Art & galleries
Museums, galleries, art islands and street murals.
Nakameguro & Daikanyama
2 placesDaikanyama T-Site
代官山 蔦屋書店Daikanyama T-Site is a bookshop built in 2011 as three white pavilions wrapped in a lattice of interlocking T shapes, de…
Nakameguro Koukashita
中目黒高架下Koukashita, "under the elevated tracks", is a 700-meter strip of restaurants, bars and shops built in 2016 in the space…
Harajuku
2 placesDesign Festa Gallery
デザインフェスタギャラリーDesign Festa Gallery is a free, two-building art space in the back streets of Ura-Harajuku, run by the organizers of the…
Omotesando
表参道Omotesando is a kilometer-long boulevard of zelkova trees laid out in 1920 as the approach to Meiji Jingu, which became,…
Kichijoji
2 placesGhibli Museum
三鷹の森ジブリ美術館The Ghibli Museum is a museum designed by Hayao Miyazaki in the woods on the edge of Inokashira Park, opened in 2001 wit…
Inokashira Park
井の頭恩賜公園Inokashira Park is a 38-hectare park around a spring-fed pond that supplied Edo with drinking water, opened in 1917 as J…
Ginza
4 placesGinza Chuo-dori
銀座中央通りThe spine of Ginza runs for a kilometre between Kyobashi and Shinbashi, lined with flagship stores built by architects w…
Ginza Six
GINZA SIXThe largest shopping complex in Ginza opened in 2017 on the site of the old Matsuzakaya department store, with 240 shops…
Itoya Ginza
伊東屋 銀座本店A twelve-storey stationery shop founded in 1904 and still marked by a red paperclip over the door. Each floor takes one…
Kabukiza Theatre
歌舞伎座Kabuki has been performed on this corner since 1889, and the current theatre, rebuilt in 2013 behind a baroque Japanese…
Shimokitazawa
2 placesIkebukuro
1 placesOdaiba
2 placesMiraikan
日本科学未来館The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, a glass hall on the Odaiba waterfront whose centrepiece is a six…
teamLab Planets
チームラボプラネッツAn immersive art museum where visitors wade through water lit by projected koi, lie in a mirrored room under a universe…
Roppongi
3 placesMori Art Museum
森美術館A contemporary art museum on the 53rd floor of Mori Tower, higher than any other gallery in the world, with large themat…
National Art Center, Tokyo
国立新美術館Kisho Kurokawa's last major building, opened in 2007, is a rippling glass curtain wall that encloses an atrium the size…
Roppongi Hills
六本木ヒルズThe 2003 development that defined Tokyo's vertical-city ambitions, with a 54-storey tower, a cinema, a TV studio, apartm…
Yanaka
1 placesMarunouchi
1 placesUeno
2 placesTokyo National Museum
東京国立博物館The oldest and largest museum in Japan holds 120,000 objects, including nearly a hundred National Treasures, spread acro…
Ueno Park
上野恩賜公園Japan's first public park, opened in 1873 on the grounds of a destroyed temple, is a plateau of museums, shrines and che…