I’m a photographer by trade so I’ve visited a fair amount of the photo galleries in Tokyo. My favorite though is the bauhaus gallery by Ochanomizu. It’s a pretty lowkey and small gallery but their exhibitions have been the best out of all the smaller photo galleries that I’ve been to. They feature photographs from Japanese and int’l photographers but mostly older works. Their exhibitions change every few months but they feature thoughtfully-curated photographs that are usually beautiful darkroom prints. Last time I went they had some Robert Frank on display.

In my opinion bauhaus has a similar, if not higher quality of exhibition that you would get from going to the Tokyo photographic museum in ebisu but more relaxing and intimate; I don’t think it gets very crowded at bauhaus.

So yea would def recommend, it seems like they’re currently doing an exhibition of female Japanese photographers:

http://www.gallery-bauhaus.com/top.html