Whitney Museum of American Art |
395,101 | 7.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 22 |  Pérez Art Museum Miami |
391,247 | 16.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 23 |  Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
389,448 | 7.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 24 |  Saatchi Art |
338,521 | 8.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 25 |  National Gallery |
330,667 | 4.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 26 |  National Gallery of Art |
302,194 | 6.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 27 |  National Museum of the Philippines |
297,842 | 25.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 28 |  National Museum of Western Art |
296,861 | 52.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 29 |  Musée d'Orsay |
290,753 | 11.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 30 |  Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
280,975 | 36.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 31 |  Centre Georges Pompidou |
273,160 | 8.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 32 |  Science museum |
246,062 | 8.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 33 |  Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) |
237,454 | 11.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 34 |  Children's museum |
223,999 | 3.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 35 |  American Museum of Natural History |
222,874 | 6.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 36 |  Royal Academy of Arts |
221,788 | 3.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 37 |  Museo del Prado |
220,722 | 6.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 38 |  Brooklyn Museum |
219,161 | 2.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 39 |  Chinese surname |
211,606 | 3.4% | Museum | Politics & Society |
| 40 |  TsUM (Moscow) |
209,675 | 3.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 41 |  Ghibli Museum |
192,305 | 28.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 42 |  National Palace Museum |
190,795 | 8.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 43 |  White Cube |
187,973 | 9.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 44 |  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
187,105 | 9.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 45 |  San Diego Natural History Museum |
184,335 | 15.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 46 |  Tate Britain |
180,366 | 4.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 47 |  museo reina sofía |
174,335 | 15.7% | Museum | Travel & Leisure |
| 48 |  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |
169,859 | 6.9% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 49 |  Kunsthistorisches Museum |
167,193 | 10.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 50 |  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
166,062 | 20.3% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
Frequently asked questions
How is this Top 50 list compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each museum by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest museum in Japan?
Museum currently leads with an estimated audience of 17,261,045 people in Japan.
Methodology
Audience sizes are estimated from anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan. Lists below 5 entries are not published. See methodology for full details.