Its garden has been first in the world for 22 years according to an American magazine; it never closes.
The founder, Adachi Zenkō, a local businessman, opened the museum in 1970 to show together his collection of modern Japanese painting (about 2,000 works, 120 of them by Yokoyama Taikan) and a garden of fifty thousand tsubo (about 165,000 square metres including the shakkei, the landscape borrowed from the hills in the background) divided into a dry landscape garden, a moss garden and a garden of white pine and white sand. Since 2003, every year, the American magazine Sukiya Living Magazine has ranked it the best garden in Japan: in 2024 that made twenty-two years in a row. The garden never closes, not a single day, all year round.
Private museum in Yasugi, three stars in the Michelin Green Guide Japan. The collection centres on modern nihonga painting, with Yokoyama Taikan at its core.
ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:30 (April–September) or 9:00–17:00 (October–March), every day of the year. Adult ticket 2,500 yen, university students 2,000, high school 1,000, junior high/elementary 500. Free shuttle bus from JR Yasugi.
🚉 鷺の湯温泉・足立美術館前 · 3 min walk
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