Founded in 2016 as BUCKLE KOBO. The studio hosts occasional programs including Tekkoshima Festival and provides workspaces for guest artists. Its activities are inspired and supported by the work of the surrounding neighborhood factories.

Visits by guided tour only.
The address is not publicly listed.

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Satoru Aoyama Studio, with participating artists Satoru Aoyama, Shoko Ishikawa and Shinon Yamada.

Nearest station: Shimomaruko
The studio address is not publicly listed.
Opening dates and hours: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 11:00–17:00.
Reservations: satoruaoyama@mac.com

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Participating venue: S01　Satoru Aoyama · Shoko Ishikawa · Shinon Yamada / Satoru Aoyama Studio

Satoru Aoyama Studio
Born in Tokyo in 1973 and based in Tokyo. Aoyama uses the industrial sewing machine as a symbol of the machinery that has replaced handwork since the Industrial Revolution. His work addresses labor, the value of art and its transformation, gender, and at times race. Through intricate, delicate embroidery, he brings attention to people and things that become invisible or forgotten in a society shaped by accelerating capitalism and globalization.

Participating venue: S01　Satoru Aoyama · Shoko Ishikawa · Shinon Yamada / Satoru Aoyama Studio

Satoru Aoyama Studio
Using embroidery, collage and dye-sublimation printing, Ishikawa makes accumulated time and traces of memory visible through overlooked everyday scenes and materials used in daily life. Recent work takes her family's ironworks as a motif, considering the changes and layers that arise through inheritance.

Graduated in Textile Design from Tama Art University. After working as a research associate and assistant in its Department of Integrated Design, she became an assistant to artist Satoru Aoyama.
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Participating venue: S01　Satoru Aoyama · Shoko Ishikawa · Shinon Yamada / Satoru Aoyama Studio

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After graduating in Textile Design from Tama Art University, Yamada worked as an assistant in its Department of Integrated Design. She then trained for two years with a craftsperson in the screen-printing department of an apparel company in Nakameguro. Working with clothing and textiles through printing, she opened her own print shop, jijimomo, in 2026. She takes on a wide range of commissions from individuals and companies, focusing on screen printing.
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Painter and visual artist born in Zushi, Kanagawa, who lived in Ota City from childhood through his student years. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and the Fine Arts department of the School of Visual Arts. His research-based practice responds to the characteristics of particular places. His activities also include coordinating overseas artists for projects in disaster-affected areas, and more recently, creating VR works.

The address is not publicly listed. Visits by guided tour only.

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Born in 1965 in Ota City, Ichikawa is a specialist lighting artist and former sculptor who completed graduate studies at Musashino Art University. In 1988, he created a planetarium without a dome. After making sculptures with a science-fiction sensibility, he has increasingly collaborated with contemporary artists, using light to transform their works and spaces.

Opening dates and hours: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 11:00–17:00.
Visiting arrangements are being confirmed.
Address: 2-28-8 Den-en-chofu, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest stations: Den-en-chofu / Tamagawa

A sculptural artist working with wood, metal, hemp cord, and other materials. He explores forms that convey warmth and vitality through sight and touch, using handcraft techniques to create sculptural furniture and objects for everyday living spaces.

The address is not publicly listed.
Access: Zoshiki Station / Nishi-Rokugo 2-chome bus stop
Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
Opening hours and visiting arrangements, including reservations, are being confirmed.

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Yuki Mineo, Hidenari Bannai, Nakajima Mimi, TANAKA, Yohei

SHIFT — STUDIO Katakuriko × Omorihigashi SSS Exchange Exhibition
December 5 (Sat), 6 (Sun), 12 (Sat) and 13 (Sun), 2026, 13:00–18:00

Related program: 泉啓司, 翁素曼, グルテン, 坪倉信太郎, 東城信之介 (Studio Katakuriko)
Guest artists: 牛嶋みさを, Pocopen
STUDIO Katakuriko in Sagamihara and Omorihigashi SSS bring works to one another's studios in an exchange of perspectives and creative contexts. Workshops and pop-up shops are also planned.

Address: Yamagenso / Tanakaso, 1-23-9 Omori-Higashi, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 8 minutes on foot from Heiwajima Station

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Participating venue: S05　Omorihigashi SSS

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Born in 1980 and based in Tokyo. Graduated from the Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2003.

