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Akita Senshu Museum of Art

The city art museum of Akita, holding Akita Ranga painting of the late Edo period and a memorial hall for the painter Okada Kenzo.

Akita

Exhibition

Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan

Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum: every print of his three major series, from the Tokaido to the Hundred Famous Views of Edo, shown in three parts.

29 Sep – 20 Dec 2026Tokyo

Museum

Tomioka Silk Mill

A model silk mill opened by the Meiji government in 1872, its brick buildings almost all intact, with three buildings designated National Treasures.

Tomioka · Gunma

Exhibition

Hyakudan Kaidan Special Opening

A wooden building of 1935 in Meguro, Tokyo, with seven decorated banquet rooms up a staircase of 99 steps, opened for six months with almost nothing in it.

1 Oct 2026 – 30 Mar 2027Tokyo

Museum

Museum of the Meiji Restoration

A Kagoshima City museum in Kajiyacho on Satsuma at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, with robot dramas and hands-on exhibits.

Kagoshima

Exhibition

Special Exhibition: Magnificent Blade Carvings

An exhibition in Nagoya of swords carved on the blade, with dragons, deities and Sanskrit letters cut into the steel, shown in two changes of display.

1 Oct 2026 – 17 Jan 2027Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Tokugawa Art Museum

Opened in 1935, the museum holds over 10,000 works of the Owari Tokugawa family, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls.

Nagoya · Aichi

Exhibition

Ginza Goldfish Hyakka Exhibition

The last special exhibition at Art Aquarium Museum Ginza before it leaves Ginza Mitsukoshi: goldfish tanks set among autumn leaves, wisteria and cherry blossom.

2 Oct 2026 – 6 Jan 2027Tokyo

Museum

Mizuki Shigeru Museum

Museum on the life and work of manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, with a yokai cave and his original drawings on show.

Sakaiminato · Tottori

Exhibition

Pandorobo Hiroba Sapporo

An event built from the Japanese picture-book series about a bread-stealing thief, with sets to be photographed in, at Sapporo Factory in Hokkaido.

2 Oct – 23 Nov 2026Sapporo · Hokkaido

Museum

Eizo & Toichi Kato Memorial Art Museum

A museum in Gifu Park dedicated to the Nihonga painter brothers Eizo and Toichi Kato, holding about 3,500 of their drawings and 200 of their paintings.

Gifu

Exhibition

Kunisada and Kuniyoshi: Shinjuku Kabukicho Shunga Exhibition WA

Shunga and ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi at the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Stage, the fourth Kabukicho shunga show. Ages 18 and over.

3 Oct – 29 Nov 2026Tokyo

Museum

Kadokawa Culture Museum

Five-story cultural complex featuring museums, galleries, libraries, and exhibition spaces presenting both mainstream and popular culture.

Tokorozawa · Saitama

Exhibition

Sugiura Hisui and Hisui Hyakkafu

An exhibition on the designer Sugiura Hisui and Hisui Hyakkafu, his book of woodblock plant prints, with original drawings beside the finished prints.

17 Oct – 13 Dec 2026Kawagoe · Saitama

Museum

Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum

A museum of antique music boxes and automatic musical instruments by Lake Kawaguchiko, with daily concerts, a garden and a music box workshop.

Fujikawaguchiko · Yamanashi

Exhibition

"ALL OF EVANGELION" 30th Anniversary Exhibition - Osaka

The Evangelion 30th anniversary exhibition comes to Hirakata Park in Osaka, with about 270 hand-painted cels, design material and film artwork.

18 Oct 2026 – 11 Jan 2027Osaka

Museum

National Museum of Nature and Science

A national museum of natural history and science in Ueno Park, with a 1931 gallery building that is an Important Cultural Property and a floor of dinosaurs.

Tokyo

Exhibition

Elegant Old Noritake and Noritake

About 580 pieces of Old Noritake and Noritake porcelain at the Yokoyama Art Museum in Nagoya, for 150 years since the Morimura brothers founded Morimura-gumi.

23 Oct 2026 – 22 Mar 2027Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Akita Senshu Museum of Art

The city art museum of Akita, holding Akita Ranga painting of the late Edo period and a memorial hall for the painter Okada Kenzo.

