Art Museum Spots in Kanagawa Area

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Hakone Grasunomori Museum (Hakone Venetian Glass Museum)

4.0

882 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Sengokuhara 940-48

Located in Sengokuhara district, Hakone, the Hakone Grasunomori Museum (Hakone Venetian Glass Museum) is Japan’s first museum dedicated to Venetian glass. It actually comprises two museums: the Venetian Glass Museum itself, which has on display around 100 masterpieces of the delicate, finely-wrought Venetian glass for which there was a vogue among the noble families of Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, and the Modern Glass Museum, which displays Venetian glass dating from the 19th century onwards. Particularly worth seeing is the approximately 10-meter-long crystal glass arch over the bridge between the garden and the Museums; the arch is made from around 160,000 pieces of crystal glass, which sparkle in the breeze. The Hakone Grasunomori Museum offers glassmaking experience activities (including sandblasting, etc.), with participants being able to make their own pieces to take home as a souvenir.

We dined in the restaurant for lunch. The chicken wasn’t cooked well, but the rest of the food was very good and dessert was especially good with cheesecake, panna cotta and dense chocolate cake...
Yokosuka Museum of Art

4.5

196 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Kamoi 4-1

This museum is located in Yokosuka City's Kannonzaki Park. In addition to the various exhibition areas, there is a Mountain Plaza and an Ocean Plaza facing the forest and the sea, letting guests view the ocean or do some forest bathing. The museum annex and the Rokuro Taniuchi Hall displays work by Rokuro Taniuchi, an artist who does the cover of the Weekly Shincho magazine. Events such as art markets and workshops are held from time to time.

The Art museum focuses on contemporary art in Japan. This includes artists of new and old. Allow about two hours to see everything that the museum offers. Wear walking shoes because the art work...
Yokohama Museum of Art

4.0

307 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Nishi-ku Minatomirai 3-4-1

This art museum is notable for its distinctive symmetrical stonework exterior and for the open atrium of its grand gallery. In addition to seven exhibit halls, the museum boasts an art information center with a collection of more than 110,000 books, artist workshops, and more, making it one of the country's largest art museums. The museum, which has a collection of more than 12,000 works of modern and contemporary art, holds a wide variety of exhibitions. It is located a three-minute walk from Minatomirai Station on the Minatomirai Line.

Thinking thatthis would be a good museum to see and learn from the areas history, well this was the plan. The lines were extremly long, but we had walked all this way, we were tired and wanted to go...
Lalique Museum Hakone

4.5

280 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Sengokuhara 186-1

An art museum located in Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo County, Kanagawa Prefecture. The museum’s collection consists of some 1,500 pieces created by French jeweler and glass artisan René Lalique. The museum’s standing exhibition displays approximately 230 select items from amongst this collection. Visitors can view pioneering masterpieces which anticipated modern jewelry trends, perfume bottles, flower vases, and building ornamentation produced by Lalique in the latter stage of his career. There’s also an actual Orient Express train car which was decorated by Lalique and which visitors can actually see inside.

This museum features the work of Rene Lalique who produced amazing art pieces made from glass. The museum itself is a little hard to get to but definitely easy enough and on the bus line. I’ve...
Narukawa Art Museum

4.0

220 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Motohakone 570

It is a museum built on the banks of Hakone’s Lake Ashi. Since the museum opened in 1988, its collection with its focus on contemporary Japanese paintings has surpassed 4,000 pieces and even now continues to increase. The museum is among the first to collect and exhibit works by not just famous artists but also works by artists who show promise for the future. From the one-sided 50-meter-wide picture window which stretches out inside the building, one can look out over the large panorama of Lake Ashi, Hakone. You can also enjoy tea and desserts from precious fine art handicraft serving dishes by Koji Ishii and Ryo Mikami in the museum’s “Kisetsufu” (Seasonal Wind) tea lounge.

