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Mitsuo Aida Museum

Mitsuo Aida Museum
Exhibition Room

The Mitsuo Aida Museum is a place where the public can come face to face with the many deeply resonating works left behind by the calligrapher and poet Mitsuo Aida in "My Words" and "My Writings".

The museum exhibits the words of a man who viewed life as sacred, expressed in his own unique calligraphy. The themed yearly special exhibition showcases an average of 100 works. Aida Mitsuo encountered a Zen priest during his youth and spent his lifetime learning Shobugenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), and the thoughts of Buddhist monks flow into the basis of his writing.

Laying bare his own weaknesses and faults, Aida expressed his human self in his works without any flourish; and readers feel his works tell earnestly of another time. There are many fans of the unique sensations his works inspire in readers.


  • Electronic Well
  • Ningendamono, a work of Mitsuo Aida

Click on the photo for enlarged view

Basic information

Hours

10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Last admission 5:00 p.m.)

Closed

Mondays
*When Monday is a national holiday, the museum is closed on the following Tuesday.

Admission Fee

  • Adults: 800 yen
  • Junior high & High school students: 500 yen
  • Elementary school students: 200 yen
  • 70 years or over: 500 yen
  • *Admission free for infants or under, disability persons and their escort.
  • *Admission free for use of Museum Shop only.

Address

Tokyo International Forum B1, 3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
TEL: 03-6212-3200

Access

By JR Line
  • 3 min walk from Tokyo International Forum Exit of Yurakucho Sta. on JR Line.
  • 5 min walk from Marunouchi South Exit of Tokyo Sta. on JR Line.
  • Direct link from underground concourse of Exit No.4, Tokyo Sta. on JR Keiyo Line.
By Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line
  • 3 min walk from underground concourse of Exit D5 of Yurakucho Sta.
By Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line
  • 5 min walk from Hibiya Sta. or Ginza Sta.
By Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line
  • 5 min walk from Tokyo Sta. or Ginza Sta.
By Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line
  • 7 min walk from Nijubashimae Sta. or Hibiya Sta.
By Tokyo Metro Ginza Line
  • 7 min walk from Ginza Sta. or Kyobashi Sta.

Website

http://www.mitsuo.co.jp/museum/foreign/index.html

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