
From Setsubun events perfect for this time of year to special exhibitions, here are the events you should not miss this weekend!
1, Hanami Glasse Afternoon Tea (January 15-February 28)
This limited-time afternoon tea is a collaboration between the Japanese makeup artist brand Shu Uemura and Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo. Inspired by the “Hanami Glace Collection,” the perfect makeup for spring inspired by lush fruits and cheek-watering sweet treats, the afternoon tea expresses a sweet and pure world where the arrival of spring is already in full swing and can be enjoyed by both cosmetics and sweets lovers.
📍 Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo District Brasserie Bar Lounge (2F Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo, 3-4-7 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
🚇 12 min walk from South Exit of JR Shinjuku Station, 8 min walk from Exit A4 of Tochomae Station on Toei Oedo Line
🎟️: Standard Plan 7,000 yen and up
2, Special Exhibition “Former Saga Palace, Daikakuji Temple – New Currents: Paintings Related to the Palace” (January 21-March 16)
Saga, located in the northwest of Kyoto, has long been a favorite tourist destination for royal court nobles. Prior to the 1,150th anniversary of the temple’s founding in 2026, a number of outstanding temple treasures will be introduced at the Tokyo National Museum. On display are calligraphic works by emperors that tell the story of the temple’s history of faith and masterpieces representing Buddhist statues from the late Heian period, including paintings on the walls designated as Important Cultural Properties that decorate the interior of the Shinden and Shoshunden buildings located in the center of the temple.
📍 Tokyo National Museum Heiseikan (Ueno Park)
🚇 10 min. walk from JR Ueno Station Park Exit or Uguisudani Station South Exit, 15 min. walk from Tokyo Metro Ginza Line/Hibiya Line Ueno Station or Chiyoda Line Nezu Station
🎟️ Adults 2100 yen (advance purchase 1900 yen)
3, 120th Anniversary of Ayako Miyawaki’s Art: Sighted, Cut, Pasted (January 25 – March 16)

An exhibition will be held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Ayako Miyawaki, an artist who created beautiful and accessible works on cloth and paper, including applique, collage, and handicrafts, using everyday objects as subjects. This exhibition considers Ayako Miyawaki as an outstanding figurative artist, and categorizes and arranges her approximately 150 works and materials into eight chapters based on their figurative characteristics.
📍 Tokyo Station Gallery (In front of the Marunouchi North Exit ticket gates, JR Tokyo Station, 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
🚇 In front of the Marunouchi North Exit ticket gate of JR Tokyo Station, 3 minutes walk from Tokyo Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
🎟️: General 1,300 yen (advance sale 1,100 yen)
4, Brooklyn Museum Collection Special Exhibition: Ancient Egypt (January 25-April 6)
The Brooklyn Museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts will be on display in Roppongi, Tokyo. Through approximately 150 artifacts, including sculptures, coffins, jewelry, earthenware, papyrus, and human and feline mummies, visitors will learn about the activities of people who created a culture more advanced than we can imagine. The exhibition introduces facts that have been overlooked in previous exhibitions on Egypt, as well as the results of research on the pyramids using the latest technology, with video and audio.
📍 Mori Arts Center Gallery (52F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
🚇 Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line “Roppongi” station, Exit 1C, 3 min. walk (directly connected by concourse)
🎟️: General/University/Vocational students 2500 yen (advance sale 2300 yen)~
5, Special Exhibition: Landscape with Flower Vases (January 25-March 16)