Through repeated, unplanned actions—painting, erasing, wiping, tracing, scratching, rubbing, scraping, sticking and peeling—Mineo builds layered paintings from the traces and expressions that emerge by chance.
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Participating venue: S05　Omorihigashi SSS

Omorihigashi SSS
Born in Saitama in 1996. Graduated from the Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University in 2021. Works primarily with video.
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Participating venue: S05　Omorihigashi SSS

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Born in 1976. Completed the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2003. Based at Omorihigashi SSS. Nakajima reconstructs fragments of memory and emotion through collage, painting and short texts. By holding indistinct memories and feelings that resist words within layers of material and empty space, she seeks to capture shifts in memory and emotion and give form to invisible sensations.
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Participating venue: S05　Omorihigashi SSS

Omorihigashi SSS
Born in Tokyo in 1975. Graduated from the Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2001. Began making video works (https://weekendintros.com) as daily sketches, and has expanded into installation, painting and other media using personal events and feelings as motifs. Based in Tokyo, he combines his art practice with other work.
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Born in Chiba in 1969. After graduating in architecture from Musashino Art University and working at an architectural practice, he held a solo exhibition at TARO NASU GALLERY in 2000 and has continued his artistic practice ever since. He works in a neighborhood dotted with small factories.

Visits by guided tour only.
Nearest station: Showajima, Tokyo Monorail
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Video artist born in Osaka in 1972. His practice explores the nature of moving images and critiques media society, spanning contemporary art, cinema, and live performance. His works have been presented in more than 30 countries. He has maintained a studio in Umeyashiki, Ota City, since 2017.

Visits by guided tour only.
Nearest station: Umeyashiki

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A neighborhood factory specializing in metal spinning, a rotary metal-forming technique. It manufactures parabolic antennas and aerospace components. Contemporary artist Teruo Takahashi works here as a craftsperson and also creates his own artwork.

Visits by guided tour only.
The outdoor artworks in the Michiniwa area can be viewed throughout the day.
Access: Keihinjima 2-chome 3-banchi bus stop

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A craftsperson and contemporary artist based on Tokyo's artificial industrial islands. His works use iron weathered by rain and fragments of various objects. His projects include the renovation of a space in Manazuru envisioned as a three-dimensional mandala. He is a member of the NANTAN Tokyo Open Studio organizing committee.

Opening dates and hours: December 5 (Sat), 2026, 13:00–16:00; December 6 (Sun), 11:00–16:00.
Family members will welcome visitors while Takahashi is guiding a tour on December 5.
Address: 1-3-13 Chuo, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 3 minutes on foot from Chuo 1-chome bus stop

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Born and based in Ota City. She completed a master's degree specializing in printmaking at Joshibi University of Art and Design. Her printmaking practice draws on news photographs, personal experiences, and memories. Selected exhibitions include an exhibition of Kazue Yamagishi and contemporary artists at Fujisawa City Art Space (2022), and START Box EXHIBITION vol.2 at Yurakucho Art Urbanism YAU (2024).

Visits by guided tour only.
Nearest station: Nagahara

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Born in Tokyo in 1992. A licensed first-class architect, he graduated from Tokyo University of Science and completed graduate studies at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He founded Shota Nemoto Architects in 2019 and mast in 2022. His designs range from architecture at the urban scale to small pieces of furniture, always beginning with fundamental questions.

Related program: Open house (free).
Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
Opening hours are being confirmed.
An introduction to the residential space above the studio is planned for visitors considering a home project.
The address is not publicly listed.
Nearest stations: Kamata, Yaguchinowatashi, Zoshiki

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NOMIGAWA STUDIO (Ikegami BOOK STUDIO)
December 4 (Fri), 2026, 13:30–18:00 / December 5 (Sat), 12:30–18:00

A community gallery and event space jointly operated by a landscape design practice and a video-streaming studio. BOOK STUDIO, a shared bookshop open on Fridays and Saturdays, is collectively run by individual bookshelf owners.

Address: 1F, Dai-go Asahi Building, 4-11-1 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami

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Opening dates and hours: December 4 (Fri) and 5 (Sat), 2026, 11:00–17:00.
Visiting arrangements are being confirmed.

Born in Tokyo in 1967. He presents moving-image works made from sequences of drawings in Japan and internationally. His activities include live performances with musicians and workshops using his handmade Emakimono Machine. He is renovating the studio himself, aiming to create a semi-public art space as well as a place to work.

Access: Magome Station / Choonji-mae bus stop

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Born and based in Ota City. She completed graduate studies in fine arts at Tokai University in 2013. Working primarily in painting, she has recently expanded into installation. An interest in people underlies her diverse subjects. She has held solo exhibitions at Gallery Q and Steps Gallery, as well as participating in numerous group exhibitions.

