Tokyo Opera City

Since opening in 1997, Tokyo Opera City has been recognised as one of the world’s most acoustically perfect concert halls, and this in a city that embraces classical music with fervour. It’s also one of the most architecturally daring, like a giant indoor A-frame. Even if you are unable to make it to a concert, Tokyo Opera City is called home by two of Tokyo’s best art spaces. The two storeys of the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery showcase temporary exhibits from new and established Japanese artists to fashion in Antwerp. Meanwhile the NTT Intercommunication Centre has an excellent collection of cutting-edge works and installations that address the myriad intersections of art and technology. Its superlative video library includes important works by artists such as Idemitsu Mako, Bill Viola and Nam June Paik, while installations on display include dreamy pieces such as works by Laurie Anderson, and Mikami Seiko’s World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body, designed especially for the museum’s eerie, echo-free chamber.