This exhibition introduces Japanese and Chinese art works with a focus on vases for flower arrangements. Paintings depicting vases and vases prized in the tea ceremony will be on display from the Sumitomo Collection at the Izumiya Hakkokan. Also on display will be vases from the Ogo Rimei Collection, which commemorates a gift, as well as gorgeous and festive paintings by artists from Tsubaki Tsubakiyama to Umehara Ryuzaburo.
📍 Izumiya Hakkokan Tokyo (1-5-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
🚇 3 min. walk from Roppongi 1-chome Station on Tokyo Metro Namboku Line
🎟️: General/University/Vocational students 2500 yen (advance sale 2300 yen)~
6, “Hoxai: Another Story” (February 1-June 1)
An immersive art experience of the life and works of Hokusai Katsushika, an ukiyoe artist active in the Edo period, will be held at Tokyu Plaza Shibuya, Tokyo, using advanced technology. Visitors can experience Hokusai’s masterpiece “Kanagawa Okinamiura” and other works with an overwhelming sense of immersion in a next-generation immersive space that combines “image x sound x sense of touch.
📍 Tokyu Plaza Shibuya 3rd floor
🚇 Directly connected to “Shibuya Fukuras Pedestrian Deck”, a connecting passageway at the west exit of Shibuya Station on JR lines
🎟️ General ¥3,500~
7, Tokyo Kaikan [Valentine’s Day Limited] Chocolat Sweets (February 1 – February 14)

Limited-edition sweets only for this Valentine’s Day season will be available at the Tokyo Kaikan Hondan Pastry Shop “Sweets & Gifts” from February 1! Don’t miss the handmade chocolates by Tokyo Kaikan’s award-winning chocolatier, and the “Reward Paris-Brest Strawberry,” a limited-time-only sweet decorated more gorgeously for Valentine’s Day, perfect for a treat for yourself.
📍 Tokyo Kaikan Honkan
🚇3-minute walk from Exit 6 of Tokyo Station on the JR Keiyo Line, directly connected to the underground concourse of Nijubashimae <Marunouchi> Station, Yurakucho Station, and Hibiya Station B5 exit on the subway.
🎟️ Reward Paris-Brest from 1,296 yen
8, Toyohara Kunishu Retrospective Exhibition in commemoration of the 190th anniversary of his birth (February 1 – March 26, 2010)

A retrospective exhibition commemorating the 190th anniversary of the birth of Toyohara Kunishu, an ukiyoe artist active from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era, will be held at the Ota Memorial Museum of Art. This is one of the largest retrospective exhibitions ever held of Kunishu, who reigned as the leading artist of yakusha-e (portrayals of actors) with his powerful paintings of actors, and also gained popularity for his delicate paintings of beautiful women. The exhibition will feature not only representative actor paintings, but also works from a variety of genres and eras, all of which have been selected without bias, allowing viewers to see a new image of Kunishu.
📍 Ota Memorial Museum of Art
🚇 JR Yamanote Line: 5 min. walk from Omotesando Exit of Harajuku Station, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line / Fukutoshin Line: 3 min. walk from Exit 5 of Meiji-jingumae Station
🎟️ Adults 1200 yen, College and High School Students 800 yen and up
9, Strawberry & Love Bunny Afternoon Tea Buffet (February 1 – March 31)

