Exhibitions in Tokyo

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.

Edo-Tokyo Museum

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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