Museum Type: Art

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Takao Trick Art Museum

Museum where visitors can place themselves in a series of Egyptian themed fantastical scenes to create all manner…

Tokyo Trick Art Museum

Museum of 3D optical illusions some of which are large murals into which visitors stand and pose for photographs to make themselves part of the scene. Visitors are actively encouraged to bring their cameras.

Artizon Museum

Art museum established by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of the Bridgestone Corporation, the tire manufacturer. The Ishibashi Foundation has built on Ishibashi’s personal collection over the years and today the museum is an eclectic mix 2,600 pieces of Japanese, European, and American.

Eisei-Bunko Museum

A collection of almost 100,000 works of art and other objects collected by the Hosokawa Clan, a family…

The Gotoh Museum

A private museum in Setagaya Ward founded in 1960 by Goto Keita (1882-1959), the late chairman of the…

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

Crafts museum founded by Soetsu Yanagi in 1936 to display the beauty of arts and crafts in Japan,…

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

The museum focuses primarily on late 19th century Western art work—notably including 250 works of graphic art originally owned by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Ota Memorial Museum of Art

Art museum holding over 14.000 ukiyo-e works, including 12.000 works collected by the late Seizō Ota Ⅴ, a former former president of Tōhō Insurance Company.

The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum

The world’s first publicly run museum dedicated to bonsai near Saitama’s Omiya Bonsai Village. It was opened in…

Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum

This museum is the former home and studio of Okamoto Taro (1911-1996) whose surreal style was heavily influenced by his ten years in Paris during the 1930s.

Asakura Museum of Sculpture

This 3-floor building is the former residence and studio of Asakura Fumio (1883-1964) who came to Tokyo from…

Mitsui Memorial Museum

Over 4,000 exhibits, including six designated as National Treasures, from the collections of the Mitsui family and Mitsui Group.