November is also full of annual events and limited-time exhibitions in Tokyo! Have you found a spot you want to stop by on the weekend or after work?
1,Autumn Night Stroll 2024 (October 31-December 1)
This event further accentuates the autumn foliage in Showa Kinen Park by lighting up the park at night. From November 2 to December 1, Japanese umbrellas will be available for rent in the Japanese Garden.
📍 Ginkgo Bonsai Garden, Japanese Garden, Bonsai Garden, etc.
👉Official website🚇A 10-minute walk from Higashinakagami Station to Akishima Gate near the rows of ginkgo trees in Kataraï
🎟️ Adult park entrance fee set ticket 1,500 yen (1,600 yen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
2, Hello Kitty Exhibition -When I change, Kitty changes (November 1-February 24)
An exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hello Kitty’s birth will be held at the Tokyo National Museum’s Hyokeikan. The exhibition will feature the largest number of Hello Kitty goods ever displayed at the museum. Visitors will be able to enjoy special exhibits that cannot be seen anywhere else, such as “The Beauty Looking Back” (an Important Cultural Property), “The Wind and Thunder Gods” (a folding screen), “Otani Onitsugu’s Edo Hyoue III,” and other familiar masterpieces, along with Hello Kitty.
📍 Tokyo National Museum Hyokeikan (13-9 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇Approx. 10 min. walk from Ueno Station Park Exit or Uguisudani Station South Exit.
🎟️General admission 2,000 yen (General admission 1,800 yen in advance)
3, Pokémon x Craft Exhibition -Discovery of Beauty and Craftsmanship- (November 1-February 2)
An exhibition exploring the “kagaku reaction” combining Pokémon and crafts will be held at Azabudai Hills Gallery; first held at the National Crafts Museum in Ishikawa, Japan in March 2023, it has since traveled around Japan, including to the MOA Museum of Art in Shizuoka, Japan. The Tokyo venue has been upgraded from the previous itinerant exhibition to include approximately 80 works with additional exhibits.
📍 Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza A MBF (5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku)
👉Official website🚇Kamiyacho Station Exit 5 directly connected, Roppongi-itchome Station Exit 2, 10 min. walk
🎟️ General 1,800 yen (General advance sale 1,600 yen *during the exhibition)
4, Tokyo Flea Market ’24 AUTUMN (November 1-3)
One of the largest flea markets in Tokyo, which started in 2012, will be held at the National Showa Memorial Park “Midori-no Bunka Zone Yume Hiroba” closest to Tachikawa Station. The owner of the store has an exceptional aesthetic sense and has collected old tools and goods from all over the world, beautifully bound old books, carefully crafted clothing and accessories, and, of course, food trucks. Adults and children alike are welcome to participate in the workshops.
📍 National Showa Memorial Park, Green Culture Zone, Yume Hiroba
👉Official website10 min. walk from Tachikawa Station to Yume Hiroba 🚇Midori no Bunka Zone
🎟️ Day ticket 2,000 yen (advance ticket 1,500 yen)
5, Liv Forever: Oasis 30th Anniversary Special Exhibition (November 1-23)
Special exhibition to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the debut of the British rock and roll band Oasis. Tour over 200 rare exhibits from the British Management’s collection with their timeless masterpieces. Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher are scheduled to visit Japan for a reunion tour in 2025, when they will perform on the same stage for the first time in 16 years as Oasis.
📍 Roppongi Museum (5-6-20 Roppongi, Minato-ku)
👉Official website🚇About 7 minutes walk from Roppongi station, about 10 minutes walk from Azabu-juban station.
🎟️ General admission and university students: Same-day tickets 2,700 yen (advance tickets 2,500 yen)
6, Yakimono Fest (November 1-10)
Now in its third year, this is an event where visitors can enjoy new yakimo sweets, yakimo meals, and yakimo itself in all its glory. At the Tokyo venue, 14 stores will be open, offering 38 kinds of yakimono menus. In addition, there will be a souvenir corner, original capsule toys, and a print sticker machine.
📍 Nakano Four Seasons Park Event Area (4-12-13 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 8 min. walk from Nakano Sta.
🎟️ Admission free *Food and drink not included (cashless payment only)
7, MUUSE: MUSIC MUSEUM ~Touch the sound, hear the light. The body reflects. ~ (November 1 – December 27, 2012)
A museum where visitors can immerse themselves in music with their entire body. TOKYO NODE and J-WAVE have teamed up to provide immersive music experiences ranging from classical music, pop music by YOASOBI and TM NETWORK, to music composed by AI, through expressions by top creators and cutting-edge production.
