The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is a five-floor building, with four floors above ground and one floor below ground.
Getting Around the Museum
- Tactile paving is laid inside the museum. There is no tactile paving inside the exhibition galleries, the Hall, or the Studio.
- You can move between floors by elevator.
- There are two elevators. From the Main (East) Entrance, they are at the end of the corridor in the 11 o’clock direction.
- The elevator on the left stops at floors B1F to 4F, and the elevator on the right stops at floors B1F to 3F. Both are wheelchair accessible. Both have mirrors.
- The stairs are to the left of the elevators
Facilities and Floors
- Entrance/Exit (Main/East Entrance): 1st floor
- Main Information Desk: 1st floor
- Exhibition galleries: Floor B1, 2nd and 3rd floors
- Hall: 1st floor
- Studio: 1st floor
- Cafe: 1st floor
- Museum Shop: 2nd floor
- Library: 4th floor
Floor-by-Floor Guide
1st Floor
- The Main Information Desk, the Hall, the Studio, and the Cafe are on this floor.
- The Main Information Desk is on the right, about 5 meters in from the Main (East) Entrance. Staff at the desk sell tickets and give information about the museum.
- Facilities on the 1st floor: coin lockers, drinking fountains, a nursing room, an accessible toilet, a women’s toilet, and a men’s toilet. An AED is near the Main Information Desk.
- Only the accessible toilet on the 1st floor has facilities for ostomates.
- The accessible toilets on all floors, including the 1st floor, have diaper-changing tables. (The nursing room on the 1st floor also has a diaper-changing table.)
Floor B1
- There is an exhibition gallery on this floor.
- Facilities on floor B1: an accessible toilet, a women’s toilet, a men’s toilet, and drinking fountains.
2nd Floor
- An exhibition gallery, the Museum Shop, and a lobby are on this floor.
- The lobby has tables and chairs where you can rest.
- Facilities on the 2nd floor: an accessible toilet, a women’s toilet, a men’s toilet, and drinking fountains.
3rd Floor
- There is an exhibition gallery on this floor.
- Facilities on the 3rd floor: an accessible toilet, a women’s toilet, a men’s toilet, and drinking fountains. An AED is in the lobby, next to the toilets.
4th Floor
- The Library is on this floor. The entrance has an automatic door. You can enter with a wheelchair.
- Facilities on the 4th floor: coin lockers, an accessible toilet, a women’s toilet, and a men’s toilet.
If You Need Help
- Please ask at the information desk on each floor or ask a nearby staff member.
- The information desk on each floor is directly in front of you as you exit the elevator, at the entrance to the exhibition gallery.
