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Tokyo Metropolitan
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Museum of Photography
MAP C1 • Ebisu Garden Place,
1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku • 3280-0099
• Open 10am–6pm Mon–Fri
• Adm (only for special shows)
• www.syabi.com
The big names in Japanese and
Western photography are shown at
this premier photography and video
Exhibit at Idemitsu Museum of Arts art space. Five floors follow the
history of photo graphy, displaying
Idemitsu Museum
6 30,000 images and photo-related
of Arts
items. Special exhibitions, featuring
Housing one of the finest private some of the world’s best photographic
collections of Japanese and Asian work, run through the year.
art in Tokyo, this museum regularly
Tokyo National Museum
rotates its exquisite Chinese, 9
Korean, and Japanese This huge museum offers
ceramic ware and ancient the world’s largest collection of
pottery shards, calligraphy, Japanese art and antiquity.
and gold-painted screens. Permanent Japanese exhibits
The collection includes are displayed in the Honkan;
over 15,000 items archeo logical relics in the
(see p82). Heiseikan Gallery; Chinese,
Korean, and Central Asian
Mori Art
7 and Buddhist sculpture
arts in the Toyokan Gallery;
Museum
MAP T5 • 6-10-1 and scrolls in the Gallery of
Roppongi, Minato-ku Horyu-ji Treasures (see pp24–7).
• 5777-8600 • Open
ADMT Advertising
10am–10pm Wed–Mon Archeological 0
(to 5pm Tue) • Adm relic, Tokyo Museum Tokyo
• www.mori.art.museum National Museum The highly creative ad work
There’s no permanent on display at this venue is
collection here, but the enormous sponsored by Dentsu, Japan’s
gallery spaces atop Roppongi Hills’ largest advertising operation.
Mori Tower regularly host some of Exhibits cover the long history of
Tokyo’s biggest blockbuster art commercial art in Japan. A TV
shows, with the likes of Takashi room makes it possible to view
Murakami regularly showing. commercials (see p83).

Creative exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo

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