Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Japan's largest contemporary collection, with ceilings high enough for installations nothing else can take.
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
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Japan's largest contemporary collection, with ceilings high enough for installations nothing else can take.
A block of 1840s Fukagawa rebuilt at full size, cycling through a day in light and sound.
Coloured glass cased over clear, then cut away to leave the pattern - a craft born of Edo townsman culture.
A Taisho industrialist's house joining a shoin wing to Western rooms, its garden ranked among Japan's best by a US journal.
Buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here - Maekawa's own house, a bathhouse, a street of signboard shops.
Designed from Miyazaki's own sketches, deliberately without a fixed route, so visitors get lost on purpose.
Nationally known for its Edo painting exhibitions, as sharp on unknown painters as on famous eccentrics.
A public museum devoted entirely to prints - rare anywhere - with workshops where the techniques are demonstrated.
A private collection running unbroken from the Renaissance to the 20th century - rare in Japan.
An art university's museum out in the town, linking its research to the public.
A small museum on the seventh floor of a shopping building, with a room for Yozo Hamaguchi's colour mezzotints.
A venue narrowed to pictures and words, showing picture-book and manga originals with museum discipline.
A museum with about 4,000 items centered on combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the techniques poured into hair ornaments.
Silk dyed yellow, brown and black using only the island's own plants, from dye pot to loom.
Kasuri patterns dyed by clamping threads between carved boards - an Amami technique reworked near Tokyo.
Stencil patterns so fine the cloth reads as plain from a distance; still dyed along the Kanda river.
A single silver sheet raised into a vessel by hammer, a line of Edo metalwork still worked in backstreet studios.
Designer, carver and printer each do their part; the colours are still layered block by block as they were.
The zero milestone of Japan's highways, guarded by winged kirin cast in bronze.
Cedar from all 47 prefectures lines the eaves, each set facing the direction of its own province.
Projected environments that respond to visitors' movement, which established permanent digital art venues in Japan.
The Mito Tokugawa garden, scattered with scenes copied from China; one bridge completes a full moon in its reflection.
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.