Views of This Place: Ueno, Omuta, Buenos Aires

The Ueno section follows the museum and its surroundings through paintings, prints, photographs and archival material, from the 1926 opening through the wartime and postwar years and the new building opened in 1975. Omuta brings together about 400 works by Egami Shigeo, who used accessible materials such as pencil, watercolour and crayon to keep looking at the places around him. Woodcuts, experiments in abstraction and dyed paper broaden the picture beyond landscape painting. The Buenos Aires section begins with Garden of Zinnias, a painting made in 1926. AHA!’s investigation into its artist, Fujioka Kanetaro, led to Fujioka Tetsutaro, whose name is written with the same characters but read differently. Tetsutaro moved to Argentina in 1927 and worked in landscaping and flower cultivation. The family records and flower-related material make this a story of inquiry into individual lives; the two men should not be treated as one person.

Reservation

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Tickets / booking

Adults ¥1,200; visitors aged 65 or over ¥1,000; students and visitors aged 18 or under enter free with proof. Holders of the specified disability or health certificates and one caregiver also enter free. Visitors aged 65 or over enter free on 21 September, and everyone enters free on 1 October. Eligible adult and senior visitors who present a ticket for the concurrent British Museum Japanese-art exhibition at this museum can visit Views of This Place for ¥100. The August Friday-evening discount has ended.

Price note

Adults ¥1,200; age 65+ ¥1,000; students and age 18 or under free with proof. Special concessions and date-specific free entry apply.

Access

Galleries A, B and C are at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 8-36 Ueno Park. Walk seven minutes from JR Ueno Station’s Park Gate, or ten minutes from Tokyo Metro Ueno Station Exit 7 or Keisei Ueno Station. The main entrance has an escalator and lift; the east entrance has stairs. The museum has no visitor parking.

Rain

This is an indoor exhibition reached through Ueno Park. The main entrance provides the lift and escalator route into the museum. On Fridays, the galleries remain open until 20:00, with last admission at 19:30; on other open days last admission is 17:00.

Crowds

Carry proof for student, age or certificate-based concessions. School visits qualifying for the stated exemption need advance application, and associated programmes may have separate registration; check their own conditions if you want to add one to your gallery visit.

Nearby spots

The walk from JR Ueno’s Park Gate passes the National Museum of Western Art and continues towards the fountain square. Visiting this exhibition before or after a park walk lets the Ueno archive section connect with the surrounding place; nearby institutions have their own tickets and hours.

Itinerary hint

Use the three sections as a comparison: the museum’s institutional history in Ueno, Egami’s repeated observation of local life, and the archive trail to Buenos Aires. Friday evening opening offers a later museum stop. If combining the two current exhibitions at this museum, retain the British Museum exhibition ticket for the stated ¥100 admission offer to Views of This Place.