ODAIBA ISLAND, Miraikan Future Museum

The Miraikan, or Future Museum, is a spectacularly thrilling museum created by Japan’s Science and Technology Agency.

The official name of the Miraikan is the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Inaugurated on July 9th 2001, it is housed in a truly spectacular, futuristic glass and metal building.

The aim of the museum is to allow people to experience new scientific discoveries for themselves, with miniature laboratories, lessons and experiments conducted by scientists right before your eyes.

In addition to numerous temporary exhibitions, the museum is organized into three major permanent exhibitions.

The first, entitled Explore the Frontiers, allows you to find out more about space, the solar system, Earth and life on our planet.

Have you ever wondered how it’s possible to observe a neutrino, a tiny subatomic particle? In this section, you’ll find a working replica of an actual laboratory for measuring neutrinos, and you can experience this for yourself. Or you might like to enter a reproduction of the International Space Station, or find out how a stem cell works....