Current & Upcoming Exhibitions in Tokyo

Toyo Bunko Museum

2024.1.27 - 2024.5.12

Christianity has played an important role in the cultural exchanges between East and West. This exhibition traces the various interactions between East and West through Christianity based on valuable Christian manuscripts in various languages.

Adults ￥900

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Art Center, Tokyo

2024.2.14 - 2024.5.27

Henri Matisse is known as one of the greatest masters of 20th-century. This exhibition features a total of about 150 works and archival materials from the collection of the Musée Matisse Nice in France, including Cut-Outs, paintings, and sculptures.

Adults ￥2,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

2024.2.17 - 2024.5.12

This exhibition reexamines the former residence of Prince Asaka, which is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property. The architectural processes, people involved in its construction, interior design and materials, etc. are all explained.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2024.2.27 - 2024.6.2

This exhibition introduces Japanese painters’ depictions of their native mountains and seas, which have long been venerated as objects of worship, and represent ideal subjects for their art.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.3.1 - 2024.6.9

This group exhibition takes a fresh look at what photography and video means to contemporary artists from Japan and overseas. People’s recollections are considered in terms of both personal memories and public images.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

CHIHIRO ART MUSEUM TOKYO

2024.3.1 - 2024.6.16

50 years after Chihiro Iwasaki’s passing, this exhibition interprets Chihiro’s artwork through the three themes of “play,” “nature,” and “peace,” incorporating a modern scientific perspective.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Art Center, Tokyo

2024.3.6 - 2024.6.3

The recent pandemic triggered extensive contemplation about the state of society, our lives, and work. This exhibition considers those elements through contemporary art.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Fuchu Art Museum

2024.3.9 - 2024.5.6

Buddhist art was an opportunity for rich creativity. This exhibition introduces beautiful works full of ideas born in a Buddhist country, including Raigo-zu (coming of Amida Buddha to welcome the spirit of the dead) and Ito Jakuchu.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yamatane Museum of Art

2024.3.9 - 2024.5.6

Famous floral works including Okumura Togyū ’s Daigo and Fukuda Heihachiro’s Peonies are exhibited together. Complementing these Japanesque paintings, Western-styled paintings, such as Umehara Ryūzaburo’s Roses and Mandarin Oranges are also introduced.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

2024.3.11 - 2024.6.22

This exhibition introduces various items of regional clothing and accessories categorized by distinguishing attributes such as being long, large, round or tall.

Adults ￥500

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

2024.3.12 - 2024.5.12

Has the National Museum of Western Art been nurturing “Art of the Future”? This is the first large-scale exhibition to examine the museum’s role in exhibiting “contemporary art.”

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2024.3.13 - 2024.5.19

This exhibition introduces prints by famous Japanese graphic designers: Kazumasa Nagai, Tadanori Yokoo, Makoto Wada, and others.

Free

Mori Arts Center Gallery

2024.3.15 - 2024.6.2

Over 60 artworks by renowned artists, including Banksy and KAWS, from the MUCA collection, one of the largest urban art museums in Europe, are being presented in Tokyo for the first time.

Adults ￥2,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2024.3.16 - 2024.5.19

This exhibition examines the historical and artistic significance of two print art movements – the “Shin-hanga Shudan” group, mainly formed around Ono Tadashige, who actively participated during the Showa period, and its developmental offshoot, the “Zokei Hanga Kyokai” association.

Adults ￥900

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Nerima Art Museum

2024.3.16 - 2024.4.21

Marking the 150th birthday of Shuho Ikegami, a representative Old School painter in government-run exhibitions of works by the general public, this exhibition traces his life and outstanding works to examine the history of his paintings, while focusing on Old School painters from a new perspective.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

National Museum of Nature and Science

2024.3.16 - 2024.6.16

2019’s hugely popular “Mammals 2” special exhibition returns for a third installment. This exhibition elucidates the secrets of mammalian evolution under the twin themes of “Classification” (division) and “Systemization” (connection).

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

The Sumida Hokusai Museum

2024.3.19 - 2024.5.26

This exhibition introduces valuable Hokusai’s paintings and prints featuring the performing arts, such as Kabuki actors, dancing, and music of Edo painted some 50 years before his celebrated series, known as the “Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji.”

