The number of facilities where THE TOKYO PASS can be used is increasing. This article introduces the 8 new facilities that participated in 2023.
The Japan National Stadium was used as the main stadium of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You can tour around the areas that are not usually open to the public, such as the athlete locker room and athletics track, holding the memories of the Olympics and Paralympics.
Japan National Stadium Tour
https://kokuritu-tours.jp/en/
The museum houses approximately as many as 200,000 old and respected classic books and documents as well as 6,500 antiques of Asia, including 7 national treasures such as Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl and 84 important cultural properties.
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
https://www.seikado.or.jp/english/
*Until Oct. 11, not eligible for pass.
Opened in 1976. Known as the only museum in Asia to have shown Sunflowers by Van Gogh. Holds special exhibitions approximately five times a year featuring artists from in and out of Japan. Located within 5 minutes walk of Shinjuku Station, it is in a wonderful location.
Sompo Museum of Art
https://www.sompo-museum.org/en/
The museum exhibits a faithful reconstruction of the life of common people in the late Edo era. Visitors can experience Edo life with sound and light shifting to simulate a passing day.
Fukagawa Edo Museum
https://www.kcf.or.jp/fukagawa/
This museum holds a collection of old Japanese and Oriental artefacts such as paintings, including the national treasures “Illustrated Handscroll of The Tale of Genji” and “Illustrated Handscroll of the Diary of Lady Murasaki-shikibu”, tea ceremony paraphernalia, and pottery. Visitors can enjoy the museum building, which incorporates architecture from about 1,200 years ago, and a Japanese garden taking advantage of different levels, with a tearoom and stone Buddha statues amidst the flowers of each season.
The Gotoh Museum
https://www.gotoh-museum.or.jp/en/overview-en/
At the site of the second residence of the former-Sumitomo family, this museum was opened as an annex of the Sen-oku Hakukokan Museum in Kyoto. Between the two venues in Kyoto and Tokyo, the museum holds a collection with a wide variety of pieces, from Japanese and Chinese calligraphic works and paintings to modern paintings of Japan and the West, tea ceremony paraphernalia, Noh masks and costumes, and some renowned ancient Chinese bronze ware and mirrors, which are shown in their exhibitions.
SEN-OKU HAKUKOKAN MUSEUM TOKYO
https://sen-oku.or.jp/tokyo/en/
Features a permanent exhibition of the work of French painter Georges Rouault in its Rouault Gallery, along with themed exhibitions such as “Art Related to Rouault”, “Architecture and Living Spaces”, and “Design and Applied Arts.”
Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art
https://panasonic.co.jp/ew/museum/en/
A museum built within Toyo Bunko, the oldest and largest research library of Asian studies in Japan. Visitors can enjoy the valuable collection featuring about one million books, including national treasures and important cultural properties, and the highest quality ukiyo-e. The interior decoration is also worthy of note, including the Morrison Library that is thought to be the most beautiful book room in Japan.
Toyo Bunko Museum
http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/museum/museum_eindex.php
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