Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

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The sculpture garden, library and restaurant can be used without a ticket.

It is where the collections ended up when the Kamakura site closed in 2016. ⚠️ There is no permanent exhibition: you go for the current exhibition, and if it does not interest you the trip is wasted. But the sculpture garden, with pieces by Isamu Noguchi, the art library, the bookshop and the restaurant overlooking the sea can be used without paying anything, and from the garden a path leads down to the beach.

The third site of the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1951 in Kamakura as Japan's first public museum of modern art. The Hayama building dates from 2003; the collection as a whole exceeds ten thousand works.

ℹ️ Open 9:30–17:00, last entry at 16:30. Closed on Mondays (unless it is a public holiday), from 29 December to 3 January and during exhibition changeovers. ⚠️ **The price depends on the exhibition**: from 250 yen for the collection exhibition alone to 1,200 for the main exhibition, which also includes the other one; 100 yen for high school students, free up to junior high, concessions over 65. You can get there **only by bus** from Zushi or Shin-Zushi.

🚉 葉山 · 7 min walk

Sources: moma.pref.kanagawa.jp · moma.pref.kanagawa.jp · en.japantravel.com

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