Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (東京都写真美術館 Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan) is a photography gallery (with cinema) in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo.

The gallery opened in a temporary building in 1990 and moved to its current building in 1995. At that time, it was one of the first photography galleries in Japan not to be dedicated to the works of a single photographer. Most of the exhibitions since then have been themed rather than devoted to a single photographer, but exhibitions have been dedicated to such photographers of the past as Berenice Abbott (1990) and Tadahiko Hayashi (1993–4), and also to living photographers including Martin Parr (2007) and Hiromi Tsuchida (2008).

In order to appeal to children as well as adults, the gallery holds exhibitions of anime and video games.

The library of the gallery has a substantial collection of books of photographs.

As of late 2008, the gallery has no printed catalogue or electronic catalogue available externally. However, the book 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers presents a comment on and a small reproduction of a sample photograph of each of over three hundred photographers represented in the permanent collection of the gallery at the turn of the millennium. Most of the individual exhibitions are accompanied by printed catalogues; as is customary in Japan, most of these lack ISBNs and are not distributed as are regular books, their sales instead being limited to the museum itself.

The museum labels itself "Syabi", pronounced shabi.

As of late 2008, there is no entrance charge for the building or its research facilities, but each exhibition has an entrance charge.

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Diegoberto Bellamy
6 March 2023
Small museum with cool photos and art installations. Don’t forget to check out the store. It has great items on sale, perfect for gifts!
Ricky Lai
26 June 2019
A nice place to visit if you are into photography, free locker(require 100yen coin to lock but refundable) to deposit the bag and walk freely.
Carola Maffeo
2 December 2016
Nice museum, recently reopened. Connected to Ebisu station by a pedestrian passerelle that serves the nearby shopping district. Totally worth a visit.
Aaron Allon
27 December 2018
Wonderful photography museum with a cafe and bookstore. The building is beautiful as well. Plan to spend 1-2 hours
Siyeon Kim
14 February 2018
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions | 2/9-2/25Tokyo Photographic Art MuseumMaison franco-japonaise / The Garden Room / Center Square of Yebisu Garden Place
D&A Travel: Anders
13 September 2016
Monocle, Sep 2016: "Thanks to its new open layout, wooden flooring and larger café the difference is striking. [Showing] culturally significant photographs from among its collection of 33,000 works."
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Japan, 〒153-0062 Tōkyō-to, Meguro-ku, Mita, 1 Chome−13−3, 東京都写真美術館 Get directions
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