Roppongi, Tokyo

Roppongi, Tokyo

The Roppongi district is Tokyo's modern cultural center, teeming with art museums, nightclubs, shopping complexes, cabarets, and entertainment venues.

The Roppongi district is Tokyo's modern cultural center, teeming with art museums, nightclubs, shopping complexes, cabarets, and entertainment venues. Home to the city's expat community, it has several embassies and foreigner-friendly bars and restaurants.

The 'Art Triangle Roppongi' comprises ✓The National Art Center – Japan's largest art museum which showcases temporary collections only, ✓Mori Art Museum which exhibits contemporary art and primarily exhibits works of Asian artists, and ✓Suntory Museum of Art inside Tokyo Midtown.

The upscale Roppongi Hills includes restaurants, cafés, movie theatres, shops, the TV Asahi station, office space, a traditional Japanese landscape garden, an amphitheatre, and the 54-storey Mori Tower which has the Mori Art Museum and Tokyo City View observation deck.

The Tokyo Midtown development has the 248 metre tall Midtown Tower which is home to the Ritz-Carlton, and the 21_21 Design Sight museum.