Current & Upcoming Exhibitions in Tokyo

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

2024.3.29 - 2024.9.8

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

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2024.6.18 - 2024.10.13

An exhibition introducing the wide array of diverse art and expression, such as from the School of Paris and Fauvism, that adorned Paris at the start of the 20th century. This exhibition will also showcase artworks from Giorgio de Chirico and Paul Delvaux for the first time in approximately ten years.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Matsuoka Museum of Art

2024.6.18 - 2024.10.13

Glazed sancai (three-color) ceramic figures and painted ceramic figures were made primarily to be buried in tombs during China’s Tang Dynasty. This exhibition examines the charms of these ancient tomb figures on display, such as sancai horses, that are so remarkably full of life.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.6.20 - 2024.9.29

Viewing the earth’s ecosystem—including humans—as a complete satoyama or a “space where humans and nature coexist,” this solo exhibition from nature photographer Mitsuhiko Imamori conveys the connections between people and nature through beautiful images and endearing words.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Sompo Museum of Art

2024.6.22 - 2024.9.23

A display of approximately 240 works from Lautrec. Focusing on his sketches, this exhibition also introduces his lithographs and posters, as well as magazines and books featuring his designs and bindings, and even letters and photographs that reveal who he was as an artist.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

CHIHIRO ART MUSEUM TOKYO

2024.6.22 - 2024.10.6

Along with offering interactive works by the art unit plaplax, this exhibition interprets Chihiro Iwasaki’s illustrations from the perspective of developmental psychology and contemplates the present and future of children.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo National Museum

2024.6.25 - 2024.9.23

This exhibition was conceived when Rei Naito encountered the Tokyo National Museum’s collection and architecture. She discovered a human soul in the clay objects of the Jōmon period that resonates with her own creativity.
In the second venue, shutters that had been closed for many years were opened to allow natural light to illuminate the space.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art

2024.6.29 - 2024.9.16

This is the first exhibition at a Japanese art museum to display the major works of renowned 20th-century Danish furniture designer Poul Kjærholm, many of which are on loan from the collection of Noritsugu Oda.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Takehisa Yumeji Museum

2024.7.6 - 2024.9.22

Commemorating 140 years since the birth of Yumeji Takehisa, this exhibition introduces approximately 250 artworks and other materials, including pieces new to the collection, highlighting paintings and portraits spanning roughly 30 years from Takehisa’s artistic debut at the end of the Meiji period to the start of the Showa period.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Yayoi Museum

2024.7.6 - 2024.9.22

This exhibition showcases roughly 400 drawings from illustrator Kasho Takabatake, a famous artist in the field during the early Showa Era (early 20th century). The event celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Yayoi Museum while looking back at its history, and it even features a re-creation of the Kasho Goten residence in which Takabatake lived.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Miraikan - The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

2024.7.10 - 2024.10.14

Have fun learning together with TOUKEN RANBU characters about Japanese swords and their influence on contemporary Japanese technologies and culture. This exhibition is based on the concept of preserving culture and ideas for the future.

Adults ￥2,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Toguri Museum of Art

2024.7.11 - 2024.9.29

An exhibition exploring the charms of Imari ware—Japan’s earliest domestically produced porcelain—through the food culture of the Edo period.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Station Gallery

2024.7.13 - 2024.9.23

A grand retrospective exhibition of renowned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon. This exhibition introduces approximately 230 works ranging from Folon’s early drawings to his watercolor paintings, prints, posters and three-dimensional works.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students

Tokyo National Museum

2024.7.17 - 2024.9.8

Commemorating 1,200 years since the founding of Jingoji Temple and 1,250 years since the birth of Kukai, this exhibition introduces precious cultural treasures associated with Kukai such as national treasure Buddha Yakushi and the Mandala of the Two Worlds (Takao Mandala).

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

National Museum of Nature and Science

2024.7.13 - 2024.10.14

This exhibition explores a world of diverse insects—from insect specimens selected with great care and enthusiasm by the dedicated researchers at the National Museum of Nature and Science to enormous model insects exceeding 2m in length—along with the latest research on insects.

Adults ￥2,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.7.18 - 2024.10.6

This exhibition focuses on the increasingly diverse forms of visual information we experience in our modern world while reexamining the act of "seeing" in day-to-day life through domestic and international pieces that convey the richness of history and experiences found in the action of seeing.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

2024.7.19 - 2024.11.4

Introducing beads from approximately 40 countries, such glass beads valued highly as trading goods, European dresses with beaded embroidery, clothing and accessories from various communities across Asia and Africa, and more.

Adults ￥500

Note: Discounts available for students

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

TOKYO METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM

2024.7.20 - 2024.10.9

This exhibition will introduce Yuichi Enomoto, Kiichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Kurashina, Haruka Furusaka, and mirocomachiko, who create works closely tied to nature. This display reconsiders the relationships between nature and humans through diverse artworks—such as photographs, woodblock prints and oil paintings.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Yamatane Museum of Art

2024.7.20 - 2024.9.23

This exhibition will feature the museum’s entire collection of works from Japanese painter Higashiyama Kaii and introduce his landscape paintings depicting the changing seasons. Other famous and remarkable artworks with a summer theme will also be on display, ranging from ukiyo-e to modern and contemporary Japanese paintings.

