National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo - the only one of its kind in the whole of Japan. The basis of a rich collection of paintings and sculptures was the private collection of politician and businessman Matsukata Kozdiro who traveled extensively in Europe and bought works of art, mainly in Paris. His collection, located in France, were confiscated during the Second World War, but part of it was later returned to Japan as a sign of reconciliation of French and Japanese peoples.

In 1957, Ueno Park began construction of the museum, whose building was designed by renowned French architect Le Corbusier. Two years later, the museum was opened, and another twenty years later disciple of Le Corbusier Kunio Maekawa has attached to it an additional room.

Today, the museum has more than two thousand pieces, written by the most eminent painters and sculptors in Europe and North America who lived in the interval from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

The first floor of the museum is dedicated to the painters who worked in 15-18 centuries - including Italian masters Tintoretto, Veronese, the Flemish Rubens and Van Dyck, representatives of the German, French and Spanish school of painting. The new building of the museum Added in 1979, the stored paintings dating from the second half of the XIX century and the twentieth century. Among them - the paintings of French impressionists (Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin) and the Italian Futurists and British Pre-Raphaelites. The exhibition charts the museum shows works by Rembrandt, Goya, Durer and others. In addition, the museum in Tokyo offers the most comprehensive collection of works by Rodin, which includes 58 sculptures, including the famous work "The Thinker", "The Burghers of Calais" and "The Gates of Hell."