A very nice site and building. Note-the museum is open at 9am, cafe at 10. A limited amount of artwork on display and much of it not particularly impressive.
Hakone Museum of Art

4.5

244 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Goura 1300

This is the most historical museum in Hakone. The museum exhibition mainly focuses on Japanese “Yakimono” (earthenware) from the Jomon period through to the Edo period such as vases and pots produced from the Kamakura through to the Muromachi period in the six sites where the production of ceramic ware began in ancient Japan. On the grounds the scenery can be enjoyed from season to season as there are such attractions as the “moss garden” which is colored with moss and autumn colors, “the Japanese clover path” which is at its best in September and also the Chinese style “bamboo garden”. It is also famous for its autumnal leaf display, especially in November when the garden’s leaves change color all at once.

Lovely historical pottery and ceramics. Not big but thoughtful, well displayed pieces. The big surprise is the exquisite garden surrounding it. The moss garden especially.
Okada Museum of Art

4.5

265 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Kowakudani 493-1

An art museum located in Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo County, Kanagawa Prefecture. The museum has five floors of exhibition space, making it one of the largest art museums in Hakone. Focusing primarily on ancient to modern East Asian pottery and early modern to modern Japanese painting, including Japan’s leading artists Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Utamaro, Ito Jakuchu, and Yokoyama Taikan. The museum exhibits some 450 separate works of art. There’s also a café, footbath, garden, and museum shop, giving visitors the chance to experience both art and the seasonal beauty of Hakone up close.

箱根を代表する美術館の一つ。敷地は大きく分けて美術館と庭園の2つに構成されている。美術館は、主に日本・中国・韓国の東アジアの美術品が展示されている。時代は紀元前のものから近現代のものまで幅広く、しかも展示数が極めて多い。展示品はいずれも一級品、もしくは歴史的に極めて価値のあるものばかりで、特に陶器や青磁を始めとする器類の展示は目を見張るものがある。説明も読まず簡単に展示品を鑑賞するだけでも、全て...
The Hakone Open-Air Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Ninotaira 1121

This was Japan’s first open-air Museum which was founded in 1969. Located on the grounds of a 70,000 meters squared premises with Hakone’s nature as a backdrop, the museum has a permanent display of approximately 120 masterpieces by modern and contemporary sculptors. Such large scale works of art couldn’t be displayed but for the outdoor space; there are also works of art which children can enter and play in, and you can touch the pieces of art as much as you want. At the Picasso Pavilion, there is the world’s top collection of 300 plus works which are open to the public. The hot spring foot bath which flows from the source is also popular. Alight at the Hakone Tozan Railway at Chokoku-no-Mori Station, from which it is a two-minute walk to the museum.
Taro Okamoto Museum of Art (Kawasaki City)

4.5

99 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kawasakishi Tama-ku Masugata 7-1-5

Located in Tama Ward, Kawasaki City, this museum mainly displays the work of Taro Okamoto that he donated to the municipality. It hosts a permanent exhibition room that surveys the development of his work, including art, writing, and tactile pieces, as well as a temporary exhibition room that introduces new artists. There is also a 30-meter-high Mother Tower that's a symbol of the facility. The nearest station is Mukogaoka-Yuen Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line.

A small museum which collects and exhibits the work of Taro Okamoto. If youve art and/or like the work of Taro Okamoto, then you need to visit this small museum. There are original sketches...
Sogo Museum of Art

4.0

68 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Nishi-ku Takashima 2-18-1 Sogo Yokohama Store 6F

The Sogo Museum of Art is located on the sixth floor of the Sogo Yokohama Department Store in Yokohama's Nishi Ward. It was the first department store based museum in Japan to be based on the Museum Law. Its holdings include about 200 oils and watercolors by the Western-style painter Shintaro Suzuki, and it exhibits art in a wide variety of genres, including Western-style art, traditional Japanese-style art, folk crafts, sculpture, prints, books, and photos from Japan and overseas.

