Tokyo Art Beat's guide to Tokyo art gallery geography

Tokyo Art Beat writer (and CNNGo Contributor) William Andrews has created a neighborhood by neighborhood guide to Tokyo art galleries. Now if you are stuck in Kiyosumi Shirakawa you know to hit the Kiyosumi building and the five contemporary Japanese art galleries inside. (And then to go to a different neighborhood because there is nothing else there.)

Andrews had previously offered an architectural tour of Aoyama but actually locating Tokyo art galleries may have been the more difficult mission. The most interesting spaces are located in somewhat obscure locations: Mizuma Art Gallery is in Ichigaya and SCAI The Bathhouse is way out in Yanaka.

Tourists should consult a Tokyo map before thinking they can hit the entire TAB guide in a single day. Most of Tokyo's Japanese art lovers haven't even hit all these places, and they live here. This may be a "Beginner's Guide" but experts can use it as a partially completed check list.