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Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan's - indeed, one of the world's - most famous artists. She is best known for what she calls "infinity nets," which are polka dot patterns, often in vivid colors, and which stream with hypnotic but never monotonous repetitiveness into what really does feel like infinity. Yayoi Kusama says that they are inspired by the patterns she has been seeing in her head since childhood.

Entering infinity: the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Shinjuku, Tokyo.Yayoi Kusama fans have just gotten a huge new dose of the now 88-year-old artist's worldview with the opening this Sunday past of the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Bentencho, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo.

My partner and I cycled there on Sunday to check it out. We knew we wouldn't be able to get in, because reservations to the museum are online-only, and have to be made weeks in advance if you're to get even a slim chance of procuring a coveted ticket.
Fans of different generations at the newly opened Yayoi Kusama MuseumBut it was a nice cool fall day, with patches of sunlight breaking through the high, light cloud - great for a cycle to Shinjuku, particularly because we'd never been to the Bentencho district of the ward before.

We quickly worked out why we'd never been to Bentencho before - it's a drab, ugly dump of a district, so much so that it doesn't real feel typical of Tokyo, but more like a forgotten suburb of an industrial satellite town.

But we quickly located the new museum - a gleamin...