Exhibitions in Tokyo

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

90th-anniversary show on how museum founder Yanagi Soetsu collected the folk crafts that make up the Mingeikan.

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.

SOMPO Museum of Art

About 100 paintings by Togo Seiji, from early avant-garde works to late large oils, with around 100 pieces of his commercial design for the museum's 50th year.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Sugawara Kaho's paintings, drawings, blueprints and field journals recording wild birds and their plumage, in the 4th-floor corridor.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Postwar Japanese artists and how they treated material, from prewar abstraction pioneers to Gutai and Mono-ha, drawn from the gallery's Terada Collection.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

About 250 works by Finnish designer Kaj Franck (1911-1989), in glass, porcelain and fabric, with sketches and film, drawn mainly from the Design Museum Helsinki collection.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

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

Tokyo National Museum

Paintings and crafts depicting scenes from The Tale of Genji, with manuscripts, commentaries and its spread into performing arts and popular culture, organised with Kyoto National Museum.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

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

Nezu Museum

Museum collection exhibition presenting an overview of the Nezu's Buddhist sculpture holdings, among the finest of any private art museum in Japan.

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

About 50 prints and drawings, plus three paintings, by 19 artists show how nineteenth-century Paris theatre, from Delacroix's Shakespeare to Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, entered art.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumFree

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

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 Metropolitan Art MuseumFree

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

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.

Nezu Museum

Museum collection exhibition on East Asian lacquer techniques built on carving: chōshitsu, Kamakurabori, sōkin, tenshitsu and kinma.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Photographer Okada Atsushi's exhibition on Yururi Island, spanning 1950 to 2026, in the museum's basement-floor galleries.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Nature and Science

The museum's first special exhibition on sex as a theme, covering the diversity of sex in animals and plants through form, behaviour, sex determination and parenting.

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.

Sumida Hokusai Museum

10th-anniversary show of Hokusai's Sumida views and the works born of his exchanges with Ota Nanpo and other writers, plus Hokusai prints that inspired later authors such as Masaoka Shiki.

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.

Mori Art Museum

Showcase for Katayama Mari, first Grand Prize winner of the Mori Art Award, whose analogue photography, embroidery and needlework extend the boundaries of her own body.

Mori Art Museum

New ceramic sculptures by Santa Fe-based Brie Ruais, made after a residency at Shigaraki and research into Japanese clay and ceramic history, shaped through full-body movement.

Mori Art Museum

Three films by Thai artist Jakrawal Nilthamrong, centred on Rhizome (2022), where a man drifts on a raft above a flooded world. Screened 18:00-22:00, about 39 minutes in total.

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.

Ghibli Museum, Mitaka

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