[Autumn/Winter 2026] 20 Recommended Exhibitions in Tokyo: The Louvre, Turner, the Orsay, Ukiyo-e and Shojo Manga

From autumn 2026 to spring 2027, major exhibitions drawn from the collections of overseas museums overlap in Tokyo. “The Louvre Museum Exhibition: Renaissance” at the National Art Center, Tokyo runs until December 13. Tate’s Turner exhibition opens at the National Museum of Western Art on October 24, and the Musée d’Orsay exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum on November 14. This article introduces 20 exhibitions in Tokyo that are on view as of October 19 or open by March 2027, with their dates and prices.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum opened in Ueno in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum, funded by a donation from the coal merchant Keitaro Sato. As part of its 100th anniversary program, the free exhibition “Opening Beginnings: 100 Years of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum” also opens on Thursday, November 19.

In ukiyo-e, the Tokyo National Museum is showing all prints of Hiroshige’s three great series in three periods. The Ota Memorial Museum of Art is showing Katsushika Oi’s “Night Scene in the Yoshiwara” for the first time in three years. “Suikoden” at the Tokyo Station Gallery shows all 74 sheets of Kuniyoshi’s “One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden.” A guide to viewing is in our introduction to enjoying ukiyo-e.

Western art: exhibitions from the collections of the Louvre, Tate and the Orsay overlap

The Louvre Museum Exhibition: Renaissance (The National Art Center, Tokyo)

The Louvre exhibition consists of just over 50 works from the museum. It is organized around four themes drawn from Leonardo: “Journey,” “Innovation and Refinement of Technique,” “A Gaze Toward Antiquity” and “The Flourishing of Portraiture.” According to the official page, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Portrait of a Woman” (known as “La Belle Ferronnière”) is being shown in Japan for the first time. From Monday, December 7 to Sunday, December 13, entry is by timed ticket only, and advance and same-day tickets cannot be used.

Dates: Wednesday, September 9 – Sunday, December 13, 2026
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 1E
Admission: Adults 2,400 yen, university students 1,400 yen, high school students 1,000 yen (same day). From December 7, a timed ticket at the same price is required

Tate Turner: Painting the Sublime, a Dialogue with Contemporary Art (National Museum of Western Art)

The Turner exhibition consists of more than 80 works from the Tate collection, including oil paintings and watercolors. Turner works such as “The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons” are shown chapter by chapter alongside postwar and contemporary works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson.

Dates: Saturday, October 24, 2026 – Sunday, February 21, 2027
Venue: National Museum of Western Art, Special Exhibition Galleries
Admission: Adults 2,400 yen, university students 1,500 yen, high school students 1,100 yen (same day)

100th Anniversary of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum — What a Wonderful World: Masterworks from the Musée d’Orsay (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum)

The Orsay exhibition presents about 110 paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, photographs and other works in seven parts. According to the museum, Millet’s “The Gleaners” is coming to Japan for the first time in 23 years, and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and Gauguin’s “Arearea” for the first time in 16 years.

Dates: Saturday, November 14, 2026 – Sunday, March 28, 2027
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Special Exhibition Gallery
Admission: Adults 2,400 yen, university and vocational school students 1,300 yen, 65 and over 1,600 yen (advance tickets 200 yen off each, until November 13)

Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition: European Treasures That Crossed to America (The Ueno Royal Museum)

The official website lists names such as Corot, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso. The catchphrase is “Van Gogh’s masterpiece from his final years comes to Japan.” On weekdays until Saturday, October 31, admission is free for university students and younger (proof required), and timed-entry reservations are not required.

Dates: Saturday, October 10, 2026 – Sunday, January 10, 2027
Venue: The Ueno Royal Museum
Admission: Adults 2,400 yen, high school, vocational school and university students 1,500 yen, elementary and junior high school students 800 yen

50th Anniversary of the Museum: Albert Marquet (SOMPO Museum of Art)

The exhibition is billed as “the first full-scale solo exhibition in Japan in 35 years.” About 90 works, including “Naples, Sailing Boat” from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, are shown, and about 25 drawings are rotated during the exhibition (the second half started November 3). The museum’s own Van Gogh “Sunflowers” can also be seen.

