This medium-sized Kunsthalle in the woods of Ueno Park holds the annual VOCA exhibition of ...

This uplifting museum is a cornucopia of kites, including Indonesian dried leaves, giant ...

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was famously demolished in 1968, but few ...

Daimyo feudal lords were the only people who could afford the clocks displayed here. Before ...

One of the best museums in Tokyo is run by a department-store chain (it’s owned and operated by ...

The Shoto’s rough stone exterior gives way to curved walls encircling a central fountain. It’s ...

This wooded hilltop park was once the estate of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), president of ...

With a clay drum from Mexico, an udekki from Sri Lanka and hundreds of other drums from around ...

This unusual venture was opened in 1953 by Kamegai Satoru, a doctor whose practice was ...

The Bank of Japan has two buildings, descriptively named Old and New. The New Building is where ...

The art of porcelain is the focus of this quiet museum. Its 11,000 antique Chinese and Japanese ...

If you have just one day to devote to museum-going in Tokyo and are interested in Japanese art ...

The absence of anything relating to modern crime-fighting might alarm more than reassure ...

This tree-shaded cemetery is the final resting place of such notables as John Manjiro ...

Part of the huge Palette Town development that opened in 1999, Mega Web certainly lives up to ...

This museum takes to extremes the maxim ‘learning by doing’. The unique five-spoke building, in ...

One of the many faded relics that crowd around Asakusa’s famous Sensoji, this bathhouse offers ...

A reconstruction of the Shinbashi passenger terminus, part of the first railway in Japan, which ...

Few homes of early foreign Tokyo residents have escaped the ravages of time. This one, built in ...