The Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills is one of my favorite art museums. It’s location at the top of the Mori Towers does help, but it’s also because of the excellent curation of the exhibits. The use of space and lighting goes a long way in helping my appreciation of art.

When visiting the Mori Art Museum, there are various ticketing combinations you can purchase. Tickets solely for the museum, or tickets for the museum, it’s temporary exhibition and the Tokyo City View & Sky Deck. I definitely recommend getting tickets for the City View, it’s a 360 degree view of Tokyo. There’s also some nice cafes along the City Viewing gallery.

But the real spectacular views are reserved for the Sky Deck. It’s basically the helipad right on top of the building. It’s the best view ever! Even higher than the Tokyo Tower.

It’s amazing how small Shinuku looks from a distance as in the pic above. Cause when you’re standing right in the middle of Shinjuku, it’s just brick and motar all around and makes me feel like an ant.

The entrance up to the museum proper is via some elevators. The exhibition that was on when I was there in January was Medicine and Art. A pretty interesting exhibition.

One of the things that the museum does well is the use of an audio guide. Similar to our National Museum of Singapore in which you press numbers to select which audio commentary you want to hear. But without the uncomfortable headphones, you put this audio guide up to your ears to listen. It’s clear without being too loud to disturb other visitors.

The exhibits were an eye opener, with a mix of abstract modern pieces and historical pieces. They even had George Washington’s false teeth and Charles Darwin’s walking cane!! How’s that for pieces of history?

The exhibit that really caught my eye was L’Hospice (The Nursing Home) by Gilles Barbier. This was a brilliant display! Showing our fave superheroes like Superman, Captain America and the Hulk all old and wrecked by aging. Shows us that superheroes are mortal after all. heh

It was my 2nd time at the Mori Art Museum and it didn’t disappoint. It’s definitely one of those rare museums that can really spur your interest in the arts. A great place to visit when in Tokyo!

Roppongi, one of the high class areas of Tokyo and home of the Mori Art Museum.

The day started with quick trip to Akihabara to check out some toys followed by a great find, Tempura! We came across this chain of tempura restaurants which in our opinion, served the best tempura we have ever eaten. The squid in particular was delicious, not rubbery, just nice and chewy. Shiok!

Before Roppongi Hills, we dropped by Tokyo Tower. One of the landmarks in Tokyo. Well, it was just a tower, doesn’t even come close to places like the Eiffel Tower.

The Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills. Named after the tycoon, the building is a landmark in Roppongi and holds the Mori Art Museum on it’s 52 floor. The museum incorporates the Tokyo City View and the art museum on the 52 floor, and the Sky Deck from the top of the building.

The city view was pretty spectacular with 360 degree views of Tokyo from the gallery. You could see as far as the Odaiba and the rainbow bridge.

The view was also up close and personal as you can see from the pic above. You can go right up to the window and look down. wooooooo

Mori must also be an avid car collector. He had Ferrari’s from different ages as well as an Audi Spider on show.

One of the best views ever was from the top of Mori Tower. Behind Jas is the helipad. It reminded me of the top of Swiss hotel, and the view of Singapore from there is just as good.

The Mori Art Museum, it is known as one of the better art museums worldwide, and I was about to find out why.

The exhibits were all engaging and I had a great experience there. Pics will not be able to give you full experience of the various rooms where the artworks lay.

The above was one of my fave artworks. It had symbolism to the 9/11 attacks in New York.

The museum gave me my best experience ever in an art museum. It showed me that art could really be fun and interesting. The above visuals depict the various ads put out by the museum. Even those are works of art.

After our museum visit, we walked around roppongi. The streets weren’t as interesting as Shinjuku or Shibuya, but we did come across Hard Rock Tokyo.

We ventured back to Shinjuku and were looking for a place for dinner. We decided to have our first and only non-Japanese meal, and what a great choice it was. We had Octopus Sashimi, and two pizzas!! I forgot to take the seafood pizza as I was too busy eating. heh,, the Japs sure know how to make pizza, I like how they always make their crusts nice and thin. Yummmm