Ueno Park - National Museum of Western Art Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan

The National Museum of Western Art is found in Ueno Park just three minutes' walk from Ueno Station. It was built in 1959, to plans by the famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The exhibits - works of French artists for the most part - come mainly from the collection made by Kojiro Matsukata during his visit to Europe early in the present C.

In the courtyard works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin are on show, together with canvases by the Impressionists Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

Visitors who have already visited the great art collections in either the capital cities of Europe or in the United States will not need to visit this exhibition of Western art in Tokyo, they will be disappointed, for masterpieces are not represented here.