Current & Upcoming Exhibitions in Tokyo

Toyo Bunko Museum

2024.8.31 - 2024.12.26

An exhibition commemorating 100 years since the founding of Toyo Bunko. These pieces from the museum’s collections, including national treasures and important cultural properties, transport visitors through time and space to experience the diverse peoples, languages, lifestyles, histories, religions and natural wonders of Asia.

Adults ￥900

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2024.9.3 - 2024.12.22

Exhibition of one of the largest collections in Japan of contemporary Japanese art from the late 19th century to the present. This exhibition features some 200 artworks, including newly acquired work by Max Ernst on display for the first time.

Adults ￥500

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Musée Hamaguchi Yozo: Yamasa Collection

2024.9.14 - 2024.12.15

This exhibition employs videos and printing experiences to introduce the art of color mezzotint—a technique that results in soft colors never seen before—by the copperplate artist, Yozo Hamaguchi.

Adults ￥600

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mori Art Museum

2024.9.25 - 2025.1.19

One of the largest solo exhibitions ever held in Japan for Louise Bourgeois, the artist who created the famous “Maman” sculpture in Roppongi Hills. Displaying approximately 100 works of sculpture, painting, drawing, and more.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2024.9.27 - 2025.2.16

Focusing on all manners of waste and excrement which we habitually avoid, this exhibition takes the new concept of “pooploop” as an opportunity to consider the circulation of the world.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Takehisa Yumeji Museum

2024.9.28 - 2025.1.26

This exhibition introduces articles related to the journalism career of Takehisa Yumeji, the famed Taisho Romantic painter who joined the staff of the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1907, as well as personal interviews with him. Learn more about both the Yomiuri Shimbun and Takehisa Yumeji at this exhibition.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Yamatane Museum of Art

2024.9.29 - 2024.12.8

An exhibition marking 50 years since the death of Japanese painter Fukuda Heihachirō. An extraordinary collection of artworks ranging from Heihachirō’s Taisho-period masterpiece “Peonies” to his final work “Autumn Colors, Playful Finches” Also showcasing famous pieces from the Rimpa School.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2024.10.1 - 2024.12.22

Why did unearthed objects attract attention only during a certain period of time? How did the evaluation of them spread? Why were artists so passionate about unearthed artifacts? With a focus on art, this exhibition traces from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the present day the genealogy of “motifs of unearthed objects” that have leaped onto the stage of cultural history to examine the changing gaze directed toward Haniwa, Jomon potteries, and Dogu.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

WHAT MUSEUM

2024.10.4 - 2025.3.16

The exhibition will display entrepreneur Takafumi Takahashi's contemporary art collection, featuring around 35 works, including conceptual art pieces by Bernard Frize, Tatsuo Miyajima, Kohei Nawa, and others.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to the Akihito Okunaka "Synesthesia - Crossing the senses with art -".

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

WHAT MUSEUM

2024.10.4 - 2025.3.16

Introducing balloon-like soft sculptures by artist Akihito Okunaka, themed around 'air, water, and light'. Visitors can touch and enter these shimmering works of art to experience them with all five senses. This allows them to feel a 'connection' with nature, society, and others.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to the T2 Collection "Collecting? Connecting?"Exhibition.

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art

2024.10.5 - 2024.12.15

Introducing art culture from La Belle Époque, a glamorous golden age for Paris. This exhibition features works from every field, from Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters to Emile Gallé’s craft pieces and Marcel Proust’s proofs.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mori Arts Center Gallery

2024.10.5 - 2025.1.5

An exhibition of works by the versatile and talented Momoko Sakura, who worked as a manga artist, essayist, composer and screenwriter. Showcasing approximately 300 pieces, such as original color pictures and writings including many from the famous Chibi Maruko-chan series.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

2024.10.5 - 2025.2.11

An impressive collection of masterpieces by impressionist painter Claude Monet. Along with the approximately 50 works brought to Japan from overseas—including works from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris now being shown in Japan for the first time—this exhibition also features pieces from collections all around Japan. This is one of the largest ever displays of Monet’s “Water Lilies” series, with over 20 pieces.

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2024.10.5 - 2024.12.8

Ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige was famed for his use of beautiful blue colors. This exhibition introduces many famous works vibrantly depicting scenery, flowers and birds with Hiroshige’s preferred shade of blue, known as “Berlin blue.”

