Edo-Tokyo Museum

Overview:
The museum exhibits the history and culture of Edo-Tokyo and envision the city and life of the future. The permanent exhibition, showcasing original objects and replicas, showing the 400-year history of Edo-Tokyo since Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum holds special exhibitions five to six times a year. From the exhibitions we can learn real life of common people culture like kabuki theater performances and Ukiyoe paintings and relations with European culture in 19th century. Also we learn modernized culture after Meiji restoration in Tokyo.

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

江戸東京博物館

Name: Edo-Tokyo Museum
Place: 1-4-1 Yokoami, Sumida-city, Tokyo
Admission: Adults JPY 600 (Permanent Exhibition)　clossed until 2025 under renovation
Established: 1993

Official website: https://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/en/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum

Overview: The museum was founded based on the ukiyo-e collection of late Seizō OtaⅤ, former president of Tōhō Insurance Company in order to show widely its collection to public.  This collection is not only covering representative masterpieces of ukiyo-e from its origin through all its stages, but also collecting both masterpieces of nikuhitsu-ga painting and ukiyo-e wood-block prints, which are two substantial portions of ukiyo-e.

Name: Ōta Memorial Museum
Place: 1-10-10 Jingu-mae Shibuya city
Admission: Changes depending on the exhibition
Established: January 13, 1980
Main exhibit.: The collection (total 14,000 pieces) has a remarkable character, not only masterpieces by Kitagawa Utamaro, Katsushika Hokusa and Utagawa Hiroshige but also masterpieces of ukiyo-e from its origin through all stages.

Official website: http://www.ukiyoe-ota-muse.jp/eng

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e_%C5%8Cta_Memorial_Museum_of_Art

Overview: The museum plays a comprehensive collection of art works and antiquities from Japan as well as other Asian countries. It shows approximately 600 outstanding works owned by the Tokyo National Museum in fields such as paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, decorative arts, and archaeology.

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館

東京国立博物館　トーハク

Name: Tokyo National Museum
Place: 13-9 Uenokoen, Taito City, Tokyo
Admission: Adults: JPY 1,000 yen
Established: 1872

Official website: https://www.tnm.jp/?lang=en

Wikipedia: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_National_Museum

Overview: Taro Okamoto is famous artists abstract and avant-garde, 1911-1996. One of his most famous works, Tower of the Sun, became the symbol of Expo ’70 in Osaka, 1970.

岡本太郎美術館

岡本太郎美術館

岡本太郎美術館

岡本太郎美術館

岡本太郎美術館

Name: Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
Place: 6-1-19, Minami-Aoyama, Minato Ku, Tokyo
Admission : JPY 650
Main exhibit.: Paintings and sculpture of Taro Okamoto,

Official website: http://www.taro-okamoto.or.jp/en/