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13 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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teamLab Planets has expanded with new artworks

The massive extension of the digital art museum includes new areas such as 'Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest' and 'Athletics Forest'

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Best public art sculptures in Tokyo

Get out of the museum – Tokyo has plenty of artworks that are free to see out in the open

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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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Classic action manga City Hunter celebrates 40 years of cool in Ueno

‘Forever, City Hunter’ is a monumental tribute to Tsukasa Hojo’s iconic ’80s depiction of the Tokyo underworld

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Evangelion celebrates its 30th anniversary in style with this massive Tokyo exhibition

Discover three decades of groundbreaking visuals and world-building at this comprehensive celebration of the anime phenomenon

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Tokyo Art Book Fair

The annual Tokyo Art Book Fair (TABF) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Kiyosumi returns this December at a larger scale than ever before, taking...

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All of Evangelion: Evangelion 30th Anniversary Exhibition

The massive event will feature works spanning the franchise's decades-long history

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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...

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Continue Masaru Ozaki

Leading Japanese projection-mapping artist Masaru Ozaki is bringing his avant-garde works to Tokyo this December. A pioneer in utilising CG animation for...