Exhibitions in Tokyo

Tokyo National Museum

A 40th-anniversary showcase in the Hyokeikan tracing the FINAL FANTASY series through art and music, staged alongside the museum's historical Japanese collection.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Traditional Lithuanian handicrafts displayed across the museum's main building and annex.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Exhibition tracing how ukiyo-e artists depicted Edo's licensed pleasure quarters over the centuries.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

An exhibition treating the gallery as "one large clock," scattering time-related devices and design objects to examine how time structures daily life. Directed by graphic designer Tomohiro Okazaki.

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.

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Special exhibition of 500 works and materials by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934), covering his "Yumeji style" images of women, paintings, prints and graphic design.

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.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

Free 100th-anniversary thematic show pairing sculpture, photography, text and painting by five artists exploring dialogue with the world.

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.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

Free 100th-anniversary archives exhibition retracing the museum's century through documents, photographs and the people behind it.

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.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

A survey spotlighting overlooked ukiyo-e artists working in the shadow of the medium's most famous names.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

First major retrospective in Japan in 50 years of Italian landscape painter Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882), who taught early Japanese Western-style painters in Tokyo.

Artizon Museum

The seventh Jam Session pairing sees contemporary artist Fujii Hikaru respond to 22 works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, inverting Plato's cave allegory to question the structure of truth.

Artizon Museum

Over 100 paintings from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection show how Japanese artists studying in Europe since the Meiji era, including Kuroda Seiki and Fujita Tsuguharu, engaged with Western art traditions.

Tokyo Station Gallery

Retrospective of about 130 works by the Norwegian painter Nikolai Astrup, including oil paintings and woodblock prints depicting seasonal landscapes near Jolster Lake, Norway.

Yayoi Kusama Museum

Kusama's work seen through the theme of light, from 1950s drawings to recent mirror rooms and metallic sculptures where light becomes the work itself.

Suntory Museum of Art

Lavishly decorated sutras, Buddhist statues and paintings inspired by the Lotus Sutra, tracing how devotion to the text shaped Japanese art from antiquity to today.

The National Art Center, Tokyo

A retrospective on three pioneering shojo-manga artists, tracing their careers from the late 1960s to today through original drawings and archival material.

National Museum of Western Art

A special exhibition placing J.M.W. Turner's work in dialogue with contemporary art, exploring the sublime in landscape and light.

National Museum of Nature and Science

A commemorative exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo, tracing his life's work and humanity's ongoing fight against infectious disease.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

Around 110 works from the Musée d'Orsay spanning painting, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, including Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir.

Mori Art Museum

Japan's first major Mariko Mori retrospective since 2002, spanning three decades from her 1990s Cyborg series to recent installations shaped by Buddhist philosophy and science.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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