Tokyo · Sights

Best Art & Exhibits in Tokyo

16 places, each checked by our team.

• 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT 21_21 DESIGN SIGHTRoppongi — Tadao Ando and Issey Miyake's design museum in Tokyo Midtown's garden: a folded steel roof sunk mostly below ground, with thoughtful exhibitions on…
• Design Festa Gallery デザインフェスタギャラリー原宿Harajuku — Free artist-run gallery complex in the Harajuku backstreets, its scaffolding-clad buildings covered in murals and filled with dozens of small shows.
• FUJIFILM SQUARE フジフイルム スクエアRoppongi — Fujifilm's free photography space in Tokyo Midtown, with changing photo exhibitions and a small museum of cameras and photographic history.
• Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) ギンザ・グラフィック・ギャラリーGinza — A free gallery run by printing giant DNP that has staged over 400 graphic design exhibitions since 1986, a pilgrimage stop for designers in Ginza.
• NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] NTTインターコミュニケーション・センター［ICC］Hatsudai — NTT's media-art centre in Tokyo Opera City Tower, showing interactive works on technology, science and society.
• Origami Kaikan お茶の水 おりがみ会館Ochanomizu / Yushima — A family-run origami centre near Ochanomizu (founded 1858 as a washi dyer) with a free gallery of astonishing paper sculpture, a shop of thousands…
• Ota City Ryushi Memorial Museum 大田区立龍子記念館Magome / Ikegami — A museum devoted to Kawabata Ryushi, the maverick of modern Japanese painting known for gigantic folding screens, with his preserved home, atelier…
• Shiseido Gallery 資生堂ギャラリーGinza — Free contemporary art gallery run by Shiseido since 1919, one of Japan's oldest, in the basement of its Ginza headquarters building.
• teamLab Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM 森ビル デジタルアート ミュージアム：エプソン チームラボボーダレスAzabudai / Roppongi — The borderless digital-art world reborn at Azabudai Hills in 2024: artworks migrate between rooms, waterfalls flow down walls and a vast Bubble…
• teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM チームラボプラネッツ TOKYO DMMToyosu — Barefoot, immersive digital-art museum in Toyosu where you wade through knee-deep water filled with projected koi, sink into soft floors and stand…
• The National Art Center, Tokyo 国立新美術館Roppongi — Kisho Kurokawa's undulating glass wave in Roppongi: Japan's largest exhibition space, free to enter, with big touring shows and a restaurant perched…
• The Ueno Royal Museum 上野の森美術館Ueno — A privately run exhibition hall at the Ueno Park entrance that hosts big touring shows, including the Cincinnati Art Museum's European masterpieces…
• Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery 東京オペラシティ アートギャラリーHatsudai — A spacious, high-ceilinged gallery in the Tokyo Opera City tower at Hatsudai, known for ambitious contemporary art, architecture and design…
• Tokyo Station Gallery 東京ステーションギャラリーMarunouchi / Tokyo Station — An art gallery inside the 1914 red-brick Tokyo Station building, where exhibitions hang against the original exposed brick walls and the stairwell…
• Watari-um, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art ワタリウム美術館Jingumae / Gaienmae — A slim, striped Mario Botta building in Gaienmae that has championed edgy contemporary art since 1990, with a beloved art bookshop, On Sundays, at…
• WHAT MUSEUM (Tennozu) WHAT MUSEUMTennozu — Terrada Warehouse's contemporary art and architecture museum in a converted bayside warehouse at Tennozu Isle, showing private collections and…