A Six-Metre Rabbit Stands in Tokyo Bay, and Two Kusama Balloons Fill an Atrium Nearby

A rabbit about six metres tall is standing in the water off Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo. It's Moon Rabbit Landing by Leiko Ikemura, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government says it's lit up at night. It belongs to TOKYO ATLAS, a free international art exhibition spread across Tokyo's waterfront until 20 December.

The other big draw is indoors in Aomi. The atrium of the Telecom Center Building, five storeys high, holds two of Yayoi Kusama's giant balloon works: Yayoi-chan (2012/2023) and A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe (2021), which is on show in Japan for the first time. The organisers say this is the first time the two have been shown together, and the art magazine Bijutsu Techo reports that the pairing was Kusama's own plan, made before her death earlier this year. Visitors can see them from several floors.

Kusama also has Narcissus Garden (1966/2026) in Daiba Park, an artificial island built in the late Edo period as a coastal gun battery. Further south, Aomi Minami Port Park sits beside a container terminal. Its programme includes La Bouteille, a performance in which the French artist Abraham Poincheval lives inside a giant bottle, and Goat's Eyes, a Tokyo University of the Arts project which, according to Bijutsu Techo, has two goats living in a pen in the park.

Under the same park, a 197.5-metre underground car park that is normally closed to the public has been opened as a venue. It's the one site that needs a timed reservation.

Most of TOKYO ATLAS is free, with a few paid programmes. It's open from 10am to 5pm (last entry 4:30pm) and closed on Mondays, except Monday 23 November, when it closes the following day instead. Mainly on weekends and public holidays, a boat runs between Odaiba Marine Park and Tennoz, with about four sailings a day at ¥1,500 per leg for adults and half price for high-school students and younger.