Tobacco and Salt Museum

The Tobacco and Salt Museum (Japanese:たばこと塩の博物館) is located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.

[2] The museum was originally located in Shibuya but, in 2015, it was relocated to Sumida.

[3] The museum has about 38,000 artifacts that show the history of tobacco and salt both from Japan and overseas.

[2] It holds a 1.4 tonne block of rock salt from Poland along with other blocks of rock salts that have been brought from various parts of world.

There is a replica of a Mayan shrine from South America to show where tobacco was first used.