I had a nice time checking out all the artwork on display. It was not all that big and ran through it pretty quick. Probably a bit expensive for the relatively small exhibit. I picked up a couple...
Enoura Observatory

4.5

38 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Odawara-shi Enoura 362-1

This is a singularly unique experience, and, perhaps more importantly, a singularly unique Japanese experience. Stunning architecture at the precise location where all of natures splendor can be...
Pola Museum of Art

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Sengokuhara Kozukayama 1285

The museum exhibits approximately 9,500 works of art collected over a number of decades by Mr. Tsuneshi Suzuki, the owner of the Paula Orbis group known for Paula cosmetics. The collection of Impressionists’ work is also said to be the greatest in both quality and quantity in Japan. The architecture overflows with a translucent quality due to the abundant amount of glass used which is a feature of the museum, and art can be appreciated in the abundant greenery and light which shines in through the enormous picture windows. A promenade was opened in 2013 so you can stroll at your ease in the middle of nature while listening to the birds singing.
Yugawara Art Museum

4.0

38 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunyugawaramachi Miyakami 623-1

Yugawara Art Museum is located in the town of Yugawara in Ashigarashimo County. It consists of a section containing works by artists who had studios in Yugawara as well as a section devoted to the works of Reiji Hiramatsu, a contemporary artist who paints in traditional Japanese style. A rest area in the exhibition galleries overlooks a lovely Japanese garden, with seasonal views of plum, cherry, and other blossoms as well as autumn leaves. The museum also contains a coffee shop and a shop where visitors can buy souvenirs of Yugawara.

県道７５号沿い。割引券の提示で観覧料金１００円割引。プリントアウトお忘れなく。モネ財団から貴重な「モネの睡蓮の株」を譲られ育成しているという平松礼二画伯をはじめ、湯河原や熱海所縁の画家の作品が充実。３階アトリエや庭園は撮影可能。モネ押しは一度足を運んだ方がいいかもね。リゾート地の何チャッテ美術館ならぬ温泉地の何チャッテ美術館以上の価値はあります。
Living National Treasures Museum

4.0

39 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunyugawaramachi Chuou 3-16-1

The Living National Treasures Museum is an art museum displaying artworks created by Japan’s Living National Treasures (persons designated as Preservers of Important Intangible Cultural Properties), with a particular focus on ceramics, but also including dolls, lacquerware, and other masterpieces. After viewing the exhibits, visitors can enjoy green tea served in tea-ware made by famous Living National Treasures (some now deceased) such as Hamada Shoji, Kaneshige Toyo, and Miwa Jusetsu.

The writer of the headline review does not seem to have got beyond the museum shop. There are three more floors of very good modern Japanese ceramics, several Roualts, a Renoir, a couple of Picasso...
Homma Yoseki Museum

4.5

16 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Yumoto 84

An art museum which displays examples of yosegi-zaiku and mokuzogan, renowned traditional woodworking crafts from Hakone. The museum's collection of some 500 pieces includes works dating back to the Edo period, and 200 are on permanent display for visitors to appreciate. The museum also holds a reservation only yosegi-zaiku workshop in which you can make your every own yosegi-zaiku coaster. In the museum's shop, you can purchase charming wooden craft goods such as trick boxes made with yosegi-zaiku.

酒田駅からの徒歩5分くらい入館料は一般1000円ですが旧本間邸・本間美術館2館共通券1,600円があるので両方訪問するかどうか事前に決めておいた方がいいです現代美術が多いのであまり興味がありませんでした展示の数もスペースも狭いですここは美術館より庭園「鶴舞園」と別荘「清遠閣」がとても素晴らしいです
Tamamura Toyoo Life Art Museum

4.0

21 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Motohakone 61

Tamamura Toyoo Life Art Museum is in Ashinoko Terrace complex facility in Motohakone, Hakone Town. It displays and sells art works of Toyoo Tamamura, an artist who paints nature and ordinary people’s lives. It is also attached to La Terrazza, an Italian restaurant offering clay-oven baked pizza and fresh gelato.

