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Tokyo & Kyoto: Exclusive Art Collections, Traditions & Innovations

October 9 – 18, 2025

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Explore the interplay between Japan’s centuries-old artistic techniques and its boundary-pushing contemporary vision.

Journey alongside Page Knox, an art historian who lectures at Columbia University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With luxurious accommodations at the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi  engage in curator-led tours of the Mori Art Museum and other art spaces; enter Takashi Kuribayashi’s contemporary art installation, a private underground steam chamber infused with medicinal herbs; and venture through the world’s first digital art museum, teamLab Borderless.

Behind the Scenes of Ancient Temples

 In Nikko, gain exclusive access to centuries-old architectural scrolls during a private viewing with a Shinto priest at Toshogu Shrine. Continue to Kyoto with accommodations at the Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto. Go behind the scenes of ancient temples and join master gardeners at the Garden of Fine Arts as they share traditional pruning methods before we dine in their private teahouse, typically closed to visitors. Savor exquisite Japanese cuisine throughout the program, including a special meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant within a 14th-century Buddhist temple. You may join Page for an optional postlude to the art-centered islands of Naoshima and Teshima (October 18-21).

Highlights

Lecturer

Page Knox

Lecturer

Page Knox is a Core Lecturer in the Art History Department of Columbia University, where she received her PhD in 2012. She is a Contractual Lecturer for the Education Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions. She is also involved with the programming at the Met Breuer. Page graduated from Yale University and was a double major in Art History and Economics and has worked at the Yale Center for British Art. At Columbia, she received a PhD with a focus in American Art, while her minor field was Renaissance painting, specifically Leonardo da Vinci. Her dissertation, “Scribner’s Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World,” explores the significant expansion of illustration in print media during the 1870s.

Accommodations

Four Seasons Hotels – Kyoto

Four Seasons Hotels – Osaka

Four Seasons Hotels – Tokyo at Otemachi

Royal Park Hotel Takamatsu

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