Address: 5-16-5 Higashi-Kojiya, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: Otorii Station / Higashi-Kojiya 2-chome bus stop

Opening dates and hours: December 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 11:00–16:00.
Not open to the general public on December 4 (Fri), due to the Kojiya tour.

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A design practice working mainly in Tokyo and Kyoto across cities, villages, architecture, and products. Alongside architectural design, it explores a village-like experimental environment through artworks, the Tokumaru Furniture brand, and its independent IE-NIWA project. The practice relocated to Shimomaruko in January 2026 and opens a small shop several times a month.

Program: yamashop (Kissa Takotoko) open days
Address: 2-5-21 Shimomaruko, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 8 minutes on foot from Shimomaruko or Musashi-Nitta Station

Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
Opening hours: 11:00–18:00.

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AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026 -All is FLUX-
December 1 (Tue)–26 (Sat), 2026 / Free admission

An art facility in a converted warehouse of approximately 3,000 square meters. The program includes open studios, exhibitions throughout the building, live art-making, gallery tours, workshops, and live music. This will be the final OPEN STUDIO in the current facility before its temporary closure for renovation.

Participating artists: 新垣美奈, 遠藤保子, 大坪晶, 大野公士, 影山萌子, 笠原出, かじのゆーふぉーず, 神田茉莉乃, Gil Kuno, 桑山彰彦, 児玉匡平, Jini, 當眞嗣人, 中島崇, 中島裕子, 中野美涼, 野中美里, 早崎真奈美, 平石萌, 婦木加奈子, 藤田クレア, 藤元明, 藤原京子, 星川あすか, 村上綾, 村上郁, 門馬翔, YOCHIYA
Guest artists: 加藤智大, 新藤杏子, 長坂絵夢, 門馬美喜, 山田哲平, 渡辺愛子

Address: 2-4-10 Jonanjima, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: Approximately 3 minutes on foot from Jonanjima 2-chome bus stop
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Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Creates and exhibits works primarily through painting, drawing on research into light, lighting and everyday landscapes in Japan and abroad. Since 2020, she has also researched rivers in Ota City. She has participated in numerous exhibitions since 2008, including the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024 in Tsunan, Niigata.

Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Central to Ohno's practice are reflections on existence and on life and death. He considers and analyzes how these concepts relate to the world. After graduating from art school, he continued researching the relationship between anatomy and art at a medical university. His ongoing inquiry into existence draws on quantum theory and relativity as well as ancient Eastern, Egyptian and Greek philosophy and other traditions of thought around the world.

Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Born in Koshigaya, Saitama in 1985.
2012: Contributed to the poetry magazine Gozen, from its first through sixth issues.
2014: Published "koe" in the December issue of Gendaishi Techo, Shichosha.
2020: Contributed to the literary magazines Dai-4-ji Dojidai and Kuro no Kai Techo.
2023: Published "Umi no Hibiki o Natsukashimu Toki," an account of visiting Daigaku Horiguchi's house, in Shijin no Ie II, Kenchiku Journal.
2024: Published Ki to Kotoba.
2025: Read original poems, including "AO," at Kojima's viewing room; published Ki to Kotoba 2.
2026: Read original poems, including "Ao o Oboete Iruka," at Kojima's viewing room.
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Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Contemporary artist born in Tokyo and based in Ota City. Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School in 1994. After working in Berlin, Germany from 2001, he is now based in Tokyo. Selected exhibitions include "The Encounter of Pictures and Words Begins a Story" (Ota City Museum of Art & Library, Gunma, 2017) and the solo exhibition "Traces of Energy" (Nizayama Forest Art Museum, 2026). Working primarily with packaging materials, he creates spatial works that make light, atmosphere and time in buildings and spaces visible as sites of events, encouraging new relationships. He also creates and exhibits works that question the paradox of protection and restraint inherent in packaging, indoors and outdoors, in Japan and internationally.
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YOCHIYA is a unit formed by カワナ ヤチヨ and ハタナカ ヨウイチロウ.
カワナ graduated from Musashino Art University; both graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

