GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki City Art Museum
In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
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GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Arts Maebashi
A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.
GunmaArt & CraftsKiryu
Okawa Museum of Art
The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.
GunmaArt & CraftsŌta
Ota City Museum and Library
Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.
GunmaArt & CraftsShibukawa
Hara Museum ARC
Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.
GunmaArt & CraftsMidori
Tomihiro Art Museum
For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Urawa Art Museum
One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawagoe
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.
SaitamaArt & CraftsWarabi
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum
A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashimatsuyama
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba City Museum of Art
Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.
ChibaArt & CraftsNarita
Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
ChibaArt & CraftsIchihara
Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
National Museum of Western Art
Le Corbusier's only building in Japan and a World Heritage Site, built on his idea of a museum that could grow forever.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Japan's first public art museum; Maekawa's rebuild sinks into the ground to keep the height of Ueno's trees.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
The collection of Japan's foremost art school, whose graduation works form a lineage of modern Japanese art.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Japan's first national art museum, holding more Important Cultural Properties of modern Japanese art than anywhere else.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.