Museums and galleries that I've visited in the Tokyo area:

Ukiyo-e Avant Garde, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo. A collection of odd and entertaining Japanese woodblock prints.

Max Ernst, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo. A somewhat disappointing collection of the surrealist's sculptures and photographs.

The Victorian Nude, The University Art Museum - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Ueno, Tokyo. On tour from Tate Britain. Tokyo's Ueno Park, a favourite place for cherry blossom viewing in spring, has several art museums. Winthrop Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Ueno, Tokyo.

Orsay, National Museum of Western Art, Ueno. Rembrandt and Vermeer, National Museum of Western Art, Ueno. Rubens und Seine Zeit, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno.

	The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ueno Royal Museum, Ueno, Tokyo.

	Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Harajuku, Tokyo. The first part of a two part exhibition of ukiyo-e. It coincides with the 400th anniversary of the Edo Shogunate. The second part displayed all of Hiroshige's famous "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo". Busha-E, The Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya, Tokyo. An exhibition of martially themed ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints.

	Frida Kahlo Exhibition, Bunkamura, Shibuya, Tokyo. A collection of paintings by Frida Kahlo and other female Latin American surrealist painters. Rene Magritte Exhibition, Bunkamura, Shibuya, Tokyo.

Andy Warhol Collection, Bunkamura, Shibuya, Tokyo
Edward Hopper Exhibition, Bunkamura, Shibuya, Tokyo.	Man Ray Exhibition, Bunkamura, Shibuya, Tokyo.

	Stenberg Brothers Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Meguro Ward, Tokyo. The Stenburg brothers produced a series of graphicly striking movie posters for Russian silent films in the 1920s and 1930s. I originally saw this exhibition in NYC's MOMA several years earlier.
Posters in Utopia, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan. Another exhibition of Russian constructivist posters, these having strong political theme.

Chinese Civilization Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama. Mesopotamian Civilization Exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. The star artifact being The Code of Hammurabi. To celebrate NHK's 75th anniversary, four exhibitions of artifacts from early civilizations, China, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and Mesopotamia, were held in Tokyo and the surrounding area. Unfortunately I was only able to attend two of the four.

Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionists 1885-1905, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Shinjuku, Tokyo. This insurance company, formerly Yasuda Kasai, is most famous for purchasing Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" for $38 million during the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980s, a painting which many believe is a fake. In fact, many of the paintings bought by Japanese companies as investments during the bubble may in fact be worthless fakes.

	Nasu Stained Glass Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Built to resemble a cathedral, this small resort town museum is actually a pleasant front for the Japanese wedding industry.

Meguro Parasitological Museum, Meguro, Tokyo. A free museum with many parasites on display, some still inside their unfortunate hosts, all preserved in bottles. Believe it or not, it's actually a popular dating spot.

	Audry Hepburn Photo Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo. Nearly all the flagship department stores in the Tokyo area have an art or photo gallery of some kind:

The Doraemon, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama. Doraemon is a popular cartoon character in Japan, an earless blue robotic from the future.

	Salvador Dali Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Shinjuku. Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, Tobu Art Gallery, Ikebukuro.

	Nara Yoshitomo Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama. Cezanne and Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama.

Renoir Exhibition, Bridgestone Museum, Kyobashi, Tokyo. There are numerous corporate and private galleries in Japan. Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture.

	Shitamachi Museum, Ueno, Tokyo. A small historical museum on the edge of Ueno Park.

Tobacco and Salt Museum, Shibuya, Tokyo. A small museum dedicated to the two leading causes of heart disease and stroke: tobacco and salt. The Japanese have in the last few decades reduced the amount of salt they consume as part of their diet, but smoking is still not considered to be a health risk despite overwhelming medical evidence. The Japanese government is the major shareholder in Japan Tobacco, the country's tobacco monopoly, and so it's fitting that all the vintage cigarette packaging exhibited have no health warnings.

	Shin Yokohama Ramen Museum: the history of Japanese ramen from it's beginnings to instant ramen. The restaurants in the replica 1950's town in the basement are very crowded when there's a sports event at the nearby Yokohama International Stadium or a concert at the Yokohama Arena. http://www.bento.com/phgal3.html

Atami Adult Museum, Atami, Shizukoka Prefecture. This is yet another telephone card.

Soon to be added: Edo-Tokyo Museum Meguro Museum of Art http://www.syabi.com/schedule/details/tv_game_level_x.html Jintai Plasmotic Dentetsu Advertising Museum Ebisu Beer Museum

Museums and galleries that I've visited elsewhere:

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. When the Kuomintang fled soon-to-be Communist China, they took with them nearly the entire contents of the National Palace Museum in Beijing, which is now exhibited in Taipei.