The unit places importance on the process of making. With respect for tradition, technology, and the skill and wisdom of people's hands, it explores the ambiguous territory between material and product through observation, documentation and experimentation from different perspectives.
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Born in Tokyo in 1982. Completed the graduate program in fine art (oil painting) at Tama Art University in 2007.
Based in Tokyo, she has exhibited at exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and abroad, including Shanghai and Taiwan, since 2004. She creates oil paintings using layers of color and brushwork that draw on staining techniques. Combining the activities of people, animals and plants, everyday incongruities and mythology with her own memories, she continues to construct pictorial spaces.
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Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1995. Graduated in Painting from the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Design and Fine Arts, Tokyo Zokei University in 2018. Based in Tokyo. Selected solo exhibitions include "紙と光庭" (ART FACTORY Jonanjima, Tokyo, 2026), "FRAGILE" (Gallery KINGYO, Tokyo, 2024) and "Skin" (Gallery KINGYO, Tokyo, 2022).
Group exhibitions include "ビジュツ、行動せよ！" and "ヒロシマ2020" (both at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum).
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Thoughts on the area and studio
Since graduating from university in 2018, I have continued making work in Ota City, spending around eight years in this area, including at my current studio at ART FACTORY Jonanjima.
I believe my connection with this place will continue, but this occasion feels like a milestone in my practice so far. The distinctive atmosphere of Ota City has always had a strong influence on my work.

Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Born in Paris. Completed the graduate program in Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2004. With painting at the center of her practice, she works across media, including map collages depicting lungs and three-dimensional works that focus on the layers of painting. Selected exhibitions include "LOOP HOLE Pavilion" (Fuchu Art Museum Citizens' Gallery, Tokyo, 2025), "気配 atmosphere" (LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, 2019), "フェット・プロジェクト2016" (Fuchu Art Museum Citizens' Gallery, Tokyo, 2016), "PROJECT 6581: Parallel Perception & Counter Connection" (JCC, Singapore, 2014), "fragments of landscape" (HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo, 2012), "ART in TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN Vol.10" (TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo, 2011), "時の遊園地" (Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Aichi, 2010) and "Melting Landscape" (LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, 2007).
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Born in Tokyo. Based in Tokyo, she creates sculptures and installations primarily using glass, as well as photographic works.
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Thoughts on the area and studio
I am able to make work in a comfortable environment.

Participating venue: S16　ART FACTORY JONANJIMA / AFJ OPEN STUDIO 2026

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Visual artist born in Kanagawa Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Architecture at Musashino Art University in 2018 and completed the Sculpture program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2023.
Selected exhibitions include "Nakanojo Biennale 2025" (Nakanojo, Agatsuma District, Gunma, 2025) and the solo exhibition art is calling "虚実の塔" (BUKATSUDO GALLERY, 2022).
Beginning with work in clay, she went on to study architecture and sculpture.
Working with sculpture, installation and video, she explores space through the idea that it may exist in human consciousness rather than in the objects that enclose it.
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Completed the graduate Oil Painting course at Musashino Art University in 2019. Working primarily with Tokyo's urban landscapes as motifs, she explores how environments affect people's bodily perceptions and emotions. Through spatial compositions combining fictional landscape paintings with three-dimensional clay works, she makes visible the realities that arise in artificial settings. Recent solo exhibitions include "借りてきた庭" (Ginza Tsutaya Books, 2026). Recognition includes the Eriko Kimura Prize at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2019 and selection for the 3rd CAF Award.
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Completed the Fine Art Expression program in Arts and Culture at the Graduate School of Education, Osaka Kyoiku University.
Lives in Tokyo.
Creates paintings and ceramics at ART FACTORY Jonanjima and THE BASES.
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Thoughts on the area and studio
What makes ART FACTORY Jonanjima so appealing is that it offers more than a studio in which to make work. It provides opportunities to connect with the people involved in the place and to create an open atelier together using its large exhibition spaces. I also really enjoyed taking breaks or eating lunch on the rooftop between sessions of making work, gazing at the sky, the sea and the planes.

During the event: Live drawing on a wall will take place intermittently.

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Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Metal program in the Department of Crafts, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University in 2005. Working primarily with iron, she is based in Tokyo and active in Japan and abroad. Recent exhibitions include Nakanojo Biennale 2023–2025 and Hiroshima MoCA FIVE 25/26. Her activities also include participation in symposia organized by a metallurgy society and lectures at a forum on the technology and history of iron.
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I have been supported by ART FACTORY Jonanjima for many years, using its studios since it first opened and continuing to use its workshops, mainly the metalworking area, to this day. It has been an invaluable place in my practice, not only for making work but also for meeting and connecting with many different artists. I feel a deep sense of regret and sadness about its temporary closure this year, but above all I am grateful to the staff who have provided such a comfortable working environment and so much support. Thank you very much.

