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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.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

八王子市多摩

A private collection running unbroken from the Renaissance to the 20th century - rare in Japan.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tama Art University Museum

多摩市多摩

An art university's museum out in the town, linking its research to the public.

東京都 · Art & museums

Kichijoji Art Museum

武蔵野市多摩

A small museum on the seventh floor of a shopping building, with a room for Yozo Hamaguchi's colour mezzotints.

東京都 · Art & museums

PLAY! MUSEUM

立川市多摩

A venue narrowed to pictures and words, showing picture-book and manga originals with museum discipline.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sawanoi Comb and Hairpin Museum

青梅市多摩

Four thousand combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the technique poured into them.

東京都 · Art & museums

Kihachijo Silk

八丈町島しょ

Silk dyed yellow, brown and black using only the island's own plants, from dye pot to loom.

東京都 · Art & museums

Murayama Oshima Tsumugi

武蔵村山市多摩

Kasuri patterns dyed by clamping threads between carved boards - an Amami technique reworked near Tokyo.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Komon Stencil Dyeing

新宿区都心

Stencil patterns so fine the cloth reads as plain from a distance; still dyed along the Kanda river.

東京都 · Art & museums

Tokyo Silverware

台東区城東

A single silver sheet raised into a vessel by hammer, a line of Edo metalwork still worked in backstreet studios.

東京都 · Art & museums

Edo Woodblock Printing

台東区城東

Designer, carver and printer each do their part; the colours are still layered block by block as they were.

東京都 · Art & museums

Sensoji

台東区城東

Tokyo's oldest temple; dragons and celestial maidens by two major Nihonga painters cover the main hall's ceiling.

東京都 · Art & museums

Rikugien

文京区都心

A garden that recreates places from classical poetry, each view carrying the name of its poem.