Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is awesome. I came here for the old Tokyo photography exhibit - A Traveler from 1200 Months in the Past. Admission was 700 yen. There were other exhibits and each one has their own admission cost. Video is not allowed and certain photos are not allowed to be photographed. It was great to see how Tokyo changed from patches of dirt to the way it is now.

Beautiful exhibit and museum. We did A Traveler from 1200 Months in the Past and it was amazing!! We left feeling very inspired and happy. We were even able to use our foreign student IDs for a discount 😁😁. The shop was very nice too!! I was surprised they had Fukase stuff 😁👍. Also make sure to go to the Top of Yebisu 39th floor for amazing free views of the city after visiting the museum!!

Beautiful museum with 2 exhibitions that were available to view at the time. Revolution 9: Homma Takashi and After the Landscape Theory. Bought tickets for both which I highly encourage. There’s lockers available for storing your bags which I recommend using. While a rather small art museum, you can freely digest the works here at your own pace. The gift shop is quite extensive with the numerous photography books available featuring Japanese and western photographers.

I loved this museum and I really recommend everyone to visit. It was very quiet the morning I was there and it was perfect. I got the ticket for both exhibitions, both were beautiful but the contemporary Japanese photography exhibition is unmissable. Interesting shop too.

Japanese photography has received global attention for its range of diverse, surreal, innovative, and exciting voices. The place to see and explore this visual art form is at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Meguro, which was the first of its kind built in Japan. Amusingly enough, it also calls itself the ‘Top Museum,’ which if nothing else is a rather memorable moniker. Those wishing to learn more about Japanese photography in general should pay a visit to the library on the fourth floor. It’s free and open to the public, with a good selection of reference materials, though these are primarily in Japanese. The museum also organizes lectures, workshops and photography-related events from time to time. Entrance fees vary by exhibition, so be sure to check their website before visiting.

Lovely museum. They had 3 exhibitions going on while I was there (one at each level) and you could choose which ones you wanted to visit. One exhibition cost around 1000 yen, 2 around 1500 yen and 3 at 2000 yen. I love the photography exhibition about Tokyo the most. The prints were beautiful and impressive. They also allow cameras. Makes for a great visit if you are popping by the area!

Great museum/gallery with rotating photography exhibitions featuring Japanese artists. Michiko Hoshino with his incredible Alaska collection currently showing.

I walked out after 10 minutes. Not a very large collection. One decent exhibition on second floor third room i believe. But in general i felt uninspired. Some of the installations were PAINFULLY cliche.

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is awesome. I came here for the old Tokyo photography exhibit - A Traveler from 1200 Months in the Past. Admission was 700 yen. There were other exhibits and each one has their own admission cost. Video is not allowed and certain photos are not allowed to be photographed. It was great to see how Tokyo changed from patches of dirt to the way it is now.

While on one of my trips to Tokyo in 2011 (yes it is a bit late as Yelp wasn't in Japan yet) I got to visit this Museum unfortunately I only got to visit part of the museum as it was quite large, There was a large exhibit of famous Photographers from all over the world including the likes of Walker Evans, Paul Fusco, Gary Winograd, Araki Nobuyoshi, Tsuchida Hiromi, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, Kuwabara Kineo, Kimura Ihee, Usui Kaoru, Jaques Henri Lartigue, Kondo Tomio, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier Bresson, Ryan McGinley, Martin Munkacsi, Scott Schuman, Walker Evans, Bruce Davison, Fukase Masahisa, Moriyama Daido and Takano Ryudai. This exhibit I have to admit just blew me away it was spectacular! I would love to visit again and see what other exhibits they may have when I am there next. If you love Photography you just have to check out this place.