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東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Station Gallery

千代田区都心

Inside Tokyo Station, its galleries walled with the original 1914 brickwork uncovered during restoration.

東京都 · Art & museums

Idemitsu Museum of Arts

千代田区都心

Overlooking the palace moat, with a room of potsherds gathered from kiln sites worldwide - beauty taught through fragments.

東京都 · Art & museums

Artizon Museum

中央区都心

Grown from the Bridgestone founder's collection, hanging Impressionism beside modern Japanese oil painting.

東京都 · Art & museums

Mitsui Memorial Museum

中央区都心

Three centuries of Mitsui family collecting; one of only two Japanese-made tea bowls designated National Treasure is here.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Film Archive of Japan

中央区都心

Japan's only national film institution, restoring near-lost prints to projectable condition.

東京都 · Art & museums

Kabukiza Theatre

中央区都心

Kengo Kuma kept the 1924 theatre face and set a 29-storey tower behind it - tradition and skyscraper in one frame.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Art Center, Tokyo

港区都心

A museum with no collection of its own: 14,000 square metres of galleries lent out - a container, by design.

東京都 · Art & museums

Mori Art Museum

港区都心

A museum on the 53rd floor, and among the first in Japan to treat contemporary Asian art systematically.

東京都 · Art & museums

Suntory Museum of Art

港区都心

Its stated theme is beauty in daily life - lacquer, glass and textiles shown as art because they were made to be used.

東京都 · Art & museums

Nezu Museum

港区都心

Korin's irises are shown each year exactly when the real irises bloom, in a garden hidden behind Omotesando.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

港区都心

An imperial prince who saw Art Deco in Paris brought French decorators home; Lalique's glass doors are still in place.

東京都 · Art & museums

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

港区都心

Conceived by Issey Miyake; Tadao Ando's roof is a single folded steel plate dropping almost to the ground.

東京都 · Art & museums

Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum

港区都心

Taro Okamoto's studio of nearly fifty years, left with paints and brushes as they were, its garden crowded with his sculpture.

東京都 · Art & museums

Okura Museum of Art

港区都心

Japan's first private art museum, in a Chinese-styled building by Chuta Ito, holding a Heian National Treasure Buddha.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum Tokyo

港区都心

The Sumitomo family's Chinese bronzes are among the finest such holdings outside China.

東京都 · Art & museums

Musee Tomo

港区都心

A private museum of postwar Japanese ceramics, its spiral glass staircase designed as part of the display.

東京都 · Art & museums

Matsuoka Museum of Art

港区都心

One businessman's collection spanning Egypt, Gandhara, Chinese ceramics and the Impressionists.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

目黒区城南

Japan's largest public museum for photography and moving image, from 1860s albumen prints to video art.

東京都 · Art & museums

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

目黒区城南

Soetsu Yanagi built it to show anonymous craftsmen's work as art; he designed the building and even the display stands.

東京都 · Art & museums

Meguro Museum of Art

目黒区城南

Known for exhibitions about materials and technique - art seen from the side of making.

東京都 · Art & museums

Gotoh Museum

世田谷区城南

Holds the major surviving sections of the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls, shown just once a year.

東京都 · Art & museums

Setagaya Art Museum

世田谷区城南

Low pavilions in a park wood, with a deliberate policy of collecting self-taught artists.

東京都 · Art & museums

Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum

世田谷区城南

For one of Japan's first professional women manga artists, showing her originals beside the art she collected.

東京都 · Art & museums

Shoto Museum of Art

渋谷区都心

Seiichi Shirai's masterwork: almost windowless, lit through an oval void at its centre.