The Tokyo edit
Places worth your time
The museums, garden and temple behind our Tokyo selection.
The museums, garden and temple behind our Tokyo selection. Explore our growing Tokyo selection, with checked details and official sources.
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Theatre Tram
An intimate Sangenjaya stage puts smaller-scale productions close to the audience.
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Kanze Noh Theater
A Ginza Noh stage offers a contrasting rhythm to the shopping streets outside.
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Yarai Noh Theater
A Kagurazaka Noh theatre gives a neighbourhood visit a performance-led purpose.
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Suzumoto Engeijo
Rakugo and variety performance keep an Ueno evening rooted in live storytelling.
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Asakusa Toyokan
Asakusa variety acts offer a compact introduction to the neighbourhood’s comic stage.
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National Film Archive of Japan
Film history and curated screenings give Kyōbashi a moving-image destination.
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Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
A compact Jingūmae museum rewards attention to its changing contemporary-art programme.
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Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
An Aoyama studio and garden open a personal route into Okamoto’s world.
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Yoku Moku Museum
A residential Aoyama setting offers a focused encounter with ceramic art.
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Toguri Museum of Art
Japanese porcelain gives a Shōtō walk a calm, concentrated museum stop.
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Matsuoka Museum of Art
A Shirokanedai collection brings sculpture and decorative arts into a manageable visit.
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Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Changing exhibitions add visual art to a Hatsudai cultural outing.
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TOTO Gallery MA
Architecture exhibitions make a focused Roppongi stop for design-minded visitors.
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Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
Art and design exhibitions offer a quieter reason to explore Shiodome.
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Sompo Museum of Art
A Shinjuku art museum makes room for painting between the district’s busier streets.
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Ad Museum Tokyo
Advertising history offers a revealing way to read Japan’s visual culture.
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Nikon Museum
Cameras and optical technology give photography enthusiasts a specialist museum stop.
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Meguro Parasitological Museum
A small specialist collection reveals a side of natural history rarely given a museum of its own.
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Tokiwasō Manga Museum
A reconstructed artists’ residence puts the beginnings of modern manga into physical space.
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Suginami Animation Museum
Animation techniques and history make Suginami a worthwhile stop for moving-image fans.
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Setagaya Literary Museum
Literature exhibitions offer a reason to take a slower trip into southern Setagaya.