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東京都 · Art & museums

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

渋谷区都心

Among Japan's largest ukiyo-e museums, hidden behind Harajuku, with a tatami-floored gallery.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yamatane Museum of Art

渋谷区都心

Devoted to modern Nihonga; Gyoshu Hayami's moths circling a flame are shown only a few times a year.

東京都 · Art & museums

Toguri Museum of Art

渋谷区都心

A private porcelain museum that lines up one vessel type by date, so technique can be watched changing.

東京都 · Art & museums

Myth of Tomorrow

渋谷区都心

A 30-metre mural on the atomic bomb, lost in Mexico for decades and now hung in a Shibuya station passage.

東京都 · Art & museums

SOMPO Museum of Art

新宿区都心

Holds one of Van Gogh's seven Sunflowers, moved in 2020 from a skyscraper's upper floors to its own building.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yayoi Kusama Museum

新宿区都心

Founded by Kusama herself; entry is by timed ticket only, so each visitor meets the work almost alone.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

新宿区都心

Known for its contemporary programme, and for a young-artist series it has run for over twenty years.

東京都 · Art & museums

Nakamuraya Salon Museum

新宿区都心

The record of a bakery owner's salon that supported artists, centred on the sculptor Morie Ogiwara.

東京都 · Art & museums

St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo

文京区都心

Kenzo Tange's eight hyperbolic shells form a cross seen from above; inside, light falls only through a thin cruciform slit.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yayoi Museum and Yumeji Museum

文京区都心

Devoted to illustration and popular imagery - printed pictures usually left out of art history, treated as the main line.

東京都 · Art & museums

Toyo Bunko Museum

文京区都心

A million volumes of Asian studies; its centrepiece is a two-storey wall of books, the Morrison Library.

東京都 · Art & museums

Printing Museum

文京区都心

On the history of reproducing text, with a working letterpress studio visitors can use.

東京都 · Art & museums

Itabashi Art Museum

板橋区城北

The first ward-run art museum in Tokyo, with two pillars: Edo Kano painting and international picture-book illustration.

東京都 · Art & museums

Nerima Art Museum

練馬区城北

Renowned for retrieving artists that art history had dropped - unusual ambition for a ward museum.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sumida Hokusai Museum

墨田区城東

In the district where Hokusai spent most of his life; Kazuyo Sejima slit a mirrored aluminium block to let alleys through.

東京都 · Art & museums

Edo-Tokyo Museum

墨田区城東

A vast raised structure by Kiyonori Kikutake, rebuilding Edo's Nihonbashi at full size; closed for major renovation.

東京都 · Art & museums

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

江東区城東

Japan's largest contemporary collection, with ceilings high enough for installations nothing else can take.

東京都 · Art & museums

Fukagawa Edo Museum

江東区城東

A block of 1840s Fukagawa rebuilt at full size, cycling through a day in light and sound.

東京都 · Art & museums

Edo Kiriko Glass

江東区城東

Coloured glass cased over clear, then cut away to leave the pattern - a craft born of Edo townsman culture.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yamamotoyama Villa and Shibamata

葛飾区城東

A Taisho industrialist's house joining a shoin wing to Western rooms, its garden ranked among Japan's best by a US journal.

東京都 · Art & museums

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

小金井市多摩

Buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here - Maekawa's own house, a bathhouse, a street of signboard shops.

東京都 · Art & museums

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

三鷹市多摩

Designed from Miyazaki's own sketches, deliberately without a fixed route, so visitors get lost on purpose.

東京都 · Art & museums

Fuchu Art Museum

府中市多摩

Nationally known for its Edo painting exhibitions, as sharp on unknown painters as on famous eccentrics.

東京都 · Art & museums

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

町田市多摩

A public museum devoted entirely to prints - rare anywhere - with workshops where the techniques are demonstrated.