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16 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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5 city-run museums in Tokyo are now offering free admission for ages 18 and under

Institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum are inviting young art explorers in for free until April 5

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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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5 best art day trips from Tokyo

These destinations for art and museum lovers are less than two hours from Tokyo, with art by Yayoi Kusama and Rothko

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The Edo-Tokyo Museum will finally reopen in March 2026

The history museum’s long-awaited reopening arrives this spring, complete with a free 100-day commemorative event

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Cthulhu collabs with Hokusai in this terrifyingly amazing new art book

A whole line of merch featuring artist Goki Yamada’s fusion of ukiyo-e and Lovecraftian horrors is coming out on March 24

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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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The world's largest immersive Pixar exhibition is coming to Tokyo in March

Step into the world of your favourite Pixar movies including 'Toy Story', 'Monsters, Inc.' and more

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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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Naked Meets Gaudi

Visionary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) transformed the landscape of modern architecture through his organic forms, bold...

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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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M. K. Čiurlionis: The Inner Constellation

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is one of Lithuania’s most celebrated cultural figures, a visionary who fused painting and music...

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Art Fair Tokyo

Celebrating two decades at the forefront of Japan’s art market, Art Fair Tokyo will take place from March 13 to 15 at the Tokyo International Forum....

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Look Back Anime Exhibition

Adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s celebrated manga, the anime film Look Back (2024) is a quiet yet piercing meditation on creativity, loss and the...

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Ghost in the Shell: The Exhibition

Celebrating three decades of Ghost in the Shell, one of Japan’s most influential sci-fi franchises, this large-scale exhibition takes over Tokyo Node...

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Andrius Arutiunian: Obol

Andrius Arutiunian (born 1991) is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer whose practice unfolds at the intersection of sound, ritual and speculative...

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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...