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The best of Tokyo culture – art, music, theatre, film, TV and more

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Get to know Tokyo through its buildings at the Tokyo Architecture Festival in May

Now in its third year, the citywide celebration offers rare, free access to 70 notable structures usually closed to the public

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14 best art exhibitions in Tokyo right now

What's on right now at Tokyo's most popular art museums and galleries

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Pondering cosmic mysteries high above Tokyo at the ‘Orb’ exhibition

Dive deep into intellectual history with this immersive display inspired by the critically acclaimed manga and anime

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This Tokyo exhibition explores the process of curating art for an entire nation

The University Art Museum in Ueno looks back at 50 years of ‘NHK Sunday Museum’, Japan’s most influential art-focused TV show

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13 best free museums in Tokyo

Here are our favourite free museums in Tokyo for art, food, history, science and even taxidermy parasites

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See the world’s most famous work of Japanese erotic art now in Kabukicho

Hokusai’s ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife’ is the highlight of an exhibition showcasing Shunga prints by ukiyo-e masters

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The largest Doraemon exhibition in history just made its Tokyo debut

The immensely popular '100% Doraemon & Friends' has arrived in Japan after touring multiple cities across Asia

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Dive into Sebastian Masuda’s immersive kawaii world at Hyper Museum Hanno

The Harajuku icon’s first major solo exhibition in years turns a Saitama theme park into a psychedelic utopia of cuteness

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Sexy robots and sci-fi utopias: inside Hajime Sorayama’s stunning Tokyo retrospective

An extensive exhibition at Creative Museum Tokyo explores how the cult artist’s chrome-plated visions redefine the boundaries between the body and...

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A landmark exhibition of ukiyo-e prints from the 19th and 20th centuries is on show now in Tokyo

The Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum showcases how modern-era artists like Kiyochika and Hasui transformed Japanese woodblock printing

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Martin Margiela at Kudan House

Martin Margiela is one of the most influential and enigmatic figures in contemporary creative culture. The Belgian rose to prominence with the founding of...

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Sorayama: Light, Reflection, Transparency -Tokyo-

Having spent over four decades redefining the relationship between art, technology and desire, Hajime Sorayama is one of Japan’s most celebrated...

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Karl Walser

The Tokyo Station Gallery presents the first major exhibition in Japan to feature the works of Swiss artist Karl Walser (1877–1943), who built a...

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Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck has long been celebrated for redefining figurative sculpture through extraordinary craftsmanship and emotional acuity. After early work in film and...

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Andrew Wyeth: Boundaries or Windows

Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) forged a singular path apart from the dominant movements of his time. While abstract expressionism, pop art and neo-Dada...

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Mirror, mirror, mirror Mika Ninagawa

Internationally recognised photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa is hosting a solo exhibition at the homey and intimate DDDArt art gallery in...

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Eric Carle: Art, Books, and the Caterpillar

Did you even have a childhood if you didn’t turn the hole-punched pages of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Originally published in 1969, this...

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Sebastian Masuda - Kawaiitopia Go to Heaven (Hell)

Prepare your ponchos and panniers, as Harajuku J-fashion icon Sebastian Masuda has opened his first large-scale solo exhibition in years in Hyper Museum...

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YBA & Beyond: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection

Emerging in the wake of the Margaret Thatcher era, the Young British Artists (YBAs) and their contemporaries embraced shock, irreverence and entrepreneurial...