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

2024.10.5 - 2024.12.15

The history of the former Musashino Folklore Museum—predecessor to the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum—is introduced by means of historic pamphlets and other paraphernalia. Also on display are archaeological, industrial, and folk exhibits related to Musashino.

Adults ￥400

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Nerima Art Museum

2024.10.6 - 2024.12.25

Painter Gyoji Nomiyama had his home and studio in Nerima. This exhibition features works spanning from his early period in the 1930s to his final works in the 2020s. Displaying oil paintings and prints, including his final works, along with his favorite items.

Adults ￥500

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Toguri Museum of Art

2024.10.10 - 2024.12.29

Displaying approximately 70 works of ceramics, such as Edo period Imari-ware and Chinese Ming Dynasty Jingdezhen porcelain. Focusing on human-shaped motifs, this exhibition considers the human figures in ancient ceramics and the personal relationships of their times.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.10.10 - 2025.1.19

A solo exhibition by Alec Soth, a photographer renowned around the world for his works focused on the American Midwest and other areas. This room-themed exhibition showcases a wide range of Soth’s photographs, from the artist’s first published series, which typifies his early works, to his most recent collection published this autumn.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Station Gallery

2024.10.12 - 2025.1.5

This is the first exhibition in Japan to explore the figure of Sir Terence Conran, the famous British designer who founded the Conran Shop and sparked a design boom

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Sompo Museum of Art

2024.10.12 - 2024.12.28

The first exhibition in Japan to introduce the detailed story of vedute (view) painter Maestro Canaletto. It traces the development of the genre of 18th-century view painting through Canaletto’s detailed and magnificent portrayals of Venice.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

CHIHIRO ART MUSEUM TOKYO

2024.10.12 - 2025.1.31

50 years after the death of Chihiro Iwasaki, this exhibition interprets her works through three themes of “play,” “nature” and “peace.” This new style of exhibition encourages audience participation through sight, touch and movement.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.10.17 - 2025.1.19

This exhibition seeks to discover and introduce upcoming photographers and videographers. This 21st edition focuses on five artists in particular: Emi Otaguro, Sayuri Kanno, Kenji Chiga, Shingo Kanagawa, and Yuki Harada.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

SEN-OKU HAKUKOKAN MUSEUM TOKYO

2024.10.19 - 2024.12.15

This is the first exhibition in Tokyo to focus on the three Otake brothers—Etsudo, Chikuha, and Kokkan—who were active through the Meiji and Showa periods. Their personalities and works are introduced based on both notable and newly discovered works, along with hitherto undisclosed materials.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM

2024.10.26 - 2025.1.13

This exhibition introduces works from Tatsuoki Nanbata, Masanari Murai and Hisao Domoto, painters associated with Setagaya and known primarily for abstract art. It examines the work of these artists who continuously pursued self-expression while remaining true to their core beliefs.

Adults ￥200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2024.10.29 - 2025.2.9

This exhibition focuses on the development of glazes, which contributed so much to Chinese ceramics. On display are about 50 examples of exquisite glazing—ranging from green glaze, three-color glaze, celadon and opaque bluish glaze —spanning some 1,500 years from the Eastern Han through Ming dynasties.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2024.10.29 - 2025.2.9

This exhibition focuses on paintings specifically of the Bunraku, Nohgaku, and Kabuki performing arts. Each has been selected from the collection of Seijiro Matsuoka, founder of The Matsuoka Museum of Art, who held a deep and abiding appreciation for traditional performing arts.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Art Center, Tokyo

2024.10.30 - 2024.12.16

First solo exhibition at an art museum in Asia by Ei Arakawa-Nash, a performance artist living in the U.S. The NACT regularly features live performances by Arakawa-Nash and others.

Free

Tokyo National Museum

2024.11.1 - 2025.2.24

This exhibition explores the uniqueness of Hello Kitty 50 years since her creation. Featuring the largest ever exhibition of Hello Kitty merchandise, artist collaborations, original videos, and fun photo spots.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Nezu Museum

2024.11.2 - 2024.12.8

This special exhibition uses herbalism to interpret how the “Medicine Chest with Herb Design”—which has been passed down through the Hachisuka clan (of the Tokushima domain)—was produced, while also focusing on its creator, Iizuka Tōyō I.

Online timed-entry ticket Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Artizon Museum

2024.11.2 - 2025.2.9

An exhibition presenting the abundant ways the human form has been portrayed in European art. The 85 works on display range from ancient Greek pottery to modern European paintings by the likes of Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to the Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Matisse’s Studio and Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko – On Physis.

