The Roppongi Art Crawl
Three world-class museums, one design gallery, and tonkatsu to finish.
Roppongi has the densest concentration of serious art in Japan, and almost nobody plans a day around it. This route strings the art triangle together with a walk through Aoyama to the most beautiful small museum in Tokyo, and ends with the tonkatsu that has been drawing queues since 1965. Buy the triangle ticket discount where offered, your feet do the rest.
Tap to follow the route on the interactive map- 馃彌 Museum 路 Roppongi
Mori Art Museum
Start at the top, literally. Contemporary blockbusters 52 floors up, and your ticket includes the city view from the observation deck.
- 馃毝 8 min walk馃彌 Museum 路 Roppongi
21_21 Design Sight
Issey Miyake and Tadao Ando built a design museum half-buried in Midtown Garden. The exhibitions make ordinary objects fascinating, which is the most Japanese superpower of all.
- 馃毝 4 min walk馃彌 Museum 路 Roppongi
The National Art Center
No permanent collection, just a rolling slate of huge exhibitions inside that astonishing glass wave. The basement cafe under the inverted cone is the rest stop.
- 馃毝 11 min walk馃彌 Museum 路 Aoyama
Nezu Museum
A 20 minute walk through Aoyama brings you to pre-modern Asian art behind a Kengo Kuma bamboo entrance, with the best small garden in central Tokyo hiding behind it.
- 馃毝 10 min walk馃崪 Food 路 Omotesando
Tonkatsu Maisen
Finish in a converted pre-war bathhouse eating the kurobuta tonkatsu that every other tonkatsu gets measured against. You earned it.
