Hiroshima Museum of Art

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Hiroshima Bank opens it in 1978 for its centenary: inside, Van Gogh's garden.

In the main hall hangs ‘Daubigny's Garden’, one of the last paintings Van Gogh made before he died in 1890. Around it, about eighty works by French Impressionists and Japanese painters in the Western style fill a few rooms, and on weekdays anyone who stops in front of a painting has nobody pushing them along. One review puts it like this: ‘even without anything else, you're glad to stop here’.

The museum opens on 3 November 1978, a commemorative project of Hiroshima Bank for its own centenary: the rebuilt city needed, the official site says, ‘a place of spiritual joy and tranquillity’, and that is still the theme it carries, ‘For love and tranquillity’ (愛とやすらぎのために). The permanent collection runs through Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Picasso and the School of Paris, down to modern Japanese painting in the Western style and traditional Japanese painting.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00, last entry at 16:30; closed on Mondays, except during special exhibitions, when it stays open. Permanent collection: adults 1,000 yen, university students 700, groups 800. The special exhibition ‘Coffee and Artists’, from 3 October 2026 to 11 January 2027, costs 2,200 yen for adults, 1,000 for high school and university students, 500 for younger children; after that date the price changes with the next exhibition. There is no car park for the general public, reviews point out.

🚉 Kenchō-mae · 4 min walk

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