Museum · Mitake Gorge / Ome

Gyokudo Art Museum 玉堂美術館

Museum of the Japanese painter Kawai Gyokudo on the banks of Mitake Gorge, with a celebrated dry landscape garden.

Hours10:00-17:00 Mar-Nov (last entry 16:30); 10:00-16:30 Dec-Feb (last entry 16:00)

ClosedMondays (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday), New Year holidays

PriceAdult: ¥600
University/high/junior high: ¥500
Elementary: ¥300

Getting thereMitake Station (JR Ome Line), 3 min

Time needed45 min

Best timeAutumn leaves in Mitake Gorge (November)

Address1-75 Mitake, Ome, Tokyo 198-0174

Websitegyokudo.jp

About

Kawai Gyokudo spent his last years in Mitake, and this museum opened in 1961 to show his landscape paintings of rural Japan. The building by architect Yoshida Isoya frames a raked-gravel garden that ranks highly in Japanese garden surveys, and a reconstruction of the painter's studio is on view. The Tama River gorge walking path runs right past the door.

Highlights

Landscape paintings by Kawai Gyokudo
Dry garden designed with Yoshida Isoya
Reconstructed painting studio
Set on the Mitake Gorge riverside trail

Tips

Walk the Mitake Gorge path from Sawai to Mitake and stop here
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