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Hatsune Miku/Hokusai exhibition in Tokyo lets you make your own Miku woodblock print
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2026 - Tweet
Printing Museum hosts mini exhibition for crossover of virtual idol and ukiyo-e art.
- Japan
- (art • culture • exhibitions • Hatsune Miku • history • hokusai • Katsushika Hokusai • museums • ukiyo-e • virtual idols • vocaloids • woodblock prints)
Go to hell! …at a limited time historical art exhibit coming to Osaka
- Master Blaster
Sep 7, 2026
It’ll be a hell of a good time.
- Japan
- (art • Buddhism • COK • culture • Descent into Hell • events • exhibitions • hell • jigoku • museums • mythology • Osaka • religion • shinto • Yomi)
Japanese Starbucks that’s also an art gallery hosts exhibition by painters from Tokyo’s top art school
- Casey Baseel
Sep 4, 2026
Starbucks in artsy neighborhood wants to showcase work by local creatives.
- Japan
- (art • art galleries • artists • cafes • coffee • cool • events • exhibitions • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Tokyo • Tokyo University of the Arts • Yanaka • Yanaka Ginza)
Tokyo’s Giga Mart lets visitors “steal” from a convenience store… if cameras don’t catch you
- Oona McGee
Jul 15, 2026
Pull off a convenience store heist without breaking the law.
- Japan
- (Azabudai Hills • Azabudai Hills Gallery • convenience store • convenience stores • events • exhibitions • Giga Mart • GigaMart • Japanese convenience stores • steal • stealing • TOH • Tokyo)
Grandpa Sensei solo art exhibition returning to Tokyo and he’ll be there every day of it
- Master Blaster
Jul 9, 2026
Take it easy and enjoy some painting with Harumichi Shibasaki.
- Japan
- (art • crayons • events • exhibitions • Grandpa Sensei • Harumichi Shibasaki • Hiltopia Art Square • painting • watercolor)
Final version of Sanrio: Beginning of Kawaii exhibition opens in Tokyo[Photos]
- Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2026
Hello Kitty and friends’ tour of the country comes to its last stop in downtown Tokyo with a look back on 60 years of cuteness, Japanese-style.
- Japan
- (Beginning of Kawaii • COK • cute • events • exhibitions • Hello Kitty • Kawaii • museums • Sanrio • Sanrio Exhibition • SNJO)
Exhibit featuring cutting-edge smell technology held at Tokyo Skytree
- Master Blaster
Dec 16, 2025
Come take a whiff of the future.
- Japan
- (exhibitions • fragrances • Nioi-ten Plus • NOS-DX1000 • odors • Scents • Skytree • smells • Sony • technology • Tokyo)
60th Anniversary Sanrio Exhibition opens this month to celebrate the Japanese culture of cute
- Krista Rogers
Jul 8, 2025
“The Beginning of Kawaii” exhibition explores the backstories of famous Sanrio characters and more.
- Japan
- (anniversary • COK • cute • exhibition • exhibitions • Hello Kitty • Ibaraki • mascot • mascot characters • Sanrio)
Sailor Moon Museum will finally make its outside-Japan debut
- Casey Baseel
Jul 3, 2025
After traveling to four cities in Japan, the exhibit is ready to head out and meet the international Sailor Moon fan community.
- Global, Japan
- (anime • exhibitions • manga • musicals • Sailor Moon • Sailor Moon Museum • Sailor Moon The Super Live • stage plays)
Riot of Demons actually a great reason to visit one of Tokyo’s most beautiful hotels this summer
- Casey Baseel
Jun 20, 2025
Historical section of Tokyo’s “museum hotel” to be overrun, beautifully, by oni.
- Japan
- (art • exhibitions • Hotel Gajoen Tokyo • meguro gajoen • oni • tourism • travel)
The Great Capcom Exhibition is coming to Osaka this spring
- Master Blaster
Mar 8, 2025
All the Capcom characters are here, from Ryu to the other Ryu!
- Japan
- (Capcom • Devil May Cry • events • exhibitions • Great Capcom Exhibition • Monster Hunter • Nakanoshima Museum of Art • Osaka • Resident Evil • Street Fighter • video games)
The bizarre anime hair of Detective Conan can now be yours with Ran and Conan hairbands【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 7, 2023
Unique hair accessories are part of 30th anniversary art exhibit for the hit anime/manga mystery series.
- Japan
- (anime • Case Closed • Detective Conan • events • exhibitions • funny • hair • hairbands • manga • Ran Mori • weird)
New Ghibli art exhibit lets you step into the studio’s anime posters. Sea of Corruption【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 1, 2023
Friday Road Show and Ghibli Exhibition is different from studio’s past art events, Ghibli co-founder says.
- Japan
- (anime • art • COK • exhibitions • Friday Road Show • Friday Road Show and Ghibli Exhibition • Hayao Miyazaki • Kiki's Delivery Service • Kinyo Road Show • movies • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind • ohm • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli)
Giant wearable baby head, huge randoseru backpack part of empathy-boosting art exhibit in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Aug 4, 2022
Would you appreciate being told “Go outside and play!” after carrying an 18.9-kilogram (41,7-pound) backpack on your commute?
- Japan
- (art • COK • cool • crazy • exhibitions • kids • Parenting • parents • randoseru • society • VR • weird)
“I couldn’t…wipe my own butt” – Hunter x Hunter manga creator discusses medical issues
- Casey Baseel
Jul 5, 2022
The “Yoshihiro Togashi is too lazy to draw new manga” narrative was missing some key facts.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • events • exhibitions • Hunter x Hunter • manga • Yoshihiro Togashi • YuYu Hakusho)
Pokémon skeletons and fossils now on display at Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2022
Excavator Pikachu and a few of his extinct pals want to teach us about real-world fossils.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • exhibitions • fossils • museums • National Museum of Nature and Science • Pikachu • Pokemon • science • video games • weird)
Email spam exhibition held online by Japanese telecom giant
- Master Blaster
Feb 18, 2022
Finally, an exhibition for con artists.
- Internet, Japan
- (cyber security • Cyber Security Month • exhibitions • internet spam • NTT DOCOMO • twitter)
The popular Night at the Aquarium: Lots of Sex exhibit returns to Tokyo’s Sunshine Aquarium
- Krista Rogers
Sep 21, 2021
We bet you’ve never read the words “sexy” and “fish” in the same phrase before.
- Japan
- (aquariums • exhibitions • funny • Ikebukuro • science • Sunshine Aquarium • Sunshine City • Tokyo • weird)
Exhibition on the 1,500 year-history of traditional Japanese women’s clothing to open in Shibuya
- Ingrid Tsai
Jul 5, 2021
Stunning and bold, this exhibition is a rare treat for kimono lovers.
- Japan
- (beautiful • Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum • COK • culture • Edo period • exhibitions • fashion • kimono • Muromachi Period • museums • Nara Era • Shibuya)
TeamLab’s new interactive tea art installation dazzles Japan with reactive, rhythmic lights【Vid】
- Katy Kelly
Apr 22, 2021
TeamLab’s Tea Time in the Soy Sauce Storehouse brings a whole new meaning to the term “tea light”.
- Japan
- (art • cool • culture • exhibitions • lights • museums • Okayama • soy sauce • tea • TeamLab • video)
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