Okura Museum of Art
Japan's first private art museum, in a Chinese-styled building by Chuta Ito, holding a Heian National Treasure Buddha.
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Japan's first private art museum, in a Chinese-styled building by Chuta Ito, holding a Heian National Treasure Buddha.
The Sumitomo family's Chinese bronzes are among the finest such holdings outside China.
A private museum of postwar Japanese ceramics, its spiral glass staircase designed as part of the display.
One businessman's collection spanning Egypt, Gandhara, Chinese ceramics and the Impressionists.
Japan's largest public museum for photography and moving image, from 1860s albumen prints to video art.
Soetsu Yanagi built it to show anonymous craftsmen's work as art; he designed the building and even the display stands.
Known for exhibitions about materials and technique - art seen from the side of making.
Holds the major surviving sections of the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls, shown just once a year.
Low pavilions in a park wood, with a deliberate policy of collecting self-taught artists.
For one of Japan's first professional women manga artists, showing her originals beside the art she collected.
Seiichi Shirai's masterwork: almost windowless, lit through an oval void at its centre.
Among Japan's largest ukiyo-e museums, hidden behind Harajuku, with a tatami-floored gallery.
Devoted to modern Nihonga; Gyoshu Hayami's moths circling a flame are shown only a few times a year.
A private porcelain museum that lines up one vessel type by date, so technique can be watched changing.
A 30-metre mural on the atomic bomb, lost in Mexico for decades and now hung in a Shibuya station passage.
Holds one of Van Gogh's seven Sunflowers, moved in 2020 from a skyscraper's upper floors to its own building.
Founded by Kusama herself; entry is by timed ticket only, so each visitor meets the work almost alone.
Known for its contemporary programme, and for a young-artist series it has run for over twenty years.
The record of a bakery owner's salon that supported artists, centred on the sculptor Morie Ogiwara.
Kenzo Tange's eight hyperbolic shells form a cross seen from above; inside, light falls only through a thin cruciform slit.
Devoted to illustration and popular imagery - printed pictures usually left out of art history, treated as the main line.
A million volumes of Asian studies; its centrepiece is a two-storey wall of books, the Morrison Library.
On the history of reproducing text, with a working letterpress studio visitors can use.
The first ward-run art museum in Tokyo, with two pillars: Edo Kano painting and international picture-book illustration.
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