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A workshop run by furniture maker 藤大輔. After working as a filmmaker, he began studying woodworking in 2011 and became a furniture maker. His practice focuses on reworking traditional Japanese furniture, including paulownia chests, low tables, and household Buddhist altars, giving pieces that have outlived their original roles new uses in contemporary homes.

Address: 2-31-17 Nishi-Kojiya, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Kojiya

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dodotokyo, Kant Iwamura

dodotokyo is a florist team creating distinctive worlds by combining flowers with unexpected materials. With the motto Flowers, Laughter, and Surprise, it plans and decorates weddings and events in commercial spaces. The team works from a former factory amid an industrial landscape.

Guided tours are welcomed. Visits outside a tour must be arranged in advance.
Nearest stations: Showajima, Heiwajima

Opening dates and hours: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 11:00–16:00.
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Alongside a career as a hairstylist and hair and makeup artist, Takahashi works as a visual artist in Japan and internationally. In June 2024, she opened STUDIO BERCHIN in Ikegami, Ota City, combining a hair salon with an art space. Its activities are guided by the idea that the space itself is an artwork.

Address: 2F, Tsunashima Shoten, 3-30-9 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami

Open December 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, from 13:00 to 17:00 on both days.

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An art studio created by a contemporary artist and an architect in a renovated house in Ota City's neighborhood-factory district. In addition to Yuna Ogino's artistic practice, the studio hosts exhibitions, events, and art seminars.

Address: 2-3-13 Minami-Rokugo, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Zoshiki

Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
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A design practice exploring the possibilities of color and materials. Founder Kaori Akiyama studied design engineering at Chiba University and worked at Itoki before establishing her practice. Her awards include iF Design Award Gold, DFA Design for Asia Gold, and the Good Design Award. Natural light and Ikegami's calm atmosphere provide the setting for her creative work.

Address: #202, 7-1-11 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami

Opening dates and hours: December 4 (Fri) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 13:00–18:00. December 5 (Sat), 10:00–18:00.
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Mina Arakaki, Design & Technology LLC., TOKYO MIZUHIKI, HIROKO ITO / HISUI HIROKO ITO, KAZUHISA MATSUDA / UKAW

A shared studio made up of connected spaces, bringing together practices in art, design, and technology. Painting and research, IoT development, new expressions of traditional mizuhiki paper cords, clothing, art, and architecture meet in this diverse creative hub.

Address: 2-29-5 Omori-Higashi, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest stations: Heiwajima, Omorimachi
Opening dates and hours: December 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 13:00–18:00.

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Creates and exhibits works primarily through painting, drawing on research into light, lighting and everyday landscapes in Japan and abroad. Since 2020, she has also researched rivers in Ota City. She has participated in numerous exhibitions since 2008, including the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2024 in Tsunan, Niigata.

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Exploring the relationship between design—not how something looks, but how it works—and technology, the company develops IoT device prototypes that put technologies for better functionality into practice. Its specialties are control systems and wireless communications.
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A creative brand that reinterprets the Japanese tradition of mizuhiki through a contemporary sensibility and introduces its possibilities in Japan and abroad. Respecting traditional knotting techniques while exploring new materials and designs, it creates artworks, accessories, spatial decorations and workshops. Its activities range from collaborations with hotels, commercial and cultural facilities to exhibitions at museums overseas.
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Fashion designer and artist. After graduating from FIT in New York and working at Comme des Garçons, Ito began her own brand in 1999. She now runs HISUI HIROKO ITO, continually asking what clothing is through her practice. Her art activities include the Double Hiroko Project with OKADA Hiroko. She is a member of the NANTAN Tokyo organizing committee, a part-time lecturer at Dressmaker Gakuin, and is also involved in her family's nori business.
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Born in Hokkaido in 1985. Completed a master's degree in architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Founded UKAW after working at architecture firms in Japan and abroad. Architectural projects include KOCA (2019), Omori no Rittai Koshi, and SOIL (2025). Presented The Planet of Nobody / Collective Unconscious (集體無意識之行星) at the New Taipei City Art Museum in Taiwan in 2026. Based at the shared studio TAIRU, he works across fields including art and industry.
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A creative unit formed by カワナヤチヨ and ハタナカヨウイチロウ. With respect for tradition, technology, and the skill and wisdom of people's hands, the unit explores the ambiguous territory between material and product through observation, documentation, and experimentation.

Address: 10-1 Denenchofu-Honcho, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest stations: Numabe, Ontakesan, Yukigaya-Otsuka, Tamagawa

Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
Opening hours: 11:00–18:00.

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