Roppongi 六本木
The National Art Center is the only national museum in Japan without a collection of its own.
The name, ‘six trees’, dates back to the seventeenth century and recalls six zelkova trees that marked the area: the first three were cut down early on, the last ones burned in the 1945 bombings. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the area housed Imperial Army barracks, and after the war large US military installations, the origin of the expatriate community still present today. From the sixties to the eighties it was Tokyo's disco district; after the market crash of 1989 many venues closed, and the skyline changed with the opening of Roppongi Hills (2003) and Tokyo Midtown (2006).
Tokyo
Roppongi
