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.
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
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The collection of Japan's foremost art school, whose graduation works form a lineage of modern Japanese art.
A sculptor's own house and studio, joining a concrete workshop to a sukiya residence around a stone-and-water court.
The house where Taikan lived and painted, its studio arranged to look out over the garden.
Josiah Conder set a Jacobean mansion beside a Japanese wing, with a Swiss-style billiard house linked by tunnel.
Japan's first national art museum, holding more Important Cultural Properties of modern Japanese art than anywhere else.
Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.
The imperial collection, including Jakuchu's thirty bird-and-flower scrolls - the outer limit of precision in Japanese painting.
A faithful reconstruction of Conder's 1894 office block, showing late 19th-century European art.
Inside Tokyo Station, its galleries walled with the original 1914 brickwork uncovered during restoration.
Overlooking the palace moat, with a room of potsherds gathered from kiln sites worldwide - beauty taught through fragments.
Grown from the Bridgestone founder's collection, hanging Impressionism beside modern Japanese oil painting.
Three centuries of Mitsui family collecting; one of only two Japanese-made tea bowls designated National Treasure is here.
Japan's only national film institution, restoring near-lost prints to projectable condition.
Kengo Kuma kept the 1924 theatre face and set a 29-storey tower behind it - tradition and skyscraper in one frame.
A museum with no collection of its own: 14,000 square metres of galleries lent out - a container, by design.
A museum on the 53rd floor, and among the first in Japan to treat contemporary Asian art systematically.
Its stated theme is beauty in daily life - lacquer, glass and textiles shown as art because they were made to be used.
Korin's irises are shown each year exactly when the real irises bloom, in a garden hidden behind Omotesando.
An imperial prince who saw Art Deco in Paris brought French decorators home; Lalique's glass doors are still in place.
Conceived by Issey Miyake; Tadao Ando's roof is a single folded steel plate dropping almost to the ground.
Taro Okamoto's studio of nearly fifty years, left with paints and brushes as they were, its garden crowded with his sculpture.
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.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.