CREATIVE MUSEUM TOKYO — Attraction in Tokyo

This museum is just called the creative museum, which isn't very creative. It feels like a new building! What a nice atrium with places to sit and nice big signs about no eating or drinking.

The elevator is kind of hidden, but I recommend taking it rather than sitting on a million escalators for minutes while you slowly make your way upstairs to the actual gallery. The elevator is to the left of the info desk and around a corner or two. It feels like a liminal space back here, like a back hallway at an airport.

Yoshitake Shinsuke is super great. This is true and based on science. It was getting near the end of the exhibition period, so there were a lot of parents + kids in line out front. I didn't panic though and snaked around the many ropes until I was able to enter. There was a themed restaurant outside, also with a huge line, and a gift shop that you weren't allowed to enter unless you had a ticket for the main exhibit. Maybe this will be different for future displays.

But yeah, big spaces and lots of stuff to see. BUT WAIT everything is in Japanese! In Japan no less! Phones were allowed and so were photos, so I whipped out my trusty Google Lens app to translate for me BUT WAIT there's no Wifi and no reception in the gallery! TRAGIC. So I took pictures of stuff and had to use Google Lens later in the day once I was out of the building. So that happened.

Will I be back? Eh, it depends. I gravitate more towards free galleries and such, but it's in a fun area of the city so whooooooo knowwwwwws. Have fun! But not if you have...

I visited during the Hokusai Manga special limited time exhibition, so I do not have any insight into the museum in its regular form. But, I can comment on the space and the quality exhibition of the special Hokusai collection. The space is very modern, its on the 4th floor of the Toda Building in downtown Tokyo. You get up to the museum floor on 3 long escalators rather than an elevator, at least that was the only option I found. The museum is spacious, well lit, and well serviced with staff. There may be areas of an exhibition where taking photos is not allowed, so pay attention to the staff holding the signs with what is allowed or not. The audio tour for this exhibition was also excellent and very easy to operate, in English of course. Highly recommend...

I want to give a special mention and thanks to the staff on 6th Floor where the Demon Slayer Hashira exhibition was, particularly to a staff member named Yuta Sato. I had lost my handbag a couple weeks ago and was so worried about it being lost at the museum however I managed to find it with the help of staff at the museum who looked everywhere and helped me contact the parties who found it in a taxi (because I couldn’t speak Japanese). Thank you thank you! I will never forget the kindness shown by the staff here! Also the exhibition itself was amazing! I had goosebumps the whole time, I wanted to cry, and I am so glad I was there to...