Hibiya Park in central Tokyo will host an open-air art event from 13 to 29 November, with free entry from 9am to 9pm daily. Hibiya Art Park 2026, subtitled Timeless Phenomena, is directed by architect Yuko Nagayama, with Kensho Tanihara as curatorial collaborator, and forms part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Flowers and Light Movement, returning for a second year after its 2025 debut.

The theme takes the park itself as its starting point. Opened in 1903, Hibiya Park has watched Tokyo change for more than 120 years, and the event asks visitors to notice what is usually overlooked in city life: nature and living creatures, people's daily routines, and the different timescales that overlap in a public space. Three artists were invited to respond to that brief.

Takashi Kuribayashi, known for installations and video works on the boundaries between nature and people, the visible and the invisible, brings his ongoing inquiry into the relationship between the natural environment and social structures. Rui Sasaki works principally in glass, using the transparent material to hold memories and traces of place, time and the natural world. Taiki Yokote has unveiled plans for All We Imagine as Light, Gathered Around a Light, a slowly moving sculpture set among flowers in the park's plaza, built from industrial products and leisure sheets actually used in the park.

A participatory performance by artist So Hanasaki, titled Bouquet Exchange, will run on 14, 21, 22 and 28 November. Visitors write a wish and a prayer for a stranger on a bouquet's wrapping paper, leave the bouquet at a small flower stall, and take home one made by another participant. A food market with stalls from Blue Bottle Coffee, Toraya, TruffleBAKERY and DAN Curry will also operate in the park during the event.