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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

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.)

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

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

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

2024.6.1 - 2024.8.25

Commemorating 140 years since the birth of Takehisa Yumeji, this exhibition examines his life from a new perspective. Approximately 180 works are on display, including pieces being shown for the first time and the famous mid-Taisho-period painting “Amaryllis.”

Adults ￥1,400

Note: Discounts available for students and senior citizens

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The Ueno Royal Museum

2024.6.8 - 2024.7.28

ISHIKAWA KYUYOH TAIZEN is a body of calligraphy that reflects the times in which this artist has lived. This large-scale exhibition questions the act of “writing”, both currently and in the future.

Adults ￥2,000

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

2024.6.11 - 2024.8.25

Manuscripts that support people’s religious beliefs and transmit knowledge. Through the donated collection of Dr. Hiroshi Naito—Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences—this exhibition introduces the roles and decorative aspects of manuscripts that became widespread during the period from the Middle Ages until the start of modern times, such as the Bible, the Book of Hours, and hymnals.

Adults ￥1,700

Note: Discounts available for students

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

The Sumida Hokusai Museum

2024.6.18 - 2024.8.25

To commemorate the adoption of the new Japanese banknotes, this exhibition will trace the background behind the creation of "Under the Wave off Kanagawa from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji'' and the various ways in which its design has been used.

Adults ￥1,500

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

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

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

Seikado Bunko Art Museum

2024.6.22 - 2024.8.25

After achieving great success when this museum was located in Okamoto, Setagaya, this sword exhibition, “Perfect Guide to Japanese Swords,” is now being brought back for its first exhibition in Tokyo’s Marunouchi district. The exhibition brings together nine swords that have been designated as national treasures and important cultural assets and features Japanese swords, with a focus on the Kamakura Period.

Adults ￥1,500

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

The Shoto Museum of Art

2024.6.29 - 2024.9.1

Commemorating the 111th anniversary of Junichi Nakahara’s birth, this exhibition encompasses Nakahara’s entire body of work. Highlights include original illustrations and cover images published in magazines such as Soreiyu (Soleil), clothing designs, paintings, dolls, and more.

Adults ￥1,000

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

Free entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

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

Mitsui Memorial Museum

2024.7.2 - 2024.9.1

This is the eighth exhibition of the “Playful Art and Aesthetic Sense” series to familiarize visitors with Japanese and East Asian antiquities. In this exhibition, visitors are invited to appreciate paintings and crafts using the five human senses.

Adults ￥1,200

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

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Suntory Museum of Art

2024.7.3 - 2024.9.1

This exhibition showcases treasures of the Owari Tokugawa family that are now in the collection of the Tokugawa Art Museum, including national treasures The Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls and the Hatsune Furnishings. These precious artifacts introduce the history of the Tokugawa and their lavish and elegant daimyo culture.

Adults ￥1,800

Note: Discounts available for students and people with disabilities

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

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

Fuchu Art Museum

2024.7.20 - 2024.9.6

This is the first-ever retrospective to be held for artist YOSHIDA Toshi, who was the son of renowned artist in the same fields, YOSHIDA Hiroshi. Toshi spent his later years traveling around the vast plains of Africa, calling upon his keen observational skills to depict animals and their habitats, and these famous prints will be shown at the exhibition.

Adults ￥800

Note: Discounts available for students

Discounted entry with Tokyo Museum-Grutto Pass

Bunkamura

2024.7.20 - 2024.9.1

This exhibition for artist Yasuhiro Suzuki features approximately 50 works, including his famous "Mabataki no Ha (Blinking Leaves)" and "Kuki no Hito (Aerial Being)" along with other pieces based on unique reinterpretative perspectives on small details he notices.
Note: Futako Tamagawa Rise Studio & Hall will serve as the exhibition venue.

Adults ￥1,000

Note: Discounts available for students

TOBACCO & SALT MUSEUM

2024.7.20 - 2024.9.1

This year's Annual Summer Holiday Exhibition for Children, a hands-on exhibition event, will feature the popular "shopping game" and teach participants the surprisingly wide array of usages for salt. It will also include a "Salt Laboratory" and other fun activities.

Adults ￥100

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

Free 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