昨年秋、芦ノ湖のホテルに滞在する前に時間があり、芦ノ湖沿いを歩いていたら、キレイなテラスがあり入ってみました。テラス内に玉村豊男さんのライフアートミュージアムがあり、水彩画作品の展示会を見ることができました(無料)。花や野菜、ブドウなどの作品は見る人を優しく癒してくれます。玉村さんがコロナ禍の状況の中、アトリエにこもり描いた原画を元に製作した版画作品との事です。また、店内には玉村さんのアート商...
Hakone Museum of Photography

4.0

18 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunhakonemachi Goura 1300-432

The Hakone Museum of Photography is a small private museum that sits quietly amidst the beautiful natural scenery of the Gora district of Hakone. The Museum was founded on April 7, 2002 by the Hakone-born photographer Katsura Endo. Besides the permanent exhibitions, which consist mainly of photographs showing the natural beauty of Mt. Fuji at different times of year, the Museum also hosts themed exhibitions and special exhibitions featuring the work of leading Japanese and international avant-garde photographers. At the Museum café, visitors can enjoy herbal tea, pound cake (sponge cake), and a variety of seasonal dishes.

We stumbled across this place purely by accident, and what a treat A Quaint tucked away little cafe highlighting a renown Japanese photographer, we ordered breakfast & some coffee and while we waited...
Nakagawa Kazumasa Art Museum

4.0

18 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Ashigarashimogunmanadurumachi Manaduru 1178-1

This art museum is located along Prefectural Route 739 in Manazuru, Manazuru Town, Ashigarashimo County. It is home to works by western painter Kazumasa Nakagawa, who is representative of post-war Japan and had an atelier in this town. There are regular exhibits and themed exhibits in five exhibition rooms, where oil paintings, writings, illustrations, book bindings and about 80 works in total are displayed.

真鶴駅から県道７３９号を約３キロ。週末は道路渋滞要注意。中川一政没後30年記念「二つの中川一政美術館交流展」を見に行きました。観覧料８００円、ＪＡＦ会員証提示で１００円引。建物は公共建築百選に選ばれた如何にも役所造といった外観。茶室内に限り写真撮影可能。真鶴半島ドライブがてらついで寄りには敷居が高いかも。アトリエはコロナの影響か公開されていませんでした。
Kita-Kamakura Yoh Shomei Art Museum

4.0

19 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Yamanouchi 318-4

An art museum dedicated to collecting watercolors and oil paintings by Kumamoto Prefecture native and artist Yoh Shomei. The museum is located along the route from Kita-Kamakura Station to the Meigetsu-in Temple. Built based on the concept of an old Western-style house which was once the home to a painter and poet father, a gentle mother, a 10 year old daughter, and a five year old son, the museum looks as if it came from the pages of a storybook.

北鎌倉駅から近い、明月院に行く途中にあります。葉詳明さんの美術館で、やさしい絵がたくさん展示してあります。
Sekisho Karakuri Museum

3.5

21 Reviews

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Kanagawa Ashigarashimo-gun Hakonemachi Hakone 15

Located just a one-minute walk from the Sekisho-ato Bus Stop. Located near the Hakone Sekisho Checkpoint this art museum displays and sells primarily the local Karakuri wooden mosaic puzzle boxes made by skilled craftsmen. At first glance the Karakuri Box appears to be just a normal box or piece of art but the box holds the craftsman's wit and skill and is filled a mysterious charm. Come enjoy these top quality Karakuri Boxes made by the Karakuri Production Research Society, a group of craftsmen who have learned their skills from traditional techniques and historical assets from the Odawara and Hakone regions. The museum also features a sales corner.

Very friendly and detailed history and artifacts of Japanese Karakuri Boxes. With historical and contemporary puzzles. Many pieces had limited quantities so they are rare and can hardly be seen. The...

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Around Minato Mirai Yamashita Park / Chinatown / Motomachi Yokohama City (North) Kawasaki Kamakura Miura Peninsula Shonan Central Odawara / Manazurumachi / Yugawara Around Hakonemachi Yokohama City (South)

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Kanagawa Areas

Kanagawa prefecture acts as an extension of the Tokyo metropolis that spills over into coastal towns, most notably Yokohama city, heavily populated and known for its Chinatown and seaside attractions. Just the right distance for a day trip out of Tokyo, Kanagawa is home to some of Tokyo’s most accessible beaches, including around Kamakura, best known for its Big Buddha. Visitors can also travel a little farther afield for a weekend at Hakone onsen town.