📍 Toranomon Hills Station Tower 45F TOKYO NODE GALLERY A/B/C (2-6-2 Toranomon, Minato-ku)
👉Official websiteDirectly connected to 🚇Toranomon Hills Station
🎟️ General 2,500 yen (2,800 yen on weekends and holidays)
8, Setagaya Bread Festival 2024 (November 2-3)
One of the largest bread events in Japan started in 2011 as a local event in the Mishuku area to convey and enjoy the appeal of bread. 2023 saw approximately 60,000 visitors over the two days, and more than 260 stores from all over Japan opened their stores over the two days. This year, 108 bakeries (including 23 exhibitors and 22 stores that only sell pre-ordered bread), 39 bread shops, and 28 food and beverage stores will participate in the two-day event. 271 stores will open and exhibit their products over the two days.
📍 Setagaya Park, Mishuku 420 Shotenkai, Setagaya Gaya-Gaya-Kan, Ikejiri 2-chome Gymnasium, etc.
👉Official website🚇About 18 minutes walk from Ikejiri-Ohashi station to Setagaya Park
🎟️ Admission free
9, Paris Notre Dame Cathedral Exhibition (November 6 – February 24)
A traveling exhibition will be held in Japan, allowing visitors to experience the history of Notre Dame Cathedral, a World Heritage site built about 800 years ago and considered a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, and how the cathedral is being brought back to light again through the latest technology, using the dedicated tablet device “HistoPad,” while feeling the importance of protecting cultural assets. Special contents will be added in time for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral to the public in December 2024.
📍 Miraikan 1st Floor, Special Exhibition Zone a (2-3-6 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 5 minutes walk from Tokyo International Cruise Terminal Station, about 4 minutes walk from Telecom Center Station, about 15 minutes walk from Tokyo Teleport Station
🎟️ Adults 1,800 yen (advance tickets 1,600 yen)
10, Hogwarts in the Snow (November 9 – January 5)
Hogwarts in the Snow, a special seasonal event, will be held in Japan for the first time. Eight five-meter tall Christmas trees will be decorated with ornaments made using the same techniques used in the filming of the first film series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”.
📍 Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo (1-1-7 Kasuga-cho, Nerima-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 2 min. walk from Toshimaen Sta.
🎟️ Adult 6,500 yen
11, Fiesta de España 2024 (November 16-January 17)
One of the largest Spanish festivals in Japan, where you can enjoy various flamenco performances throughout the venue. Powerful stages will be set up by three associations that work to introduce Spanish culture to Japan: flamenco, zarzuela, and Spanish guitar. There will also be beers representing Spain, a wide variety of wines from all over Spain, and paella cooked in a large pot that can serve 400 people at one time.
📍 Yoyogi Park Event Plaza (2-3 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official websiteApproximately 9 minutes walk from 🚇Harajuku Station
12, Space Travelium (opening November 22)
A new space experience facility that offers entertainment that allows visitors to experience space travel of the future and also serves as a space-themed education and exchange center has opened in Tokyo Dome City. In a space based on the motif of a “spaceport,” a place where many people and things gather and interact, the facility will offer a variety of space-related experiences, including exhibitions and VR to tickle intellectual curiosity, galleries and classrooms to enjoy art and learning, and cafes and stores.
📍 Tokyo Dome City “Yellow Building” 6th floor (1-3-61 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 9 minutes walk from Korakuen Station, about 6 minutes walk from Suidobashi Station
🎟️ General 2,500 yen
13, How Do You Live Exhibition Part 3 “Background Art” (November 23 – May scheduled)
The third part of the special exhibition, “Background Art,” is a three-part exhibition of the hand-drawn pictures created for the animated feature film “How Do You Live? In this exhibition, visitors can see up close the crystallization of the skill and artistry of the film, which was drawn by a relatively small number of art staff.
📍 In the West Garden of Inokashira Onshi Park (1-1-83, Shimorenjaku 1-chome, Mitaka City)
👉Official website🚇About 15 min. walk from Mitaka Station
🎟️ Adults 1,000 yen
14, Reopening Commemoration “Absence” – Toulouse-Lautrec and Sophie Calle (November 23 – January 26)
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, which has been closed for facility maintenance since April 2023, will reopen on November 23. The first exhibition of the reopening, “In Commemoration of the Reopening: ‘Absence’ – Toulouse-Lautrec and Sophie Calle,” will once again display works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), who is at the core of the museum’s collection and exhibition activities. By inviting Sophie Calle and collaborating with her, we aim to incorporate new perspectives into the museum’s activities and to link them to future development.
📍 Mitsubishi Ichigokan Art Museum (2-6-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official Website🚇About 5 minutes walk from Tokyo Station, about 6 minutes walk from Yurakucho Station
🎟️ General 2,300 yen
15, 14th Tokyo Art Book Fair (November 28-December 1)
Launched in 2009, this is the largest art book fair in Asia, bringing together artists and publishers of art books, catalogs, artist books, zines, and other publications. Each year, approximately 350 domestic and international publishers, galleries, and artists exhibit at the fair, which attracts more than 20,000 visitors. In addition to booths decorated with attractive publications created by artists and publishers who continue to engage in progressive bookmaking, the fair also features special exhibitions, talks, screenings, and a variety of other events.
📍 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo)
👉Official website🚇About 9 minutes walk from Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station
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