Dates: Tuesday, September 22 – Sunday, December 13, 2026
Venue: SOMPO Museum of Art
Admission: Adults (26 and over) 2,000 yen, 25 and under 1,200 yen. Free for elementary, junior high and high school students

Fontanesi: Light of Italy, Landscapes of the Heart (Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo)

Antonio Fontanesi (1818–1882) was invited to Japan in 1876 as a painting teacher at the Technical Fine Arts School, and his students included Chu Asai. According to the special website, this is the first major retrospective in Japan, tracing his career from his early to his late years with about 200 works. It commemorates the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Italy and the 150th anniversary of Fontanesi’s arrival in Japan.

Dates: Saturday, October 17, 2026 – Sunday, January 24, 2027
Venue: Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo
Admission: Adults 2,300 yen, university students 1,300 yen, high school students 1,000 yen

Japanese art and ukiyo-e: from Hiroshige and Oi to Daitokuji and The Tale of Genji

Utagawa Hiroshige: The Best Angles of Edo (Tokyo National Museum)

The Hiroshige exhibition commemorates the donation of 1,025 ukiyo-e prints formerly in the collection of Susumu Uchiyama (1893–1980) and is, according to the museum, “the Tokyo National Museum’s first full-scale Hiroshige exhibition.” All prints of the three great series, “Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido,” “Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido” and “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” are shown over three periods, with all works changed in each period. A value set of three tickets (3,600 yen, advance and online only), which can be freely combined across the three periods, is also available.

Dates: Tuesday, September 29 – Sunday, December 20, 2026 (period 2 from Tuesday, October 27; period 3 from Wednesday, November 25)
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Honkan Room A
Admission: Adults 1,500 yen (advance 1,300 yen), university students 500 yen. Free for high school students and younger, those under 18 and those 70 and over

Katsushika Oi’s Night Scene in the Yoshiwara and the Lineage of Night Scenes (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)

Hokusai’s daughter Oi’s “Night Scene in the Yoshiwara” is shown for the first time in three years. The museum states that only “a little over ten” paintings by Oi’s hand “have been confirmed worldwide.” The work is shown throughout the exhibition, while the night scenes by Hiroshige, Kiyochika Kobayashi and others are all changed between the first period (until November 3) and the second period (from November 7). The museum is closed in between, from November 4 to 6, and payment is cash only. Museums around Harajuku and Omotesando, where the Ota Memorial Museum of Art is located, are summarized in our Omotesando, Aoyama and Harajuku art guide.

Dates: Tuesday, October 6 – Sunday, December 6, 2026
Venue: Ota Memorial Museum of Art
Admission: Adults 1,200 yen, university and high school students 800 yen, junior high school students (age 15) and younger free

[Ended] Suikoden (Tokyo Station Gallery) *Ended November 8

Seventy-four sheets of Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s “One of the 108 Heroes of the Popular Suikoden” are currently known, and the exhibition shows all of them. Zhao Zhe’s “Along the River During the Qingming Festival,” an Important Cultural Property, and Kazuo Shiraga’s “Tenkaisei Kohogi” are also shown. The exhibition is organized in five chapters, extending to original drawings by Takao Saito and costumes from the drama series “Kenzo Kitakata’s Suikoden.” Museums around Tokyo Station are introduced in our Marunouchi, Kyobashi and Nihonbashi art guide.

Dates: Saturday, September 19 – Sunday, November 8, 2026
Venue: Tokyo Station Gallery
Admission: Adults 1,600 yen, high school and university students 1,100 yen. Free for junior high school students and younger

[Ended] Special Viewing of the Denboin Garden (Place of Scenic Beauty) and the Emado at Senso-ji (Senso-ji) *Ended November 3

About 50 large votive paintings kept in Senso-ji’s Emado were on view for just five days, until Tuesday, November 3 (national holiday). Painted by artists including Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Hasegawa Settan and Hemmi (Kano) Kazunobu, they are shown together with the original “Senso-ji Kanbun Engi Scroll,” painted by Kano Ujinobu in 1662 (Kanbun 2). The Denboin Garden, a Place of Scenic Beauty normally closed to the public, features a sea-of-clouds effect and the evening Kinryu Yakai, and at night visitors can also see projection mapping on the Main Hall and Hozomon Gate based on the votive paintings and the Kanbun Engi (free to view). Details are in our article on the special viewing of the Denboin Garden and Emado and our article on the Senso-ji projection mapping.

