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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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The Edo-Tokyo Museum is reopening March 31 – here's what's inside now

After four long years of construction, the massive museum reveals both upgraded and brand-new permanent exhibitions

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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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Dive into Sebastian Masuda’s immersive kawaii world at Hyper Museum Hanno

The Harajuku icon’s first major solo exhibition in years turns a Saitama theme park into a psychedelic utopia of cuteness

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Sexy robots and sci-fi utopias: inside Hajime Sorayama’s stunning Tokyo retrospective

An extensive exhibition at Creative Museum Tokyo explores how the cult artist’s chrome-plated visions redefine the boundaries between the body and...

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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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Insects: An Exhibition by Takeshi Yoro and Kenji Kohiyama – Look, Feel, and Think

Creepy-crawlies in all their vivid and alien-like forms take centre stage at ‘Insects’, a special exhibition on show from March 21 to May 24 on...

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Eric Carle: Art, Books, and the Caterpillar

Did you even have a childhood if you didn’t turn the hole-punched pages of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Originally published in 1969, this...

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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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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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Hanae Mori – Vital Type: The 100th Anniversary of Birth

Marking a century since the birth of one of the most remarkable people Shimane prefecture has ever produced, the National Art Center, Tokyo celebrates...

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Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck has long been celebrated for redefining figurative sculpture through extraordinary craftsmanship and emotional acuity. After early work in film and...

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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...

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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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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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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...