Best Art Museums Spot List

An art gallery located in Daikanyama. Works by Japanese and international artists and emerging young artists are available for purchase, including works for display at hotels.

From the works of masters to rising artists, get in touch with various works by Aomori artists

A rare, underground art museum

This art museum houses many pieces of artwork, mainly paintings, woodblock prints, sculptures, and others that were created by the hands of artists who have a tie with Kawagoe.

It is a toy museum designed to attract people of all ages, from babies to the elderly. Visitors can see, touch, play, and learn while having fun.

This is Japan's only national art museum, where you can view various Western artworks, including the Matsukata collection, which mainly consists of French artworks.

Directly connected to Mitsukoshimae Station, the Mitsui Memorial Museum features masterpieces of Japanese and Eastern art acquired by members of the Mitsui family over 350 years. There is no permanent exhibition.

Artworks await to gratify your spirit

An orient art museum overflowing with green

It has over 5,000 pieces of Japanese and Oriental antique art. The building in the shinden-zukuri aristocratic architectural style (developed between the late 7th to early 11th century) and the Japanese garden are worthy of a viewing.

You can experience the world of Mitsuo Aida, a poet and calligrapher who emphasized the preciousness of life with his own phrases and unique styles of calligraphy.

It is an art museum in Marunouchi that holds Japanese contemporary art oriented exhibitions.

An art museum surrounded by dense forests, deep in the mountains

A museum inside the building of Tokyo University of the Arts, the best out of all the art universities in Japan. It stores approximately 29,000 items of mainly Japanese modern arts.

This is an art museum that houses and exhibits modern and contemporary Japanese art. It hosts special exhibitions on a wide range of themes.

A butler-guided tour

In addition to the museum's various themed exhibitions and displays of Japanese modern and contemporary artworks, the location is also attractive due to the scenery that has made the place known as the museum with a superb view and rich natural environment.

A museum where you can relax surrounded by rich greenery. It positions art as a ”sustenance of mental health.”

The largest art museum in all of western Japan!

A museum were you can enjoy the modern works painted by the illustrators such as Takabatake Kasho who swept through the art publication world.