Japan Ukiyo-e Museum

Ukiyo-e Museum

The nearest train station is Ōniwa from which you have to walk for about 15min. Alternatively you can walk there from Matsumoto station which takes about 45min. I was really looking forward to visit t...

Lots of original work - fantastic museum.

We really visited the Hokusai Museum in Obuse and were eager to check out some more work by ukiyo-e artists. This museum is beautifully designed to allow full focus on the large range of prints. There...

amazing art, where is the rest of it?

we walked here from the dormy inn. 50 minutes there, lovely autumn day. had thought there might be a bus, but no luck. expecting to see the largest collection of woodblock prints in the world, but ...

Relatively high price for small collection

This museum has one of the biggest collections ukiyo-e in the world, but to exhibit them is difficult, due to fragility. So they exhibit a very very small collection each time. While we do understand ...

Very disappointing, especially for the price. SKIP IT.

I took a city bus to this off-the-beaten-path museum and had high hopes. But I was very disappointed. I was expecting more ukiyo-e paintings, but there was only one large room of unremarkable painting...