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Shugoarts
Shugoarts brings contemporary artists into Roppongi’s complex665, a useful stop on a gallery afternoon.
The Tokyo edit
Places worth your time
The museums, garden and temple behind our Tokyo selection.
Explore our growing Tokyo selection, with checked details and official sources.
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Waseda University Aizu Museum
A university museum at Waseda, with exhibitions drawn from art, archaeology and the study of material culture.
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K's Gallery
Painting, printmaking and sculpture in a fourth-floor Nihombashi gallery with regularly changing shows.
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Gallery Nooog
A Torigoe gallery for illustration, drawing and small-scale exhibitions that reward a close look.
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New Gallery
A Jimbocho exhibition space bringing contemporary visual art into a neighbourhood better known for books.
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Zen Foto Gallery
Asian photography and small-edition photobooks in Zen Foto Gallery’s Roppongi space.
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Neort++
Digital and media art in a third-floor Bakurocho space, with projects that investigate life on and around screens.
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JCII Photo Salon
A dedicated photography exhibition room in Ichibancho, separate from the neighbouring camera museum display.
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Orie Art Gallery
A Kita-Aoyama gallery connecting contemporary art, textiles and architectural spaces.
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Kinosho Kikaku
A Kyobashi contemporary-art gallery where drawing and painting are central to discovering younger artists.
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Nishimura Gallery
A long-running gallery in Nihombashi, with a history of connecting British and Japanese contemporary art.
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Eukaryote
A Jingumae gallery for contemporary painting and other visual practices, close to the Watari Museum.
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Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery
A third-floor art-and-design gallery at Roppongi Hills, with its own programme below the tower’s main museum.
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Kameido Art Center
An artist-run Kameido space combining exhibitions with a café-bar and occasional workshops or conversations.
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Goyo Gallery
Goyo Gallery’s contemporary-art room on the third floor of Terrada Art Complex II in Higashi-Shinagawa.
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Gallery Towed
A Kyojima gallery that introduces contemporary artists in the quieter streets of Sumida.
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Atelier Uchino
An art space in Yanaka for exhibitions that can connect painting, sculpture and other small-scale practices.
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Axis Gallery
A Roppongi exhibition venue inside the AXIS design building, with projects across craft and design.
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Nihonbashi N11 Gallery
A Nihombashi gallery for craft, objects and exhibitions that look closely at making.
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Biscuit Gallery
Contemporary artists and small exhibitions at biscuit gallery’s current eighth-floor home in Shinjuku.
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Garde Art Gallery
An Aoyama art project from design studio GARDE, presenting short-run exhibitions by contemporary artists.
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Everandart
A ground-floor gallery between Meguro and Fudo-mae, with exhibitions and occasional participatory projects.
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Noie Extent
A Yakumo exhibition space rooted in a framing shop’s approach to living with art.
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Otherwise Gallery
A contemporary-art gallery in Minami-Aoyama, continuing the programme formerly known as hpgrp Gallery Tokyo.