Laufende und kommende Ausstellungen in Tokyo

Artizon Museum

2025.3.1 - 2025.9.21

This exhibition showcases masterpieces from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, including French Impressionism and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern Western art, abstract art from the twentieth century to the present day, and modern and contemporary Japanese art.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

*Admission fee is 500 yen during the period from June 10 to June 22.
*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia.

Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum

2025.6.7 - 2025.9.28

A solo exhibition of Fujimoto Yoshimichi (1919-1992), a master of porcelain with overglaze enamels. Characterized by his realistic and three-dimensional expressions using overglaze enamels, this exhibition focuses on his main motif, birds, and explores the relationship between the deepening of his expression and the evolution of his overglaze enamel techniques.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2025.6.17 - 2025.10.13

This second installment of a commemorative exhibition marking 50 years since the museum’s founding features works with animal motifs. The Matsuoka Zoo comes alive with a different theme in each exhibition hall, including ancient Egyptian gods and animals around the world.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2025.6.20 - 2025.9.21

Featuring approximately 40 lithographs from renowned 19th-century French caricature artist Honoré Daumier. Discover caricature paintings with themes that are still relevant today, including international expositions and overtourism.

Free

Artizon Museum

2025.6.24 - 2025.9.21

This exhibition, the first of its kind in Japan, focuses on First Nations women artists and explores today’s Australian contemporary art through the works of seven individual artists and one collective, whose backgrounds span multiple generations and regions.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to The Ishibashi Foundation Collection Highlights.

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

2025.7.1 - 2025.9.28

This exhibition introduces precious drawings from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, from Baroque to Renaissance periods, including the works by Dürer, Rubens, Rembrandt and more.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students

Mori Art Museum

2025.7.2 - 2025.11.9

The first major solo exhibition of Sou Fujimoto, an architect working as the design producer for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. This exhibition offers an overview of the distinctive features of Fujimoto’s architecture through models, design drawings, installations, and more.

Adults￥2,500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mori Art Museum

2025.7.2 - 2025.11.9

A solo exhibition for Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim. Works such as sound installations present the essence of “conveying” meaning.

Adults ￥2,500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

* The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto admission ticket valid for entry.

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2025.7.3 - 2025.9.28

A solo exhibition of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri. Introducing landscapes constructed from diverse visual fragments—featuring scenes from travel destinations, the interior of Ghirri’s home, and artworks—together with Ghirri’s multifaceted exploration of infinite landscapes.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2025.7.3 - 2025.9.21

This exhibition is a joint project from four curators. Focusing on physicality in photos as well as physical expression of subjects and artists themselves, it proposes new ways of interpreting artworks.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2025.7.4 - 2025.11.3

An exhibition encouraging reflection on disaster preparedness through thought-provoking questions, interactive artworks, and data visualizations, along with projects inspired by past disasters.

Adults ￥1,600

Note: Discounts available for students

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2025.7.5 - 2025.9.21

Introducing prints from famous artists, such as Dürer, Picasso and Miró. This exhibition also combines various materials and techniques, as well as introducing contemporary works that go beyond the boundaries of conventional prints.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

2025.7.5 - 2025.9.23

This exhibition introduces antique paintings. It focuses on the people depicted in yamato-e paintings, the Buddhist and Shintō deities depicted in butsu-ga paintings, and dōshaku-ga paintings related to Buddhism and Daoism, and explains the stories behind these captivating works.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Toguri Museum of Art

2025.7.11 - 2025.9.28

An ongoing exhibition focused on the colors of old Imari. This summer, the exhibition focuses on glazes and introduces a rich variety of colorful expressions made possible with glazes, such as whites created from a white surface and clear glaze or blues created with blue glaze.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

2025.7.12 - 2025.9.28

One of Japan’s largest-ever space-themed exhibitions. Displays include the Artemis program’s cutting-edge technology, the actual Soyuz spacecraft that Yusaku Maezawa flew in on his return to Earth, and particles brought back from space by the Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions.

Adults ￥2,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art

2025.7.12 - 2025.9.15

Focuses on pictorial expression in ceramics. Introduces works from about 50 modern artists, including founders of modern ceramics Kenkichi Tomimoto and Bernard Leach, as well as Kanjirō Kawai who promoted the Mingei movement.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students, seniors and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

National Museum of Nature and Science

2025.7.12 - 2025.10.13

Relive the ice age through this exhibition. It introduces mammoths and other animals, homo sapiens, and what Japan was like at the time. Plus, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls are on display here for the first time in Japan.

