The men's team competition was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
The score for the team was a sum of its 6 members best scores. In each of the 6 apparatuses, the top 5 scores in each category (compulsory and optional) were summed, for a total of 12 categories. 600 points were possible.