The Grand Hyatt Tokyo is holding an afternoon tea buffet perfect for the Valentine’s Day and White Day season, where you can enjoy to your heart’s content strawberry sweets studded with “bunny” motifs that are said to bring up your luck in love. Wishing for good luck in love, you can enjoy a wide variety of visually adorable ripe strawberry sweets, such as strawberry shortcake decorated with chocolate “bunny ears”.
📍 Grand Hyatt Tokyo
Grand Hyatt Tokyo 👉 Official Website
3-minute walk from Exit 1C of Roppongi Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, 6-minute walk from Exit 3 of Roppongi Station on the Toei Subway Oedo Line
🎟️ ¥7,150 / ¥8,800 with a glass of champagne
10, “Country Ma’am Chocolate Covered Bath” collaboration between Hakone Kowakuen Unessan and Fujiya (February 1-April 6)
Hakone Kowakuen Unessan, an all-weather hot spring amusement park where visitors can play in swimsuits, has held a “Chocolate Bath” every Valentine’s Day season. Why don’t you relax and become “covered in chocolate, both body and soul” in a bath inspired by the “Choco Swamp” where the product’s popular character “Mamire-san” lives?
📍 Hakone Kowakuen Unessan
Official website🚇 Take the Hakone Tozan Bus or Izu Hakone Bus from Hakone-Yumoto Station to “Kowakuen
🎟️ Regular price: Adults 2,500 yen, Children 1,400 yen
11, Exhibition “Yuimanakazato Exhibition -Does the Desert Tell the Story of the Universe and Giant Catfish in Clothing” (February 3-February 16)
The exhibition of Yuima Nakazato, the only Japanese brand established in 2009 and presenting at Haute Couture Week in Paris since 2016, will be held at Tokyo City View in Roppongi Hills, centering on “Idomeneo,” the culmination of 15 years of activity, from which the 2024 Spring/Summer The exhibition will consist of two parts: “UTAKATA,” the collection that culminated 15 years of Idomeneo activities, and “UNVEIL,” the fall/winter 2024 collection, both of which were derived from “UTAKATA,” and “FADE,” the spring/summer 2025 collection.
📍 Tokyo City View (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 52F)
👉 Official website, Tokyo City View official website
🚇 Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line “Roppongi Station” Exit 1C, 3 min. walk (directly connected by concourse)
🎟️ General 2,200 yen (advance sale 2,000 yen)
12, Yokohama Strawberry Festival (February 6 – March 2)
The theme of this year’s festival, the 12th, is “meet! We hope that various encounters will be made through “strawberries”, such as “strawberries from all over Japan”, “stores and producers”, and “various ways to enjoy strawberries”. The event is designed to encourage various encounters through ” strawberries” such as ” strawberries from all over Japan “, “stores and producers”, and “various ways to enjoy strawberries”. The event is a dreamlike space “full of strawberries,” including a giant strawberry objet d’art about 2 meters high to be “Instagram-worthy” and cute “strawberry sweets” that you will want to capture on your camera. You can enjoy a dreamlike space “full of strawberries.
📍 Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse Event Plaza
👉Official site🚇 Approx. 15 min. walk from JR or municipal subway “Sakuragi-cho” station via Kishamichi, approx. 6 min. walk from “Bashamichi” or “Nihon-odori” station on Minatomirai Line
🎟️ Admission 500 yen (not including food, drink, sales, and workshop fee)
13, Special Exhibition “120th Anniversary of Salvador Dali: The Secret of His Genius” (February 8 – April 6)

A special exhibition will be held at the Yokosuka Museum of Art to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Salvador Dali’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto. The exhibition focuses on Dali’s life and activities, centering on the collection of the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, which forms one of the best Dali collections in the world. While exploring the complex and delicate inner life of “Surrealist Dali,” who fascinated the audience, and the “human Dali” behind it, about 120 works by Surrealist artists such as Miro and Magritte will be exhibited.
📍 Yokosuka Art Museum
🚇 2 min. walk from Keikyu Bus “La Vista Kannonzaki Terrace, Yokosuka Art Museum Mae” or 5 min. walk from “Kannonzaki
🎟️ General ¥1,400~
14, Exhibition “Heretical Genius–Beardsley” (February 15-May 11)
Aubrey Beardsley, an English printmaker active at the end of the 19th century,was called a genius who left this world at the young age of 25, and continued to paint extremely sophisticated works with exquisite line drawings and bold black and white color surfaces by candlelight. This joint project with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) traces the history of Beardsley, who caused a stir in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century, and will exhibit approximately 220 works.
📍 Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
🚇 5 min. walk from JR “Tokyo” station (Marunouchi South Exit), 3 min. walk from Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line “Nijubashimae [Marunouchi]” station (Exit 1)
🎟️ General 2,300 yen (advance sale 2,100 yen)
15, Exhibition “120 years after his death: Emile Gallé: Longing for Paris” (February 15-April 13)

An exhibition of Emile Gallé, a leading Art Nouveau craftsman, will be held at the Suntory Museum of Art. Commemorating the 120th anniversary of Galle’s death, the exhibition focuses on his relationship with Paris, where he established his position, and reflects on the development of his creativity. Through a total of 110 items, including glass, ceramics, furniture, and documents in Galle’s own handwriting, visitors will be able to experience Galle’s rich artistic world from his youth to his final years.
📍 Suntory Museum of Art
Suntory Museum of Art 👉 Official Site
🚇 Direct connection from Exit 8 of Roppongi Station on Toei Subway Oedo Line, Direct connection from Roppongi Station on Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line via underground passage
🎟️ General 1,700 yen (advance sale 1,500 yen)