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Eisei Bunko Museum

2024.7.27 - 2024.9.23

This is the museum’s first exhibition to focus on the Kuyo-mon, the Hosokawa family crest. This exhibition features a wide array of items displaying the Hosokawa family crest—such as arms, furniture, and textiles—and explains these items’ connections to the Hosokawa family and the Kuyo-mon crest.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

2024.7.27 - 2024.9.23

This special exhibition introduces the Tokiwadai Photography Studio, which has been relocated and restored in its current location, as well as its history throughout the early twentieth century (during Japan's Showa era). The exhibition also explores the emergence of the compact camera and the changes it brought to photography.

Adults ￥400

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Nerima Art Museum

2024.7.28 - 2024.9.23

This exhibition explores the architectural world of Akihisa Hirata, covering the architect's personal history as well as the new Nerima Art Museum, Hirata's ongoing projects, and things to come in the future.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

2024.7.30 - 2024.11.3

This exhibition primarily uses video material works from Toshio Iwai— one of Japan’s most famous media artists whose works are also part of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s collection—to introduce the history and mechanisms of image creation.

Adults ￥700

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

2024.8.3 - 2024.9.29

Featuring oni, tengu, kappa and other Japanese creatures and demons along with vengeful spirits and ghosts, this exhibition offers a look at beings both repulsive and humorous, depicting them all in ukiyo-e print format.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2024.8.3 - 2024.11.10

Introducing a large-scale solo exhibition by artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu. Taking his interest in everyday life and social phenomena as a starting point, he invites the viewer into the world of "One Person Democracy" through approximately 50 works and projects that both encapsulate and provoke communication.

Adults ￥1,500

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Gotoh Museum

2024.9.3 - 2024.10.14

Fifty ancient sutra transcriptions have been hand-picked from the archives of the Gotoh Museum and the Dai-tokyu Memorial Library for this exhibition. This group of inspirational sutra transcriptions, including solemn and full transcriptions from the Nara Period and flowery variants from the Heian Period, provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience for viewers.

Adults ￥1,100

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts

2024.9.4 - 2024.12.1

With a central focus on the works of ukiyo-e print artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–92), who was active during the late Edo Period and early Meiji Period, this exhibition explores the history of Meiji ukiyo-e.

Free

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

2024.9.5 - 2024.11.20

This exhibition showcases a rich array of works by Keisuke Serizawa, a naturally gifted dyer who made full and uninhibited use of color expression and patterns, and explores said works' collection and archiving by the museum. With the 130th anniversary of his birth approaching next year, this is the perfect opportunity to explore Serizawa's handiwork and keen eye.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Idemitsu Museum of Arts

2024.9.7 - 2024.10.20

Providing a look back at the history of study, research and collection efforts over the years by the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, this exhibition showcases masterpieces of yamato-e (Japanese style painting), butsu-ga (Buddhist painting), suiboku-ga (ink painting), bunjin-ga (literati paintings), genre paintings, rimpa, and calligraphy while retracing the museum’s research and collecting practices.

Adults ￥1,200

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

2024.9.10 - 2024.11.4

This exhibition provides an opportunity to view carefully selected, formal teaware from the families of feudal lords (daimyō), including the Tsukumo-Nasu and Matsumoto-Nasu tea containers. These and others once belonged to the Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu, families of the three great unifiers of Japan.

Adults ￥1,500

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Shoto Museum of Art

2024.9.14 - 2024.11.10

By exploring changing depictions of the sky in Japanese art, from traditional pictures on folding screens through to modern and contemporary Western-style paintings, this exhibition highlights changes in Japanese perception as seen through art.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Note: Shibuya residents are eligible for a discount.

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

2024.9.14 - 2024.11.10

The Looking at Architecture 2024 exhibition introduces the charms of the former Residence of Prince Asaka, an Art Deco–style residence completed in 1933 that now serves as the Main Building of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. The exhibition's focus this year is on lighting fixtures in the residence, and it also features furniture and furnishings found throughout.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2024.9.14 - 2024.11.12

This exhibition traces the history of Maitreya Beliefs, the “Buddha of the future” from its origins in the two great Buddhas of the East and West, built in the caves of the Bamiyan site.

Adults ￥1,500

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Sumida Hokusai Museum

2024.9.18 - 2024.11.24

Displaying artworks of Katsushika Hokusai and his students related to the Heian period and court literature. Introducing Hokusai and his students’ impressions of people and daily life of Kyoto in the Heian-period as well as their perspective about court literature.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Suntory Museum of Art

2024.9.18 - 2024.11.10

An exhibition commemorating 300 years since the death of acclaimed Edo-period painter Hanabusa Itchō. Introducing his signature works, including unique genre paintings vividly depicting ordinary people's lives as well as the first public showing of “Shaka with Sixteen Benevolent Deities .”

Adults ￥1,700

Note: Discounts available for students