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December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026 / Free participation

A program introducing artists whose studios are less easily accessible, artists whose work deserves a wider audience, and those who continue their practices without being able to open their studios. Co-organized by NANTAN Tokyo OPEN STUDIO 2026 and Mina Arakaki.

Venue: Ota City Senzokuike Library
Address: 2-2-10 Minami-Senzoku, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 3 minutes on foot from Senzokuike Station or Senzokuike bus stop
Held during the library’s opening hours.

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UKAI House is a place for creative expression and drinks. It opened in 2024 on Ura-Ikegami Street, branching off the Honmonji-dori shopping street. The ground floor is a bar serving home-style dishes, and the second floor is a space for exhibitions, events, and other forms of expression.

Address: 4-31-5 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami
Business hours: 18:00–24:00 (closed Wednesdays and Thursdays)

Exhibition: December 4 (Fri) through 8 (Tue), 2026, 18:00–24:00 each day.
The artist will be present December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 18:00–24:00. The venue also plans to open with the artist present during the Ikegami mini-tour.

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Scheduled to open from December 4 (Fri), 2026 / Free admission

An exhibition project by OKADA Hiroko and HIROKO ITO at Shimoji, a Japanese restaurant in Kamata. Ito will create an original apron for the owner, and the two artists plan to present works and interventions that respond to the everyday restaurant setting.

Venue: Shimoji (dashi and creative Japanese cuisine)
Address: 2F, Corpo Kinema JR Kamata, 5-2-5 Kamata, Ota City, Tokyo
Exhibition content, opening hours, and other details are being confirmed.

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Participating venue: G02　OKADA Hiroko and HIROKO ITO / Shimoji

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A contemporary artist whose experiences of marriage, childbirth and parenting provide starting points for questioning family, love, the body, gender, and tensions within contemporary society, sometimes through humor and fiction. Working across video, photography, installation and performance, she moves between everyday and extraordinary situations, reality and fiction, to reconsider social structures that are often taken for granted.

Participating venue: G02　OKADA Hiroko and HIROKO ITO / Shimoji

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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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Live art-making by Manami Hayasaki.
Opening dates and hours: December 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026, 11:00–16:00.
Program details are being confirmed.

Access: 10 minutes on foot from the south exit of Nishi-Magome Station / 5 minutes from Manpukuji-mae bus stop

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Founded in 1972 with the aim of creating a vibrant society. Its five areas of activity are architectural design, building maintenance, education, farming, and community co-creation. Around 380 people with diverse backgrounds bring together practical expertise and ideas from within and beyond the organization to create new value across disciplinary boundaries.

Address: Kamata Asahi Building, 5-38-3 Kamata, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: JR Kamata

Opening times and program details for 2026 are being confirmed.

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November 21 (Sat)–December 6 (Sun), 2026, 12:00–18:00
Closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays / Free admission

The third exhibition in SAP CHANO's photographic series on neighborhood-factory craftspeople. This former factory space presents energetic portraits of Ota's craftspeople alongside related works and tools. A photo book will also be published.
Gallery talk: November 29 (Sun), 14:00, with guest 酒百宏一, professor at Tokyo University of Technology.

An art gallery of over 100 square meters, opened in a converted machine factory in 2015. It hosts exhibitions, live performances, and workshops.
Address: 2-22-2 Nishi-Kojiya, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 13 minutes on foot from Kojiya Station / 5 minutes from Naka-Kojiya bus stop

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December 4 (Fri), 2026
Session 1: 15:00–16:30 / Session 2: 17:00–18:30
Advance reservations required (10–12 people per session) / ¥500, including a drink

A reading of original poetry by Tsuguto TOMA with musical performance by 小島静二. This new encounter between poetry and music takes place at Kojima's viewing room, which began as a contemporary art gallery in 2002.

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【Tsuguto TOMA】
Poetry reading at Kojima's viewing room
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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Address: 3-17-21 Minami-Yukigaya, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 6 minutes on foot from Yukigaya-Otsuka Station / 3 minutes from Seimei Gakuen-shita bus stop

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Venue A: Tacoyaki Fuefuki — When the Ikegami Line Was the Ikegami Electric Railway
Venue B: Fujinoya Bookstore — Exploring the Ikegami Line through Retro Printed Materials

An exhibition by Cotonoha, publisher of the local magazine Machi no Techo, introducing old maps and bird's-eye views of neighborhoods along the Ikegami Line.

Related program: Book-launch talk on the history of the Ikegami Line and its neighborhoods through printed materials
December 12 (Sat), 2026, from 16:30
Guest: Mr. Ishida, local history researcher
Participation fee: Purchase of the book (up to ¥2,000)
Reservations: hariya@cotonoha.co

Tacoyaki Fuefuki: 2-31-2 Kamiikedai, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 1 minute on foot from Senzokuike Station

Exhibition dates and hours, and details at Fujinoya Bookstore, are being confirmed.