Dates: Friday, October 30 – Tuesday, November 3 (national holiday), 2026
Venue: Senso-ji Emado and Denboin Garden (9:00–21:00; Emado until 16:00)
Admission: Adults (high school and older) 2,500 yen on the day, elementary and junior high school students 1,000 yen on the day (valid day and night, date-specific)

700th Anniversary of the Founding, Special Exhibition “Daitokuji: Japan’s Unrivaled Zen Temple” (Tokyo National Museum)

Centered on the National Treasure Oido tea bowl named Kizaemon Ido (Kohoan, Kyoto), the temple treasures of the precinct, including those of its sub-temples and temples of the Daitokuji school, are shown together. According to the museum, it is “the first time in 41 years” that these masterpieces, normally closed to the public, have been brought together, and the first time in Tokyo. With a ticket to either the Daitokuji exhibition or the Hiroshige exhibition, you can also see the Tokyo National Museum’s collection exhibitions on the day of your visit.

Dates: Wednesday, October 14 – Sunday, December 6, 2026
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Heiseikan Special Exhibition Galleries
Admission: Adults 2,300 yen, university students 1,300 yen, high school students 900 yen. Free for junior high school students and younger

Takehisa Yumeji—An Artist Who Defined His Era (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)

With about 500 works and materials, the exhibition traces Takehisa Yumeji’s expression and design in five chapters. “Kurofuneya” (1919, Takehisa Yumeji Ikaho Memorial Museum) is said to be “shown in Tokyo for the first time in about 40 years.” The first period runs until November 23 and the second from November 25. From 2027, the exhibition travels to the Shizuoka City Museum of Art, the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design and the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka.

Dates: Friday, October 23, 2026 – Monday, January 11, 2027 (national holiday)
Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (1F Special Exhibition Gallery)
Admission: Adults 2,100 yen, university students 1,200 yen, high school students 700 yen. Free for junior high school students and younger

Edo-Tokyo Museum Reopening Special Exhibition “Maruyama Okyo: Beyond the Real, a Spatial Revolution” (Edo-Tokyo Museum)

Works such as Daijoji Temple’s Important Cultural Properties “Pine Tree and Peacocks” (1795, shown throughout) and “Guo Ziyi” are on display. The works are changed between the first period (until December 24) and the second period (from January 2), and advance reservations are not required. From February 6, 2027, the exhibition travels to the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. Routes combining the nearby Sumida Hokusai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo are summarized in our Ryogoku and Kiyosumi-Shirakawa art guide.

Dates: Saturday, November 28, 2026 – Sunday, January 24, 2027
Venue: Edo-Tokyo Museum (1F Special Exhibition Gallery)
Admission: Special exhibition ticket: adults 2,100 yen (advance 1,900 yen), 65 and over 1,600 yen, university and vocational school students 1,300 yen. Free for elementary, junior high and high school students

Special Exhibition “The Tale of Genji: The Radiance of the Court” (Tokyo National Museum)

The Tale of Genji exhibition, held at the Kyoto National Museum until November 29, travels to Tokyo. The museum’s page features the National Treasure “Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji, Kashiwagi III” (Tokugawa Art Museum, Aichi). In addition to paintings, decorative arts, manuscripts and commentaries, the exhibition brings together materials related to the performing arts and popular culture.

Dates: Tuesday, January 19 – Sunday, March 14, 2027
Venue: Tokyo National Museum, Heiseikan
Admission: Adults 2,400 yen (advance 2,200 yen), university students 1,300 yen, high school students 900 yen. Free for junior high school students and younger

Modern and contemporary art and photography: Mariko Mori, Hikaru Fujii, Minami Tada and more

Mariko Mori: All That Shines (Mori Art Museum)

About 40 works from more than 30 years of activity are presented. According to the Mori Art Museum, it is her first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan in 24 years, since “Mariko Mori: Pure Land” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2002. Places inside the pod of “Wave UFO” (1999–2002), which uses a brain-wave interface, are limited. On the opening day, October 31, the museum stays open until 6:00 the next morning to coincide with Roppongi Art Night.

