Tokyo | British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Opera | American Museum of Natural History | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | photography | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | University of Tokyo | Metropolitan Police Service | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | Museum of Contemporary Art | Field Museum of Natural History | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Imperial War Museum | Smithsonian American Art Museum | National Museum | National Museum of Natural History |
Two of his photographs were within the collection of the mining engineer Benjamin Smith Lyman and are now within the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.