Adults ￥1,000

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Sompo Museum of Art

2024.3.23 - 2024.6.9

This exhibition focuses on Scandinavian paintings from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Featuring about 70 works from the national museums of Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Adults ￥1,600

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

2024.3.23 - 2024.7.7

This exhibition shows the face of Tokyo through the eras via vehicular information collected by the Edo-Tokyo Museum. The public’s lifestyles are revealed through one particular aspect of the city.

Adults ￥400

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2024.3.29 - 2024.8.12

The exhibition director, Shunji Yamanaka, is a design engineer, and this exhibition focuses on his prototypes and robots, that bring about cutting-edge technologies, and displays works produced in collaboration with seven groups of designers, creators, scientists, and engineers as “Future Elements.”

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2024.3.30 - 2024.7.7

These exhibitions feature Saeborg and TSUDA Michiko, winners of the fourth Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA).

Free

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

2024.3.30 - 2024.6.2

Along with displaying all the kosometsuke, a range of blue and white porcelains produced in folk kilns of Jingdezhen at the end of Ming dynasty in China and imported to Japan, this exhibition also introduces a wide array of distinct Chinese crafts produced in the course of the long history.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2024.4.3 - 2024.5.26

“One Hundred Views of the Moon” is a masterpiece from Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, an ukiyo-e artist active from the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period. Divided into Tsukioka’s early and late periods, a total of 100 works highlighting diverse themes—beautiful women of the Heian period, warriors, ghosts, and monsters—are on display here.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.4.4 - 2024.7.7

A collection exhibition based on the theme of time travel. With a starting point in 1924—100 years before the present day—the pre-war, post-war and present are connected by photographs and images inspired by Kenji Miyazawa’s “Spring and Asura” preface.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2024.4.6 - 2024.7.7

Solo exhibition by Ho Tzu Nyen. His works traverse the historical events, political ideologies, and subjectivities of Southeast Asia. This exhibition includes Ho’s earliest video installation, along with his latest works.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art

2024.4.6 - 2024.6.9

An exhibition introducing the life of the ancient Romans focused on their Thermae (public baths) via more than 100 paintings and sculptures along with videos belonging to the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yayoi Museum

2024.4.6 - 2024.6.30

The first solo exhibition in Tokyo to feature the beautiful retro illustrations of the modern world by popular illustrator MATSUO Hiromi. In addition to various outstanding works, her latest book – scheduled for release in April 2024 – is also introduced.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

The Gotoh Museum

2024.4.6 - 2024.5.6

The Heian era was a period of dynastic cultural maturity. This exhibition introduces this elegant world through 50 of the finest works from the Gotoh Museum and Dai-tokyu Memorial Library collections, including ancient calligraphy and paintings from that period.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Takehisa Yumeji Museum

2024.4.6 - 2024.6.30

Yumeji Takehisa was a Taisho Romantic painter whose interest in small creatures led to raising several himself. This exhibition introduces his unique depictions of various fauna, such as birds, insects, and fish.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Nezu Museum

2024.4.13 - 2024.5.12

Ogata Korin’s “Iris Screens” represent the ultimate expression of design inherent to Japanese art. This exhibition also considers Japanese art from the perspective of design, with a focus on early modern works.

Online timed-entry ticket Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

2024.4.13 - 2024.6.9

This exhibition displays the full “Heaven and Hell” series, long considered the masterpiece of painter, Kawanabe Kyosai, along with “Nirvana Painting of Matsuura Takeshirō.” Takeshiro’s treasured keepsakes, as illustrated, are displayed alongside as a 3D reproduction of “Nirvana Painting of Matsuura Takeshirō.”

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo National Museum

2024.4.16 - 2024.6.9

On the 850th anniversary in 2024 of the founding of Jodo-shu (Pure Land School) by Honen, this exhibition traces the sect’s history through valuable artifacts, including national treasures and important cultural assets, held by temples throughout Japan.

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Toguri Museum of Art

2024.4.17 - 2024.6.30

The approximately 80 exhibits in this exhibition highlight the beauty of repetitive patterns, such as geometric and arabesque, in Kinrande-style Imari ware and Nabeshima ware of the Edo era.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Suntory Museum of Art

2024.4.17 - 2024.6.16

This exhibition introduces the varied charms of famous works alongside curiosities from multiple perspectives by showing paragons and puzzles from the collection of the Suntory Museum of Art.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2024.4.18 - 2024.7.7

The exhibition presents an opportunity to embrace someone else's and your own "My Words" through the works of five artists who carefully examine and attempt to depict the existence of different languages in society and the differences within the same language.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2024.4.18 - 2024.6.16