Dates: Saturday, October 31, 2026 – Sunday, March 28, 2027
Venue: Mori Art Museum (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 53F)
Admission: Adults: weekdays 2,800 yen, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 3,000 yen (200 yen off each online)

Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Hikaru Fujii, WHOSE LIGHT? (Artizon Museum)

The seventh in the series. Taking the “allegory of the cave” in Plato’s Republic as a starting point, it asks not what light illuminates but who is shining that light. Twenty-two works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, such as Pollock’s “Number 2, 1951,” are shown alongside a dozen or so works by Hikaru Fujii, including new works. With the same ticket, you can also see “Étrangers: European Experiences of Western-Style Painters,” featuring more than 100 works made in Europe.

Dates: Saturday, October 24, 2026 – Sunday, January 31, 2027
Venue: Artizon Museum (6F galleries)
Admission: Adults: online reservation 1,200 yen, at the counter 1,500 yen. Free for university, vocational school and high school students (online reservation required)

Tada Minami—Still, shimmering light (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

Minami Tada (1924–2014) created works such as the light wall “Reimei” (Dawn, 1970) at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. According to the museum, this is “the first large-scale retrospective since her death.” About 70 works, including paintings, sculptures and lighting works, are shown, and “Chaindelier” (1963) has been re-created at full scale for the exhibition. On Fridays in November the museum is open until 20:00, with a 20% discount after 17:00.

Dates: Saturday, August 29 – Sunday, December 6, 2026
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Exhibition Gallery B2F)
Admission: Adults 1,600 yen, university and vocational school students and 65 and over 1,100 yen, junior high and high school students 640 yen

Synchronic Constellation: Stars That Shared Their Time, Gazes of Art Across Borders (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

Starting from a film about the Le Moulin Poetry Society, a Taiwanese modernist poetry group of the 1930s, the exhibition reexamines modern art in Taiwan and Japan. About 200 works of modern Taiwanese art and about 500 documents, together with about 100 Japanese works, are organized in six chapters. The guest curator is film director Huang Ya-li.

Dates: Saturday, September 5 – Sunday, December 13, 2026
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Exhibition Galleries 1F and 3F)
Admission: Adults 2,000 yen, university and vocational school students and 65 and over 1,400 yen, junior high and high school students 800 yen

Reassembling: New Japanese Photography vol. 23 (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)

The five participating artists are Sayuri Ichida, Taro Karibe, Zai Nomura, Baku Hashimoto and Asako Fujikura. The exhibition focuses on “what is visible” and “what is invisible” in photography and video, and on the wavering boundary between existence and fiction. It shows how the artists assemble memory, materials, techniques and contexts to create new images. On Thursdays and Fridays from Thursday, November 5 to Friday, November 27, the museum stays open until 20:00 for special evening hours.

Dates: Wednesday, September 30, 2026 – Sunday, January 17, 2027
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (3F Gallery)
Admission: Adults 700 yen, students 560 yen, high school students and 65 and over 350 yen. Free for junior high school students and younger

Design and manga: the Marimekko exhibition and original shojo manga drawings

Marimekko: The Power of Pattern (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum)

More than 60 dresses and print designs such as Maija Isola’s “Unikko” (1964) are shown in the Main Building and the Annex. The museum lists “the former Prince Asaka Residence, where patterns resonate” as one of the highlights. A video installation by plaplax and a new installation by Akira Minagawa are also on display.

Dates: Saturday, October 3 – Sunday, December 20, 2026
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (Main Building + Annex)
Admission: Adults 1,400 yen, university students 1,120 yen, high school students and 65 and over 700 yen (timed-entry reservation required). Free for junior high school students and younger

Shojo Manga Infinity: Moto Hagio × Ryoko Yamagishi × Waki Yamato (The National Art Center, Tokyo)

The exhibition of the three artists is, according to the museum, “the first large-scale shojo manga exhibition held at a national art museum,” and commemorates the museum’s 20th anniversary. Original drawings for works such as Moto Hagio’s “The Poe Clan,” Ryoko Yamagishi’s “Emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun” and Waki Yamato’s “Haikara-san ga Toru” are on display. More than 800 works in black and white and color are planned, and color works are rotated between the first period (until December 14) and the second period (from December 16).

