Ad Museum Tokyo (アド・ミュージアム東京, Ado Myuciamu Tokyo) is an advertising museum in Shiodome in the Minato ward of Tokyo, Japan. Located in the basement of the Caretta Shiodome Building, it is the only museum in Japan dedicated to the promotion of studies...
The following is a list of museums and art galleries in Tokyo. To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order; refresh the page to reset...
The Standing Buddha of the Tokyo National Museum is an example of Greco-Buddhist statuary. Comparable ones can be found in the Guimet Museum in France, and in the National Museum, New Delhi besides various other museums of South Asia.
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital and most populous city of Japan. The population of the city proper was over 14 million as of 2023. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the...
Traditional Japanese crafts (工芸, kōgei; lit. 'engineered art') have a long history. Included in the category of traditional crafts are handicrafts produced by individual artisans or groups, as well as works created by independent studio artists...
Haniwa (埴輪) are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan. Haniwa were created using the wazumi technique, in which...
Shibuya (渋谷区, Shibuya-ku; IPA: [ɕì.bɯ̈́.jä́(.kɯ̈̀)] ) is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. A major commercial center, Shibuya houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya Station and Shinjuku Station (southern half). As of January...
The Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 東京地下鉄株式会社, Hepburn: Tōkyō Chikatetsu kabushiki gaisha; lit. 'Tokyo Subway Share Company') is a tokushu gaisha (state-owned joint-stock company) jointly controlled by the Government of Japan and the Tokyo...
The Wanli era was the period in Chinese history corresponding to the reign of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty, spanning from 1573 to 1620. It was preceded by the Longqing era and was succeeded by the Taichang era, upon the accession of the...
Adachi (足立区, Adachi-ku; Japanese pronunciation: [ä̀.dä́.c̟͡ɕí, -c̟͡ɕi̥.kɯ̈̀]) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It is located to the north of the heart of Tokyo. The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land...
