EVENTS

Nono Sanpo

Upcoming

Type: Sanpo

Venue: Nihonbashi/Bakurocho Area

Etoile Kaito Living Bldg.

1-15-15 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku

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Date: 11/16/2025 Sun.
14:00–16:00

Ticket: ¥3,500
*includes admission to the Tokyo Biennale main exhibition venue, Etoile Kaito Living Building

Take a Leisurely Walk with “Nono the Akita” through the Tokyo Biennale Exhibition Venues

Join us for a relaxed stroll with Nono, an Akita dog owned by Masato Nakamura, General Producer of the Tokyo Biennale.

The walk will include commentary by Nakamura about the cityscape and artworks. Starting from the main exhibition venue, Étoile Kaito Living Building, we’ll visit three venues featuring kanban (signboard-style) architecture along the way, and finish at Yubido in Kanda-Ogawamachi.
After the walk, there will also be time to interact with Nono the Akita at Yubido.

Date and Time: Sunday, November 16, 14:00–16:00 (subject to slight extension)
Meeting Point: In front of Étoile Kaito Living Building (1-15-15 Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
End Point: Yubido
Participation Fee: ¥3,500 (includes admission to the main Tokyo Biennale venue, Étoile Kaito Living Building)
Payment will be collected in cash on the day of the event.
Capacity: 10 participants (first come, first served)

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Notes
• Please visit the exhibition at the main venue, Étoile Kaito Living Building, before the meeting time, as Nono the Akita cannot enter the exhibition space.
• The event will proceed in light rain, but will be postponed in case of heavy rain.
• Participation fees will be collected in cash on the day.

Apply here

Artists

Map

2 min walk from JR Sobu Line Bakurocho Sta. (Ex. 4)
6 min walk from Toei Shinjuku Line Bakuroyokoyama Sta. (Ex. A1)

Please note this is not the Etoile Kaito Product Department Building.

One of the artist’s works in the Photo Project “Tokyo Perspective.”

Masato Nakamura

Artist, Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (Department of Painting). Born 1963 in Odate City, Akita, Japan. In the early 1990’s, he set up guerilla art projects –THE GINBURART in Ginza and Sinjuku Shonen Art in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district (1993). In 1997, he formed an alternative artist initiative called “commandN.” Activities of this group include the international video installation “Akihabara TV” held multiple years in 1999, 2000, and 2002. His work was displayed in the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) Japan Pavilion First & Slow exhibition.

From 2004, he founded a number of art projects including himming in Himi (Toyama Pref.) and ZERODATE in Odate (Akita Pref.) Nakamura then founded 3331 Arts Chiyoda in June 2010 as an independent and sustainable art center. With an extensive background in a variety of expressive activities, starting in summer 2020 he is taking on the challenge of developing the Tokyo Biennale, an art festival that will dig for the cultural and artistic resources underlying the city of Tokyo.