Dates: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 – Monday, February 8, 2027
Venue: The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 2E
Admission: Adults 2,200 yen, university students 1,000 yen, high school students 500 yen (same day; advance tickets 200 yen off each until October 27). Free for junior high school students and younger

Check by closing date

Exhibitions closing in 2026
Sunday, November 8: Suikoden (Tokyo Station Gallery)
Sunday, December 6: Minami Tada (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo) / Katsushika Oi (Ota Memorial Museum of Art) / Daitokuji (Tokyo National Museum)
Sunday, December 13: The Louvre Museum Exhibition (The National Art Center, Tokyo) / Albert Marquet (SOMPO Museum of Art) / Synchronic Constellation (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
Sunday, December 20: Hiroshige (Tokyo National Museum) / Marimekko (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum)

Exhibitions closing in 2027
Sunday, January 10: Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition (The Ueno Royal Museum)
Monday, January 11 (national holiday): Takehisa Yumeji (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Sunday, January 17: New Japanese Photography (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
Sunday, January 24: Fontanesi (Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo) / Maruyama Okyo (Edo-Tokyo Museum)
Sunday, January 31: Hikaru Fujii Jam Session (Artizon Museum)
Monday, February 8: Shojo Manga Infinity (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
Sunday, February 21: Turner (National Museum of Western Art)
Sunday, March 14: The Tale of Genji (Tokyo National Museum)
Sunday, March 28: Musée d’Orsay (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) / Mariko Mori (Mori Art Museum)
*Information as of October 19, 2026. Please check the official websites for the latest information.

Frequently asked questions

Which exhibitions are free for students?

At the Artizon Museum, admission is free for university, vocational school and high school students (online reservation required). The Turner exhibition has free days for university and high school students from November 4 to 19. The Orsay exhibition is free for university and vocational school students on weekdays from December 8 to 18. The Okyo exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Museum is free for elementary, junior high and high school students. In addition, on Culture Day, Tuesday, November 3 (national holiday), museums such as the National Museum of Western Art and the Tokyo National Museum offer free admission (mainly to their collection and permanent exhibitions). The participating venues are covered in our article on museums with free admission on Culture Day, and corporate galleries with free admission in our Ginza gallery guide.

Which exhibitions require reservations?

The Marimekko exhibition requires timed-entry reservations, and the Louvre Museum Exhibition requires timed tickets from December 7. The Mori Art Museum has introduced timed tickets, but tickets can also be bought at the counter on the day if slots are available. The Tokyo National Museum says advance reservations are not required for its Daitokuji, Hiroshige and Tale of Genji exhibitions, and the Edo-Tokyo Museum says the same for its Okyo exhibition.

What if I travel further afield in the Tokyo area?

“Marie Antoinette Style” at the Yokohama Museum of Art is co-organized with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London and runs until Monday, November 23 (national holiday). In Hakone, the Pola Museum of Art is holding an exhibition that combines 19 oil paintings by Monet from its collection with 21st-century art. Titled “100 Years Since Monet’s Death and 25th Anniversary of the Museum: New Eyes — Monet and 21st-Century Art,” it runs until Wednesday, April 7, 2027.

*Top image: Installation view of “Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition: European Treasures That Crossed to America,” The Ueno Royal Museum, 2026 (from a press release by the Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition Press Office)

*This article was compiled by the TOKYO ART SPHERE editorial team based on official announcements by each organizer and facility (as of October 19, 2026).

Text: TOKYO ART SPHERE Editorial Team

A note from the publisher

*Disclosure: “ASAKUSA CULTURE & LIGHTS 2026” (projection mapping on the Main Hall and Hozomon Gate of Senso-ji and the special viewing of the Denboin Garden and Emado), introduced in this article, is an event planned and produced by HITOHATA, INC., an affiliate of HITOHATA ASSOCIATION, the general incorporated association that operates TOKYO ART SPHERE (About us).