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Kogeikan

Address: 1-1 Kita-no-maru Koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03/3211-7781

Crafts Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Chiyoda-ku

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Fodor's Review:

For those who are interested in modern and traditional Japanese crafts, this museum is worth seeing. Built in 1910, the Kogeikan, once the headquarters of the Imperial Guard, is a Gothic Revival red brick building. The exhibits are all too few, but many master artists are represented here in the traditions of lacquerware, textiles, pottery, bamboo, and metalwork. The most direct access to the gallery is from the Takebashi subway station on the Tozai Line (Exit 1B).

Cost: ¥200, admission to National Museum of Modern Art is separate; additional fee for special exhibits; free 1st Sun. of month
Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-5
Subway: Hanzo-mon and Shinjuku subway lines, Kudanshita Station (Exit 2); Tozai subway line, Takebashi Station (Exit 1b)

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