Akita

Exhibition

Hiroshige: New Perspectives on Edo Japan

Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum: every print of his three major series, from the Tokaido to the Hundred Famous Views of Edo, shown in three parts.

29 Sep – 20 Dec 2026Tokyo

Museum

Tomioka Silk Mill

A model silk mill opened by the Meiji government in 1872, its brick buildings almost all intact, with three buildings designated National Treasures.

Tomioka · Gunma

Exhibition

Hyakudan Kaidan Special Opening

A wooden building of 1935 in Meguro, Tokyo, with seven decorated banquet rooms up a staircase of 99 steps, opened for six months with almost nothing in it.

1 Oct 2026 – 30 Mar 2027Tokyo

Museum

Museum of the Meiji Restoration

A Kagoshima City museum in Kajiyacho on Satsuma at the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, with robot dramas and hands-on exhibits.

Kagoshima

Exhibition

Special Exhibition: Magnificent Blade Carvings

An exhibition in Nagoya of swords carved on the blade, with dragons, deities and Sanskrit letters cut into the steel, shown in two changes of display.

1 Oct 2026 – 17 Jan 2027Nagoya · Aichi

Museum

Tokugawa Art Museum

Opened in 1935, the museum holds over 10,000 works of the Owari Tokugawa family, including nine National Treasures and the Tale of Genji Illustrated Scrolls.

Nagoya · Aichi

Exhibition

Ginza Goldfish Hyakka Exhibition

The last special exhibition at Art Aquarium Museum Ginza before it leaves Ginza Mitsukoshi: goldfish tanks set among autumn leaves, wisteria and cherry blossom.

2 Oct 2026 – 6 Jan 2027Tokyo

Museum

Mizuki Shigeru Museum

Museum on the life and work of manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, with a yokai cave and his original drawings on show.

Sakaiminato · Tottori

Exhibition

Pandorobo Hiroba Sapporo

An event built from the Japanese picture-book series about a bread-stealing thief, with sets to be photographed in, at Sapporo Factory in Hokkaido.

2 Oct – 23 Nov 2026Sapporo · Hokkaido

Museum

Eizo & Toichi Kato Memorial Art Museum

A museum in Gifu Park dedicated to the Nihonga painter brothers Eizo and Toichi Kato, holding about 3,500 of their drawings and 200 of their paintings.

Gifu

Exhibition

Kunisada and Kuniyoshi: Shinjuku Kabukicho Shunga Exhibition WA

Shunga and ukiyo-e by Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi at the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Stage, the fourth Kabukicho shunga show. Ages 18 and over.

3 Oct – 29 Nov 2026Tokyo

Museum

Kadokawa Culture Museum

Five-story cultural complex featuring museums, galleries, libraries, and exhibition spaces presenting both mainstream and popular culture.

Tokorozawa · Saitama

Exhibition

Sugiura Hisui and Hisui Hyakkafu

An exhibition on the designer Sugiura Hisui and Hisui Hyakkafu, his book of woodblock plant prints, with original drawings beside the finished prints.

17 Oct – 13 Dec 2026Kawagoe · Saitama

Museum

Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum

A museum of antique music boxes and automatic musical instruments by Lake Kawaguchiko, with daily concerts, a garden and a music box workshop.

Fujikawaguchiko · Yamanashi

Exhibition

"ALL OF EVANGELION" 30th Anniversary Exhibition - Osaka

The Evangelion 30th anniversary exhibition comes to Hirakata Park in Osaka, with about 270 hand-painted cels, design material and film artwork.

18 Oct 2026 – 11 Jan 2027Osaka

Museum

National Museum of Nature and Science

A national museum of natural history and science in Ueno Park, with a 1931 gallery building that is an Important Cultural Property and a floor of dinosaurs.

Tokyo

Exhibition

Elegant Old Noritake and Noritake

About 580 pieces of Old Noritake and Noritake porcelain at the Yokoyama Art Museum in Nagoya, for 150 years since the Morimura brothers founded Morimura-gumi.

23 Oct 2026 – 22 Mar 2027Nagoya · Aichi

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