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students

Musée Hamaguchi Yozo: Yamasa Collection

2025.7.12 - 2025.9.21

Nanga painting, which shaped a major cultural trend from the Edo period to the early Showa era (1603-1945), also influenced Yozo Hamaguchi. This unique exhibition explores how Nanga is interpreted in the modern world, featuring copperplate prints, ink paintings, contemporary art, Nihonga (Japanese-style painting), calligraphy, and poetry.

Adults ￥600

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mori Arts Center Gallery

2025.7.16 - 2025.9.17

This exhibition commemorates 80 years since the Moomin novels were first published and introduces the worldview of their creator, Tove Jansson. Browse approximately 300 works, including original paintings and sketches, and discover the appeal of the Moomin series.

Adults ￥2,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Tokyo National Museum

2025.7.19 - 2025.9.21

Principal wives, additional wives, and ladies-in-waiting of Edo Castle resided in the Ōoku, or inner chambers. This exhibition introduces their little-known history and culture through items close to these women, such as documents, clothing and tools.

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

2025.7.19 - 2025.12.14

This exhibition showcases archaeological artifacts, as well as folklore and art materials, from the Jomon period collected by the former Musashino Folklore Museum, the predecessor of the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum. It also introduces the museum’s history of preserving cultural heritage.

Adults ￥400

Note: Discounts available for students, seniors and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2025.7.24 - 2025.10.8

This DIY-themed exhibition explores the joy of creation. Along with featuring works from four solo artists, one artist duo, and two teams of architects, it also highlights works that invite audience participation.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM

2025.7.26 - 2025.11.3

This exhibition showcases works by Japanese women artists in the museum collection. It introduces a diverse array of works created by artists ranging from painters stereotyped years ago as “female artists” to their contemporary counterparts today.

Adults ￥200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

*From October 1, the admission fee will change to 220 yen.

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Okura Museum of Art

2025.7.29 - 2025.9.23

The two colors indigo and crimson symbolize Japan’s color culture. This exhibition introduces and explores these two colors, the history of indigo dyeing and safflower dyeing techniques, and the extraordinary designs and garments created with them.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

2025.8.2 - 2025.9.15

The second chapter of Shiko Munakata’s special exhibition. It introduces works expressing Munakata’s reverence for the people he respected as masters or collaborators, as well as his works created after 1942. This exhibition explores Munakata as an artist who showed his gratitude and appreciation for everything.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2025.8.2 - 2025.11.24

To mark this milestone 30th anniversary, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents “Nine Profiles: 1935→2025,” a survey of 90 years of art exhibited over nine rooms, each dedicated to a different ten-year period.

Adults ￥500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yamatane Museum of Art

2025.8.9 - 2025.9.28

This exhibition features famous works from popular Edo period (1603-1867) painters, such as Tōshūsai Sharaku, Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige. The museum’s entire ukiyo-e collection will be displayed, divided into two parts: the first half and the second half of the exhibition.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Itabashi Art Museum

2025.8.23 - 2025.9.28

This exhibition focuses on the Kano school, encompassing an enormous number of artists from the Edo period (1603–1867). The works displayed here show episodes that convey each artist’s character and the various connections between artists.

Free

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2025.8.23 - 2025.11.24

The exhibition is the first mid-career retrospective for Aki Sasamoto (1980–). It will provide an introduction to the New York–based Sasamoto’s oeuvre and explore how her themes and methods have evolved over two decades as a working artist.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

SEN-OKU HAKUKOKAN MUSEUM TOKYO

2025.8.30 - 2025.11.3

Focusing on masterpieces by Heinz Werner, a renowned designer at famous European porcelain manufacturer Meissen, this exhibition introduces the porcelain art of contemporary Meissen.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2025.8.30 - 2025.11.3

This exhibition focuses on the Edo period (1603–1867) publishers who managed ukiyo-e painters and craftspeople. It introduces the work of publishers, especially Tsutaya Jūzaburō who produced works from famed painters Kitagawa Utamaro and Tōshūsai Sharaku.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

The Gotoh Museum

2025.9.2 - 2025.10.19

This exhibition introduces the arts and culture of samurai such as waka poetry, Chinese classics, calligraphy and the tea ceremony―scholarly pursuits explored by warriors from the Kamakura period (1185–1333) to Edo period (1603–1867). Browse approximately 50 works, such as portraits of samurai and more.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo National Museum

2025.9.9 - 2025.11.30

The seated statue of the Bodhisattva Maitreya (Miroku Bosatsu), a masterpiece and national treasure in the Northern Round Hall of Kohfukuji Temple in Nara from famed Buddhist sculptor Unkei, is on public display outside the temple for the first time in nearly 60 years. Seven Buddhist figures designated as national treasures will be on display together, recreating how the temple’s inner sanctuary must have looked at the time of its reconstruction during the Kamakura period (1185-1333).

