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東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo National Museum

台東区城東

Japan's oldest museum and holder of the most National Treasures; its buildings alone span Meiji to the present.

東京都 · Art & museums

Gallery of Horyuji Treasures

台東区城東

Forty-eight seventh-century gilt bronzes ranged in darkness, inside Yoshio Taniguchi's glass-and-water pavilion.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Museum of Western Art

台東区城東

Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

台東区城東

Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.

東京都 · Art & museums

University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts

台東区城東

The collection of Japan's foremost art school, whose graduation works form a lineage of modern Japanese art.

東京都 · Art & museums

Asakura Museum of Sculpture

台東区城東

A sculptor's own house and studio, joining a concrete workshop to a sukiya residence around a stone-and-water court.

東京都 · Art & museums

Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall

台東区城東

The house where Taikan lived and painted, its studio arranged to look out over the garden.

東京都 · Art & museums

Former Iwasaki Residence

台東区城東

Josiah Conder set a Jacobean mansion beside a Japanese wing, with a Swiss-style billiard house linked by tunnel.

東京都 · Art & museums

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

千代田区都心

Japan's first national art museum, holding more Important Cultural Properties of modern Japanese art than anywhere else.

東京都 · Art & museums

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

千代田区都心

Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.

東京都 · Art & museums

Museum of the Imperial Collections

千代田区都心

The imperial collection, including Jakuchu's thirty bird-and-flower scrolls - the outer limit of precision in Japanese painting.

東京都 · Art & museums

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

千代田区都心

A faithful reconstruction of Conder's 1894 office block, showing late 19th-century European art.

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.