Tokyo

Spaces, venues

• Bar Isshee, small live music venue, Bunkyo, *2008
• Café Lavandería, cafe & concert venue, Shinjuku, *2006
• Club Goodman, live music venue, Chiyoda
• Enban, record store and small live music venue, Koenji/Suginami
• Forestlimit, experimental venue, Hatagaya/ Shibuya
• Ftarri, improvised & experimental music store and small live music venue, Bunkyo, *2012
• ftftftf (七針), studio/venue, Chuo-ku
• Genron Cafe, debate cafe, Shinagawa, *2012
• Hagiso, art gallery & cafe, Taito, *2013
• Irregular Rhythm Asylum, bookstore & infoshop, Shinjuku, *2004
• Kiryuusha, book cafe, Setagaya
• Knock, music venue, Koenji/Suginami
• Knuttel House, avant jazz and folk music bar, Taito
• Lady Jane, jazz bar, Setagaya, *1975
• Lilmag, zine store
• Los Apson?, record store, Koenji/Suginami, *1994
• Manda-la2, live venue, Kichijoji
• Mosakusha, mini-comics bookstore, Shinjuku, *1970
• NADiff, artbooks chain store, Shibuya, Meguro, Koto
• Ongoing, art centre, Musashino, *2008
• Permian, free improvisation venue, Shinagawa
• Pool, multipurpose space, Nerima
• Popotame, books & gallery, Toshima
• Post, bookshop, Shibuya
• Pundit, Koenji/Suginami
• Merdre, artist-run space & cafe, Fuchu
• Roji to Hito, Chiyoda, *2010, [1]
• Shiroto no Ran No.12, general grocery store, Koenji/Suginami, *2011
• soup, live music venue, Shinjuku, *2006
• Sunny Boy Books, art bookshop, Meguro
• Taco ché, bookstore, Nakano
• Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), art center, Sumida, *2001
• WWW / WWW X / WWWβ / Gallery X, concert venues, Shibuya, *2010, *2016, *2017

• Past spaces: 3331 Arts Chiyoda (art space, Chiyoda, 2010-2023).

• more: autonomous venues, jazz bars

Events

Image Forum Festival for moving image art (1973-1975, 1981-1985, *1987), The Mall festival (*2018), No Limit: Tokyo Autonomous Zone festival (2016), Tokyo Art Book Fair (*2009), Tokyo Zinester Gathering (*2014).

Event listings: Tochoh music events, bloc, Tokyo Gig Guide, Tokyo Art Beat.

Art workers

• Akihiro Kubota
• dj sniff
• Kyoko Michishita
• Otomo Yoshihide
• Yoshiyuki Suzuki (鈴木 啓之)
• Yukiko Shikata

• RIP: Seiko Mikami (1961-2015), Shōzō Shimamoto (1928-2013), Takehisa Kosugi (1938-2018), Tari Ito (1951-2021), Yasunao Tone (1935-2025).

Publications

• Andrew Maerkle, Roger McDonald, "Alternative Spaces in Japan", Asia Art Archive, 1 Mar 2006.
• Osamu Ikeda (池田修), アートイニシアティブ：リレーする構造 [Art Initiative Communicative Infrastructure], Yokohama: BankART1929, 2009, 223 pp. [2] (Japanese)
• Genron, ed. Hiroki Azuma, Tokyo: Genron, since 2015. Critical magazine. [3]

See also

• Monoskop's Tokyo Twitter list

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