We introduce 10 recommended galleries in Tokyo, focusing on galleries located in areas such as Ginza and Roppongi, which you may want to visit while shopping or dining.
1, Azabudai Hills Gallery
The Azabudai Hills Gallery is the cultural hub of Azabudai Hills, where the theme is “The whole town is a museum. The gallery offers a wide range of cultural and artistic genres. The gallery regularly offers gallery tours led by professional staff.
📍 Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza A MBF, 5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku
👉Official website🚇Direct access from the basement floor of Kamiyacho Station Exit 5 on the Hibiya Line
🎟️Depends on the exhibition being held
2, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo
Designed by Jun Aoki, who has worked on numerous architectural projects for museums and commercial facilities in Japan and abroad, this gallery on the 7th floor of the Louis Vuitton Omotesando building is a unique space with a glass wall that offers a view of the Omotesando skyline. The glass-walled space offers a panoramic view of Omotesando. The gallery regularly holds special exhibitions of contemporary art.
📍 Louis Vuitton Omotesando Building 7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
👉Official website🚇About 4 minutes walk from Omotesando Station Exit A1
🎟️ free
3, gallery UG Tennoz
Since its establishment in Ginza in 2001, the gallery moved to Nihonbashi Bakurocho in 2011, and began full-scale overseas expansion of primary artists. In September 2020, UG Tennoz opened a new flagship gallery on the second floor of TERRADA ART COMPLEX II in Tennoz, and has been actively promoting its artists to the world through group and solo exhibitions at overseas art fairs and affiliated galleries, The gallery is open year-round for dynamic solo and special exhibitions.
📍 TERRADA ART COMPLEX II 2F, 1-32-8 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku
👉Official websiteApproximately 8 minutes walk from Tennozu Isle Station Exit B on the 🚇 Line
🎟️ free
4, ginza graphic gallery
Known as “ggg,” this gallery specializing in graphic design was established in 1986 by Dai Nippon Printing, a company with close ties to graphic design, as part of its cultural activities in Ginza, where the company was founded and is a mecca for galleries. The gallery holds about eight special exhibitions and lectures a year.
📍 DNP Ginza Bldg. 1F, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku
👉Official site🚇About 5 minutes walk from Ginza station
🎟️ free
5, Complex 665
If you are planning to visit galleries in Roppongi, where many museums and galleries are concentrated, this is the building you want to visit. The internationally acclaimed contemporary art galleries Tomio Koyama Gallery, ShugoArts, and Taka Ishii Gallery, which have exhibited at many of the world’s most prestigious art fairs, are located here.
📍 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Official Site🚇About 5 minutes walk from Roppongi station
🎟️ free
6, Shiseido Gallery
Opened in 1919, this is the oldest existing art gallery in Japan. With a ceiling height of over 5 meters, the space is more like a museum than a typical gallery. Since the 1990s, the gallery has focused on contemporary art, introducing the avant-garde and pure expressions of the same era.
📍 Tokyo Ginza Shiseido B1F, 8-8-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
👉Official website🚇About 4 minutes walk from Exit A2 of Ginza Station, about 4 minutes walk from Exit 1 of Shinbashi Station
🎟️ free
7, Sky The Bath House
A gallery space specializing in contemporary art that was renovated from Kashiwa-yu, a historic public bathhouse with a 200-year history in Yanaka, Taito-ku, one of Tokyo’s oldest neighborhoods. It has solidified the reputation of many leading artists such as Lee Ufan, Toshikatsu Endo, and Mariko Mori, and at the same time, it is presenting next-generation artists such as Kohei Nawa and Reijiro Wada to the world.
📍 6-1-23 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo Ruins of Kashiwa-yu
👉Official SiteAbout 6 minutes walk from 🚇Nippori station
🎟️ free
8,Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Tokyo
A gallery presenting the creativity of diverse people through the introduction of various works including Art Brut (art by people who have not received professional art education and others whose original ideas and methods of expression are noteworthy). In the exchange space, events that encourage interaction such as workshops, talk events, and live concerts are held, and the space can also be used as a reading space for related books.
📍 Shibuya Ward Kinro Fukushi Kaikan 1F, 1-19-8 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
👉Official website🚇About 5 min. walk from Exit B1 of Shibuya Sta.
🎟️ free
9, Piramide
This building houses 10 galleries, including Perrotin, Kotaro Nukaga, and London Gallery, which, like Complex 665, have galleries in Japan and abroad. In July 2024, “Perrotin Salon Tokyo” will also open, offering artists, collectors, art professionals, international visitors, and local creators an opportunity to deepen their relationships in a relaxed and private setting.
📍 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku
👉Official website🚇About 3 minutes walk from Roppongi station
🎟️ free
10, Forum
An art gallery on the 8th floor of Ginza Maison Hermes, run by the Hermes Foundation, featuring works by contemporary artists from Japan and abroad, which change every three months or so; the 10th floor houses Le Studio, a mini-theater that can be reserved.
📍 5-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
👉Official website🚇Directly connected to Ginza Station, Exit B7
🎟️ free