The aesthetic sensibilities of Sen no Rikyu, Furuta Oribe, and Kobori Enshū, leaders of the tea ceremony world from the Momoyama period through the early Edo period are explored through the tea utensils handed down through the Mitsui family. Their numerous calligraphic works and paintings, tea bowls, and tea containers born from individual aesthetic sensibilities are on display.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum

2024.4.20 - 2024.9.1

This exhibition reviews the activities of the Sodeisha, a group of avant-garde ceramic artists established in Kyoto in 1948, who pioneered ceramics in postwar Japan, and presents materials introducing their contemporaneous avant-garde ceramic art activities.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mori Art Museum

2024.4.24 - 2024.9.1

The first solo exhibition in Japan by the Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates. A broad scope of his works and activities, including ceramics created in Tokoname City (Aichi prefecture), are on display.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

WHAT MUSEUM

2024.4.26 - 2024.8.25

This exhibition casts a spotlight on Structural Design, the innovative framework of architecture, tracing from the world’s oldest surviving wooden building, the Five-storied Pagoda at Horyu-ji Temple, to lunar structures currently under development. It showcases over 100 structural models from well-known architectural masterpieces.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2024.4.27 - 2024.8.29

The first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by Giorgio de Chirico in a decade. A review of his painting career under such themes as “Piazza d'Italia (Italian Piazza),” “Metaphysical Interior,” and “Mannequin.”

Adults ￥2,200

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

※Timed entry reservations required on weekends and holidays, and on the weekdays of August 20th (Tue) to 23th (Fri), August 26th (Mon) to 27th (Tue). (Walk-in guests will be accommodated if space is available.)

Tokyo Station Gallery

2024.4.27 - 2024.6.23

How have our interactions with animals evolved since the Edo era? This exhibition introduces their characteristic ways and looks from about 610,000 pieces in the Edo-Tokyo Museum’s collection in chapters.

Adults ￥1,300

Note: Discounts available for students

Eisei Bunko Museum

2024.4.27 - 2024.6.23

Hosokawa Shigekata, 6th head of the Kumamoto clan, created various illustrated reference books of natural history, including flora, fauna and insects. This exhibition displays the complete collection of these natural history sketches held by the Eisei Bunko Museum for the first time in 33 years.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Itabashi Art Museum

2024.5.3 - 2024.6.16

This exhibition features previously unreleased works from the Kikūan Collection as well as other carefully selected pieces. Discover the charms of Yofuga Western-style paintings exploring an entirely new style of expression and adding a fresh new feeling to modern Japanese painting.

Free

The Gotoh Museum

2024.5.11 - 2024.6.16

Focusing on kacho-ga bird-and-flower prints from artists such as Hashimoto Gaho, Kawabata Gyokusho, Yokoyama Taikan, Kawai Gyokudo and Yasuda Yukihiko, this exhibition features approximately 40 representative works of modern Japanese artists from the Meiji to Showa periods.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yamatane Museum of Art

2024.5.12 - 2024.7.7

This exhibition brings together a vast array of artworks—from the Edo period to today—depicting dogs and cats, such as “Puppies with Chrysanthemums” by Nagasawa Rosetsu and “Tabby Cat” by Takeuchi Seihō. The exhibition also introduces remarkable works featuring familiar animals.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Nerima Art Museum

2024.5.19 - 2024.7.7

A solo exhibition from modern artist Kimiyo Mishima. The exhibition surveys the trajectory of this artist’s works that transform information and trash into artistic expression while casting a critical gaze toward society’s mass production and information overload.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2024.5.21 - 2024.8.25

Experience collections from museums in three different cities—Paris, Tokyo and Osaka. This unique exhibition creatively brings together a trio of collections to highlight works with common aspects from three different museums.

Adults ￥2,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Idemitsu Museum of Arts

2024.6.1 - 2024.7.7

This exhibition introduces works from three artists that the museum’s first director, Idemitsu Sazo, knew well and supported in their artistic activities: ceramics from Itaya Hazan, paintings from Kosugi Hōan, and works from Georges Rouault.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2024.6.1 - 2024.7.28

This exhibition showcases Japanese fans—must-have summer items for any Edo (now Tokyo) local—featuring ukiyo-e. Enjoy superb pieces from Kuniyoshi Utagawa with a delightful variety of images such as kabuki actors, beautiful women, cats, and more.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities