21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

Information

Opening Hours:

10:00 - 19:00 (Entrance until 18:30)

Closed:

Tuesdays, New Year Holidays, Installation Periods

Admission:

General ¥1,600 / University Students ¥800 / High School Students ¥500 / Junior High School Students and under may enter for free

*Program information of Gallery 3 varies. Please refer to each program page.

Access

9-7-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

5 min. walk from Roppongi station (Toei Oedo Line / Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line) and Nogizaka station (Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line)

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT is a venue to redirect our eyes to everyday things and events, and create various proposals and communicate numerous discoveries from the design point of view.

Partners

21_21 DESIGN SIGHT has received the generous support of the many corporations and individuals who work with us to operate the venue.

21_21 NANJA MONJA

"21_21 NANJA MONJA" is a gallery shop selling unique products full of surprises.

Original Goods

We present items that allows visitors to take home the "design point of view"

21_21 CROSS TALK

Directors

Issey Miyake (Founder)
Taku Satoh (Director)
Naoto Fukasawa (Director)
Noriko Kawakami (Associate Director)

Architecture

The building was designed by architect Tadao Ando, whose brief was to design a structure that would represent Japan.

[Current Program]
Talk "The Making of Books from TASCHEN"
Dr. Petra Lamers-Schuetze, Executive Editor of TASCHEN

May 23, 2025

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Rates and Calender

Past Programs

Report of Talk "From Rotei (In-Leaking Garden) to Bowlscape"

Report of "Ramen Stalls in the Garden"

Report of Talk "Ramen × Design Analysis Starting from the Bowl"

Report of Special Talk "The Wall of pooploop"

Exhibition view of "The Eye of Gio Ponti: Crossing Boundaries with Lightness"

Exhibition view of "The Art of the RAMEN Bowl"

Report of Talk "The Circular World Connected by Fermentation"

The exhibition "pooploop" is on the TV program NHK World DESIGN×STORIES.

Report of Live Performance "Records of Phenomena"

Report of Talk "Brown Gems - The Age of Creative Defecation Design"