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November 14 (Sat)–December 13 (Sun), 2026
Saturdays and Sundays, 13:00–17:00 / Free admission

The first part of a solo exhibition by painter 加茂昂. Drawing on repeated fieldwork in earthquake-affected areas, the exhibition presents works exploring soil as a means of recovery, alongside the Sprouting Paintings series, in which plants grow within paintings made using compost pigments and seeds.

Soramame is a gallery opened by 坂元暁美 in her home. Since 2022, it has held one or two exhibitions a year, mainly featuring contemporary artists.
Address: 3-24-1 Minami-Senzoku, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 5 minutes on foot from Senzokuike Station / 11 minutes from Ookayama Station

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Installation: Endless Talk
Exhibition dates: November 29 (Sun)–December 13 (Sun), 2026
Opening hours:
Coffee waltz: Mon and Fri 15:00 to around 18:00, Sat 15:00–20:00, Sun and public holidays 12:00–18:00. Closed Tue–Thu.
Daily Dining BARLUCK: 17:00–23:30 (last orders at 23:00). Closed every Monday and every other Tuesday.
Admission: Free (the venues are food and drink establishments; please support them by making a purchase)

Venues: Coffee waltz / Daily Dining BARLUCK
Coffee waltz is a coffee stand in Higashi-Magome serving delicious coffee, and Daily Dining BARLUCK offers the pleasures of good food. Aoiassa's installation will be displayed during the open studio period.
Please note that the two venues have different opening days and hours.

【Aoiassa】
Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Alongside making and expressing, works as a social worker in child welfare, disability welfare and community welfare. Moved to Ota City during the COVID-19 pandemic and has been involved in organizing NANTAN Tokyo ArtCollective since 2025.
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Thoughts on the neighborhood
This is the neighborhood where I live and work. In its many places, people live alongside and support one another. I hope visitors will also find something they love about this town.

Addresses
Coffee waltz: 2-8-7 Higashi-Magome, Ota City, Tokyo
Daily Dining BARLUCK: 2-40-3 Sanno, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 10 minutes on foot from JR Omori Station / 3 minutes from the Tokyu Bus Magome Ginza stop

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An exhibition and live art-making by photographic artist Chihiro Kaneko at Nagashima Kogyosho, a factory founded in 1963 and run by three generations. Large windows, heavy steel beams, and pockets of shadow form the setting for works that consciously use light, including photographs taken with handheld lights and prints on translucent materials.

Kaneko is from Sendai, Miyagi. After working on Keihinjima, she studied under photographer Masato Seto.
Address: 1-19-4 Minami-Yukigaya, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: 10 minutes on foot from Ishikawadai Station

Scheduled opening dates: December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat) and 6 (Sun), 2026.
Opening hours are being confirmed.

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A coffee and everyday-goods shop run by L PACK.

Address: 4-26-9 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami

Open Fridays and Saturdays, 12:00–18:00. Closed Sundays.
Program details for 2026 are being confirmed.

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December 5 (Sat)–13 (Sun), 2026 / Free admission
Artists: 岩田圭音 (水銀ノ猫) and lemon tree

A two-person exhibition of copperplate prints and jewelry by 岩田圭音 and wire works by lemon tree, presenting intricate and delicate creations.

Luft+alt is a gallery on German-dori in Omori. It opened in 2022 on the second floor of the Yugeda Building, built in 1968, and holds one or two curated exhibitions a month.
Address: 2F, Yugeda Building, 1-31-11 Sanno, Ota City, Tokyo
Access: Omori Station / Sanno 2-chome or Omori-Sanno bus stops

Gallery hours: 12:00–18:00. Closed on Wednesdays.

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Hidden Lovely Space

December 4 (Fri), 5 (Sat), and 6 (Sun), 2026 / Free Admission
Venue: M60
Location: 1-chome, Tamagawa, Ota Ward (Address disclosed only during the exhibition period)
Directions: 3-minute walk from Yaguchi-watari Station
Hours: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Exhibition: Mineki Murata 　http://mineki-murata.com/

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An experimental space between art and everyday life, and a neighborhood cafe, centered on the idea of trying again and again. Encounters between people give rise to activities including cafe events, exhibitions, and live performances. Located in a public facility, it offers an open place for people and ideas to meet and for something new to emerge.

Address: 1F, Ikegami Kaikan, 1-32-8 Ikegami, Ota City, Tokyo
Nearest station: Ikegami

Open during regular business hours.
Opening dates and program details for 2026 are being confirmed.

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