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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.

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.