Adults ￥1,700

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Suntory Museum of Art

2025.9.10 - 2025.11.3

The Tosa painter Kinzō, better known as the enigmatic genius Ekin, created many dramatic folding screens from the closing days of the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the early Meiji era (1868-1912). This exhibition marks the first large-scale retrospective of Ekin's work in an art museum in Tokyo.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

Hachioji Yume Art Museum

2025.9.12 - 2025.11.3

A special exhibition for renowned contemporary Australian artist Dean Bowen. This exhibition introduces works—including prints, oil paintings, watercolors and sculptures—depicting landscapes, living creatures and people’s lifestyles.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2025.9.12 - 2025.12.21

This exhibition features over 30 works by Vincent van Gogh, as well as four letters on display in Japan for the first time. It focuses on Vincent’s works and dreams, as shared with future generations by his brother Theo and Theo’s wife Jo.

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Note: On weekends, national holidays, and from Tuesday, December 16 onward, admission will be by timed-entry reservation.

Nezu Museum

2025.9.13 - 2025.10.19

Focusing on yakishime ceramics, which is unglazed and high fired so that the clay vitrifies, this exhibition introduces masterpieces that reflect a distinctively Japanese aesthetic—an admiration for these simple ceramics that allow one to appreciate the natural qualities of the clay.

Online timed-entry ticket Adults ￥1,300

Note: Discounts available for students

SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM

2025.9.13 - 2025.11.9

A solo exhibition of the painter Toneyama Kojin. This exhibition traces Toneyama’s journeys to ancient sites and rituals in places such as Mexico, India, China, and Japan’s decorated kofun tombs, through a diverse range of works including oil paintings and prints.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Station Gallery

2025.9.13 - 2025.11.9

The first exhibition in Japan of the collection of Indian chintz collector, Karun Thakar. This exhibition introduces the charm of Indian chintz, which has been used for clothing, religious rituals, and interior decoration for thousands of years.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

The Sumida Hokusai Museum

2025.9.16 - 2025.11.24

This exhibition focuses on Katsushika Hokusai as a master of bijinga (pictures of beautiful women), although he is more famous for his landscapes. It explores Hokusai’s roots in bijinga and the evolution of his style in that genre, while also introducing works from other ukiyo-e artists of his era.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students, seniors and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Art Center, Tokyo

2025.9.17 - 2025.12.15

The largest ever Bvlgari exhibition in Japan. Based on the theme of “colors,” it showcases approximately 350 pieces of precious jewelry, modern art, installations, and more.

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Paper Museum

2025.9.20 - 2025.11.30

Introducing the appeal of composite art by asking how ukiyo-e prints are created, this exhibition examines the roles and manufacturing processes of the publishers, painters, woodcarvers, printers and others involved.

Adults ￥400

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Ueno Royal Museum

2025.9.20 - 2025.11.9

An exhibition that brings an unprecedented experience of Shosoin is coming. Taking a unique and innovative approach, the exhibition will unveil the splendor of the Shosoin Repository and its treasures from nearly 1,300 years ago, using cutting-edge digital image, music and lighting technologies.

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students

Fuchu Art Museum

2025.9.20 - 2025.12.7

Cats typically played a supporting role in western paintings, but painter FOUJITA Tsuguharu (Léonard Foujita) placed them center stage in a wide range of creative works. This exhibition introduces pictures of cats considered to be subject matter unique to Japanese Western-style painting.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Sompo Museum of Art

2025.9.20 - 2025.12.14

An exhibition of works from Maurice Utrillo, a painter known for depicting the cityscapes of early 20th-century Paris. This exhibition presents a comprehensive view of Utrillo’s body of work through approximately 70 artworks and other materials, ranging from his early to late periods.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

Takehisa Yumeji Museum

2025.9.20 - 2025.12.21

Discover works from the early Showa era by painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa, who is widely known as a symbol of Taisho Roman culture. Based on the theme of “Yumeji in Showa,” this exhibition introduces the results of the artist’s visits to western countries and lesser-known aspects of this period.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

2025.9.21 - 2025.11.5

The final chapter of this Shiko Munakata special solo exhibition. It introduces woodblock prints depicting sacred figures that many consider the ultimate works from Munakata, who felt close to Buddha from a young age.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2025.9.26 - 2025.11.24

This exhibition showcases the works of Maruyama Ōkyo, a famous 18th-century painter from the Kyoto Gadan school. It explores how he became an innovator and a great master through major works, such as his newly discovered first collaboration with Itō Jakuchū.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students, seniors and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass