What's on in Tokyo

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Retrospective marking 50 years since Torii Kotondo's death: roughly 70 works spanning his kabuki theatre paintings, acclaimed Taishō-era bijin-ga prints, and rare hand-painted screens.

teamLab Borderless

A seasonal work from teamLab's Spirits of the Flowers series in which a single flower lives through an entire year's cycle in real time, shown each September.

teamLab Borderless

A seasonal light installation evoking shifting terrain and landscape, on display at teamLab Borderless from September through November.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum · Free

About 140 works by Daido Moriyama paired with digital reinterpretations by Nara Women's University engineering students, exploring AI and technology's extension of his photographic legacy.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Roughly 200 modern Taiwanese artworks, archival material and contemporaneous Japanese pieces, exploring shared modernity across art, film, literature and music.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Over 50 Louvre masterpieces trace 15th-16th century Renaissance art, including the Japan debut of Leonardo da Vinci's "Portrait of a Woman" (La Belle Ferronnière).

Tokyo National Museum

A tour of the Asian Gallery (Toyokan) exploring artworks through the lens of color, pigment science, and dyeing techniques across Asia.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Renewal-commemorative special exhibition on brothers Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Hidenaga's role unifying Japan, with artifacts tied to Nobunaga, Ieyasu and Sen no Rikyu.

Sumida Hokusai Museum

10th-anniversary special exhibition featuring a seven-metre Sumida River scroll back in Japan after a century, plus rare and newly acquired Hokusai works.

Suntory Museum of Art

First major Tokyo showing in ~30 years of the Itsuo Art Museum's collection, from classical calligraphy fragments and tea utensils to paintings by Yosa Buson and Matsumura Go Shun.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT · Free

Gallery 3 show marking Parmigiani Fleurier's 30th anniversary, displaying restored 19th-century mechanical masterpieces (watches, automata, singing birds) from the Sandoz Family Foundation Collection.

Tokyo Station Gallery

Traces the classic Chinese novel Suikoden from Song-dynasty origins through its Edo-period popularity in Japan, with Ming and Qing works, Kuniyoshi's ukiyo-e, manga, and drama costumes.

SOMPO Museum of Art

Some 90 works by the French Fauvist, tracing his career and celebrated waterside scenes and Pont-Neuf series, on loan from major French museums.

Tokyo National Museum

Special exhibition marking the gift of the Uchiyama Susumu collection, showing complete sets of Hiroshige's Tokaido, Kiso Road, and Edo landscape print series in rotation.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

MOMAT Collection Focus show on Japanese artists who lived in Paris from the pre-war era through the postwar period, including Fujita Tsuguharu and Okamoto Taro.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Five contemporary artists using AI, CG and stop-motion reassemble existing memories, materials and technologies into new imagery, questioning how we perceive information today.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Six photographers and video artists from China and Japan in dialogue, exploring resonances born from the intersection of different cultures, times and personal experiences.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Fourteen photographers explore how meals connect us to memory, other people and social issues, drawn from the museum's own collection.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Retrospective of pioneering experimental filmmaker and video artist Idemitsu Mako (b. 1940), examining women's lived experience, family and media through the museum's holdings of her work.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

British designer Paul Smith art-directs a colourful, free-spirited hang of roughly 80 Picasso works from the Musée National Picasso-Paris.

Mori Art Museum

Rotating collection showcase featuring Indonesian-Dutch artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno, whose mixed-media work examines colonialism and historical memory, including Dismantling Nostalgia (2024).

National Museum of Western Art

Marking 100 years since Monet's death, all 19 of the museum's Monet works go on view, including rarely shown drawings and a new acquisition.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Emerging-artist series entry showing Higashiyama Shiori's watercolour and coloured-pencil paintings on Japanese paper, in the 4th-floor corridor.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Architect Jun Aoki selects paintings by Nomata Minoru from the museum's Terada Collection, shown alongside the Almost Sky exhibition.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

A two-person show pairing architect Jun Aoki with artist Richard Tuttle, filling the gallery's five spaces with structures and light that blur architecture and art.

Mori Art Museum

Japan premiere of two Josh Kline video works using everyday acts of combustion — gasoline and cigarettes — to trace climate change back to industrialization and empire.

National Museum of Western Art

Around 130 prints trace Rembrandt's innovations in etching and their influence on European printmakers through to Matisse and Picasso.

Mori Art Museum

Works by three artists of Korean heritage living abroad — Quac Insik, Song Hyun-Sook and Alexander Ugay — exploring migration, identity and personal versus national memory.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

Traces how late-19th-century Parisian cafés like the Chat Noir fostered modern art, with roughly 130 works by Manet, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Casas and Picasso.

Mori Art Museum

Hyperrealistic figurative sculptures by Australian artist Ron Mueck, exploring vulnerability and scale, curated with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain; six works make their Japan debut.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Ukiyo-e beauty portraits from the late 18th-19th centuries tracing how successive print masters reinterpreted the genre.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

First joint show pairing Idemitsu Museum paintings with Edo-Tokyo Museum prints on kabuki theater and the pleasure districts.

Artizon Museum

Over 140 works trace poet and art critic Takiguchi Shuzo's move from writing to visual art, pairing his experimental drawings with pieces by Klee, Duchamp and Miro.

Artizon Museum

Japan's first major retrospective of Italian design master Ettore Sottsass, with over 100 works from the 1950s to his final years, in the museum's first-ever design exhibition.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

100th-anniversary show tracing the museum's century through Ueno Park, painter Egami Shigeo's Kyushu coal towns, and an immigrant family's story in Buenos Aires.

Nezu Museum

Museum-collection exhibition drawing on the Nezu's 2,300 ceramics, with Chinese, Japanese and Korean wares shown side by side across three galleries.

National Museum of Western Art

About 50 prints trace mythological and allegorical imagery and courtly celebration culture in Italy from the Renaissance to the Baroque.

National Museum of Nature and Science

A special exhibition on animal survival strategies and adaptive evolution, made with the mimuseum's own specimens and footage from NHK's nature series Darwin ga Kita!

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

100th-anniversary loan show of Edo-period ukiyo-e paintings and prints by Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai and Hiroshige from the British Museum's Japanese collection.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

Marking the museum's 90th anniversary, around 50 Ryukyu bingata and woven textiles from the collection, many linked to the Sho royal family of Okinawa.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

Themed display of edo-kiriko and satsuma-kiriko cut glass vessels made for samurai and wealthy townspeople, blending Japanese and Western decorative styles.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

First Tokyo solo show in 35 years for sculptor Tada Minami (1924-2014), spanning sculpture, chandeliers and architectural "light sculptures" across her 70-year career.

National Museum of Western Art

Marking Japan's Shōwa centennial, this display traces conservation and restoration work at the NMWA from its 1959 founding through 1989.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

Contemporary architects and designers reinterpret Kamo no Chōmei's 13th-century "Hōjōki" and its 9m² hermitage, rethinking what it means to dwell. Directed by architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

Recreation of illustrator Yuriko Yamawaki's studio, exploring her picture-book collaborations with Rieko Nakagawa and her influence on Hayao Miyazaki.