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14 best art exhibitions to see in Tokyo in 2026

Picasso and Paul Smith, Edo masterpieces, young British artists and sexy robots – Tokyo’s art slate looks packed this year

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15 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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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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The Edo-Tokyo Museum will finally reopen in March 2026

The history museum’s long-awaited reopening arrives this spring, complete with a free 100-day commemorative event

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Get a glimpse of Shinjuku Station's 'Cardboard Village' at this photo exhibition

Photographer Naoko Sakokawa's moving work shines an unflinching light on homelessness in 1990s Tokyo

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Capcom’s creative legacy comes to life at the gaming giant’s Tokyo exhibition

‘Capcom Creation’ showcases the world-conquering studio’s craftsmanship through some of its most iconic titles

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This 'My Melody & Kuromi' pop-up exhibition in Shibuya is dangerously kawaii

'Miniature Wonderland' celebrates the duo's stop-motion Netflix series released earlier this year

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Naked Meets Gaudi

Visionary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) transformed the landscape of modern architecture through his organic forms, bold...

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Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Hirohiko Araki began serialising JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1986, launching a saga that has since spanned decades, generations...

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Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal.

Roppongi Crossing, the Mori Art Museum’s acclaimed triennial exhibition series, returns at the end of 2025 with ‘What Passes Is Time. We Are...

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Capcom Creation: Moving Hearts Across the Globe

Founded in Osaka in 1983, Capcom has shaped the landscape of global gaming with legendary franchises like Street Fighter, Resident...

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Look Back Anime Exhibition

Adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s celebrated manga, the anime film Look Back (2024) is a quiet yet piercing meditation on creativity, loss and the...

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Masters of Swedish Painting from Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

Kicking off its centennial, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum presents this landmark exhibition that brings to Japan, for the first time on such a scale,...

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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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Black Markets and the Reimagining of Tokyo

Explore how post-war black markets shaped the evolution of Tokyo’s urban fabric at this intriguing exhibition, held at Takashimaya Archives Tokyo on...

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Osgemeos and Barry McGee: ‘One More’

The Watari-um’s ‘One More’ brings together two global icons of contemporary urban art: Brazilian twins Osgemeos and American artist Barry...

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Johnny Depp: A Bunch of Stuff – Tokyo

Johnny Depp may be best known for his eccentric on-screen roles, but long before fame, he was quietly building a collection of artworks. Now, more than 100...