Idemitsu Museum of Arts

2024.11.2 - 2024.12.25

This special exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Türkiye. On display are some of the finest treasures decorated with gold, silver, and jewels, and Chinese ceramics from the Topkapı Palace Museum , the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts and the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Artizon Museum

2024.11.2 - 2025.2.9

The Museum holds an annual Jam Session, an exhibition consisting of a collaboration of works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and new works by a contemporary artist. This fifth session presents new and older works by MOHRI Yuko, an artist who visualizes the flow of space and changing phenomena.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to the Looking Human: The Figure Painting and Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Matisse’s Studio.

Artizon Museum

2024.11.2 - 2025.2.9

To commemorate the addition of Henri Matisse’s “Dancer and Rocaille Armchair, Black Background” to the collection, this multi-perspective exhibition explores the role of the studio in Matisse’s creativity.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

*Admission tickets for this exhibition also allow entry to the Looking Human: The Figure Painting and Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × MOHRI Yuko – On Physis.

National Museum of Nature and Science

2024.11.2 - 2025.2.24

The first special exhibition at the National Museum of Nature and Science focused on birds. Introducing the origin of birds and the process of their evolution, this exhibition showcases an enormous number of remarkable bird specimens based on their lineage as revealed by the latest genome research.

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

2024.11.6 - 2025.2.24

This interactive exhibition allows visitors to immersively travel back in time using special terminals to when the Notre Dame—now a world heritage site—was first built in Paris. This exhibition has travelled the globe, but this is its first time in Japan.

Adults ￥1,800

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Itabashi Art Museum

2024.11.9 - 2025.1.13

An exhibition presenting the works of Leo Lionni, renowned for his picture books, such as “Swimmy” and “Frederick.” This retrospective looks at his paintings, sculptures, designs, illustrations and original picture-book drawings.

Adults ￥650

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2024.11.16 - 2025.1.8

Presenting eight artists whose works have been consistently showcased in public entry exhibitions. Features a variety of nostalgic paintings, such as scenes featuring children.

Adults ￥500

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2024.11.16 - 2025.1.8

A presentation of nostalgia—which differs between individuals, eras, age groups, and regions. Featuring nostalgic paintings of home towns and scenes of bygone days, along with photos of contemporary suburbs.

Free

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

2024.11.16 - 2025.1.13

Introducing artworks inspired by Heian literature, such as the “Tale of Genji,” and the “Tale of Heiji,” and other ancient poetic texts. On display are exquisite craftworks, such as the “Wakan Rōeishō Otagire” poetry anthology, and the “Channel Markers”(Miotsukushi) and “The Barrier Gate”(Sekiya) of the "Tale of Genji” by Tawaraya Sotatsu—both national treasures.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Hachioji Yume Art Museum

2024.11.16 - 2025.1.26

This exhibition is held to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the sisterhood of Hachioji and Nikko cities. Introducing a number of oil paintings, Japanese-style paintings, and watercolors based on the works of Kosugi Hoan, a renowned Nikko-born painter.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Okura Museum of Art

2024.11.21 - 2025.1.19

A retrospective exhibition commemorating the 100th birthday of dyeing and weaving artist Fukumi Shimura. Displaying a range of works, from “Autumn Haze” in her early period to “Beyond The Field II” completed just before her 100th birthday, as well as noh theater costumes from a new noh play entitled “Okinomiya” based on the original work by renowned writer Michiko Ishimure.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

2024.11.23 - 2025.1.26

Artworks by Toulouse-Lautrec will once again be displayed to commemorate the reopening of the art museum. Also featuring renowned French artist Sophie Calle, this exhibition considers both artists’ pieces from the thematic perspectives of “absence” and “existence.”

Adults ￥2,300

Note: Discounts available for students

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2024.11.23 - 2025.1.19

To coincide with the annual year-end display of the national treasure “Pine Trees in the Snow,” this exhibition introduces some of the most highly prized Chinese paintings, calligraphy, and old rubbings owned by the Mitsui family. In addition, appraisal certificates from Edo era artists and the boxes in which their artworks were stored are also on display.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Shoto Museum of Art

2024.11.30 - 2025.2.2

A solo exhibition featuring contemporary artist Yoshihiro Suda. Enjoy elaborate carvings—works so realistic that they could be mistaken for real weeds, flowers and dried squid—seamlessly integrated into the architectural space designed by Seiichi Shirai as an incredible art installation.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass