Exhibitions in Tokyo

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.

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

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

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum · Free

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

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.

Japan Folk Crafts Museum

The museum's annual juried competition and sale of new handicrafts by contemporary makers, spanning ceramics, textiles, woodwork, lacquer, glass, metal, bamboo, straw and paper.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT · Free

Gallery 3 show exploring body and clothing through a JAXA satellite image of Antarctica, which inspired A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE's jacquard-woven textiles for extreme environments including space.

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Commemorative exhibition marking the 50th edition of Japan's prestigious Kimura Ihei Photography Award; full details to be announced by the museum closer to opening.

Nezu Museum

Special exhibition of lavish Bugaku court-dance costumes from temples and shrines including Amano-sha and Rinnoji, some shown for the first time in decades.

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.

teamLab Borderless

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

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.

Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

Two-term exhibition tracing ukiyo-e depictions of nighttime scenes, centred on Katsushika Ōi's famous "Night Scene in the Yoshiwara."

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).

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.

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.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Group show of contemporary Japanese artists exploring the ecosystems that adapt to city life, from roadside weeds to organisms coexisting with concrete.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Over 60 dresses, printed textiles and production materials from the Finnish design house Marimekko, with a video on its Helsinki print factory and work by designer Akira Minagawa.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.