Current & Upcoming Exhibitions 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.

Tokyo National Museum

2025.3.25 - 2025.8.3

A project from the Tokyo National Museum and NHK introducing Japanese culture with immersive, high-definition videos. Learn about everything from Jomon pottery to anime, with a focus on national treasures and important cultural properties.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

National Film Archive of Japan

2025.4.8 - 2025.7.27

The fifth part of the exhibition series tracing the historical development of film genres. This time, the exhibition comprehensively showcases the lineage of animated films through approximately 130 posters, materials, and music displays.

Adults ￥250

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2025.4.29 - 2025.7.21

A solo exhibition of plastic artist Kenjiro Okazaki’s diverse works spanning architecture, environmental cultural sphere initiative, children’s books and robotics. It introduces approximately 100 works with a focus on new works created since 2021.

Adults ￥2,000

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2025.4.29 - 2025.7.21

As a special exhibition celebrating the museum's 30th anniversary, the display is organized into nine rooms, each representing a decade of contemporary art from 1935 to the present. The exhibition showcases works from the collection, including pieces by artists such as TSURUOKA Masao and KUSAMA Yayoi, presented from a variety of perspectives.

Adults ￥500

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

CHIHIRO ART MUSEUM TOKYO

2025.5.16 - 2025.7.21

This exhibition features works by picture book artist Chihiro Iwasaki depicting Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytales and European travel sketches. See the world of Hans Christian Andersen through the eyes of Chihiro Iwasaki.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yamatane Museum of Art

2025.5.17 - 2025.7.27

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Japanese-style painter Uemura Shōen, this exhibition showcases 22 works from her early to late career. Works depicting women by Ogura Yuki and Kataoka Tamako, who mark their 130th and 120th birth anniversaries respectively, are also featured.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

2025.5.29 - 2025.9.7

A touring, international exhibition designed by Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France. The approximately 50 works on display focus on Renoir and Cézanne but also include pieces by other famous artists such as Picasso.

Adults ￥2,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2025.5.31 - 2025.7.21

A major retrospective exhibition of works by Hirezaki Eiho, an artist active from the late Meiji period to the Showa period who has been called the last of the ukiyo-e painters specializing in bijin-ga (paintings of beautiful women). With 187 artworks in total, the works on display include woodblock prints, lithographs and original paintings.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

SEN-OKU HAKUKOKAN MUSEUM TOKYO

2025.6.7 - 2025.7.27

This exhibition delves into the patterns and motifs of ancient China, focusing on their mythology and views on life and death. Featuring Important Cultural Properties such as bronze mirrors, it explores the design aesthetics and ideologies behind them.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

2025.6.7 - 2025.8.24

A building-focused exhibition exploring the Former Residence of Prince Asaka. With a focus on its functional transformations from a royal residence to an art museum, the memories of the structure are unraveled through related works, photographs, and historical documents.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yayoi Museum

2025.6.7 - 2025.9.14

The third installment of this school uniform exhibition focuses on how students wear their uniforms. Through actual clothing pieces, exhibitions of works by artists and more, it considers school uniforms as a mirror reflecting social change.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Takehisa Yumeji Museum

2025.6.7 - 2025.9.14

An exhibition exploring the European art style of Art Nouveau as seen on magazine and book covers by painter and poet Takehisa Yumeji. It also introduces the work done by other artists of his time.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

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

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

2025.6.14 - 2025.7.27

The first chapter of a special exhibition showcasing the complete works of wood print artist Shiko Munakata. It explores Munakata’s attitude toward words — as an artist with a strong interest in words and phrases who carved images from poems and stories onto woodblocks.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

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

The Gotoh Museum

2025.6.24 - 2025.8.3

An exhibition showcasing masterful works of kana script from the Heian period. This exhibition explores the aesthetic sensibilities of the court nobility with a focus on the kana writing style which was respected as an artform and beautifully decorated ryoshi paper that showcases the elegant script.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Sumida Hokusai Museum

2025.6.24 - 2025.8.31

The exhibition introduces the work of Hokusai and his students through simple descriptions that will spur your interest in Hokusai and ukiyo-e. Please have a delightful time discovering that “Ah!” moment, that “Wow!” sensation.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

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.

Itabashi Art Museum

2025.6.27 - 2025.8.11

An exhibition featuring prize-winning artworks from a children’s book illustration competition. Also known as a stepping stone for new illustrators, this exhibition displays all of the prize-winning artworks from the competition.

Adults ￥900

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Hachioji Yume Art Museum

2025.6.27 - 2025.8.31

Kenji Miyazawa’s “The Night of the Milky Way Train” was adapted into a manga with illustrations created over 40 years by manga artist Hiroshi Masumura. This exhibition features beautifully colorful, original manga artworks from Hiroshi’s wife, Akiko Masumura.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2025.7.1 - 2025.9.7

Part 9 in the “Playful Art and Aesthetic Sense Series” introducing ancient art from Japan and the East. With a theme of flowers and birds, this exhibition showcases a diverse array of flowers and birds depicted in paintings, tea utensils and craftworks.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

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

Suntory Museum of Art

2025.7.2 - 2025.8.24

The second installment in the museum’s collection exhibition, “Unsettling Japanese Art.” Visitors can enjoy browsing this diverse collection of works — including colorfully painted ceramics, folding screens, scrolls, tiered boxes in Maki-e, and kimono with Kogin Sashi — organized according to six themes.

Adults ￥1,700

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

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

Bunkamura

2025.7.5 - 2025.8.27

This exhibition focuses on the picture books of Leo Lionni, a picture book author known for titles such as “Swimmy.” It introduces techniques such as collage, and features moving image contents that offer visitors a chance to explore Lionni’s worldview.
*Hikarie Hall (Shibuya) will serve as the exhibition venue.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

*From August 1, the admission fee will change to 2,400 yen.

Tokyo Station Gallery

2025.7.5 - 2025.8.31

This exhibition recontextualizes the artwork of painter Tsuguharu (Léonard) Foujita with an emphasis on photography, the exhibition’s keyword. It examines the relationship between painter and photography through portraits taken of Foujita, his use of photographs in painting, and photographs that he took himself.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Eisei Bunko Museum

2025.7.5 - 2025.8.31

This exhibition introduces the charm of writing instruments from the Chinese art collection of Hosokawa Moritatsu (1883-1970), the founder of Eisei Bunko, such as the classical “Bunboshiho” (four treasures): the brush, paper, inkstone and ink.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

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

Sompo Museum of Art

2025.7.12 - 2025.8.31

“Taisho Imagerie” is a general term for mass-produced reproductions that reflect the distinct aesthetic of Japan’s Taisho period. Discover the charm of this genre through works of major artists such as Takeji Fujishima and Yumeji Takehisa.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

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

Nezu Museum

2025.7.19 - 2025.8.24

This exhibition features the museum’s collection of paintings brought from Song and Yuan China, which were admired as Kara-e and paintings assimilating them were made in Japan. It showcases particularly significant works from the collection, including national treasures  “Fishing Village at Sunset” and “Quail.”

Online timed-entry ticket Adults ￥1,300

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

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