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Top 10 Art Museums in Kobe, Kinki
Famous for its luscious beef and crisp, pure sake, the Japanese port of Kobe is a thriving metropolitan city with an international feel. The sake-brewing season runs from October through April, and that's the best time to take a tour of a kura (the Japanese word for brewery). Visit the Hakutsure Sake Brewery Museum year-round. Naturally, the nightlife here is prime perfection.
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1. Rokko Yamanoue Museum Sawaru Museum
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
"Rokko art Museum" is art museums for everybody. there is no doubt for seeing and touching without any permission. our museum all of collection can touch. also small children are easy and safely touch on all of them.
2. UROKO HOUSE & OBSERVATION GALLERY
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4.0 based on 134 reviews
The residence with most Western influence of the Kitano Ijinkan houses in Kobe. Covered in a natural stone called slate, its resemblance to the scales of a fish gave the house the nickname of “UROKO HOUSE” (House of the Scales). Not only in the outside, the whole building has a distinctive elaborated design that makes it part of the National Designated Registered Cultural Properties of Japan. The building holds a collection of renowned porcelain including “Royal Worcester”, “Meissen” and “Royal Copenhagen”. There are also handmade glassware exhibitions. The sunroom, with views of the Port of Kobe, is said to be where traders watched over their boats entering and leaving the port when the Port was opened. In the garden there is a “Calydonian Boar” (nicknamed Porcellino), which is believed to bring you good luck if you rub its snout. Next to UROKO HOUSE lies the “OBSERVATION GALLERY” where many modern, Japanese paintings are exhibited.
Reviewed By sharonhW264WM - Las Vegas, United States
Originally built near the harbor, this magnificent mansion was transferred to its current location on the hillside to serve as a posh residence for foreigners. It looks like a castle and was named the “Fish Scale House” because its walls are made of small, round, overlapping slate tiles that resemble fish scales. It was the first to open to the public and is the best known and most splendid of the Ijinkan (Western style) houses remaining in the Kitano-Yamate district. The period furniture was authentic, but most impressive was the outstanding collection of fine European porcelain (Meissen, Royal Copenhagen, Royal Worcester, and others) displayed. The balcony provided amazing views of Kobe through beautiful lead glass windows, and displayed a wonderful dragon sleigh and an antique music box that played lovely classical music. The Uroko Museum of Art next door provided interesting models of various Ijinkan houses. It was definitely worth the steep walk up the hill to see this wonderful mansion!
3. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
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4.0 based on 190 reviews
Reviewed By Budjetsetter - Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
A stroll around the building and its interiors is in itself a tour of architectural beauty. Designed by famed Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the museum speaks of Japanese and foreign modern art in their finest. Many sculptures adorn the premises often set against the mountain and the sea backdrops in the north and in the south, respectively. There are many spots of great photography. Inside, among the most notable and a late added building between the three original buildings is a dedicated Tadao Ando Gallery filled with very informative narrative of his life and works. It feels like a Tadao Ando shrine once you get inside!
4. BB Plaza Museum of Art
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
The BB Plaza Museum of Art was opened on July 7. The collection introduces approximately one thousand works, on a broad range of themes, and special exhibitions are held by the museum about three times a year. -About the Museum’s Collection- The museum houses distinctive works of art primarily by leading Japanese painters HIGASHIYAMA Kaii, TAKAYAMA Tastsuo, and KAYAMA Matazo, as well as Japanese painters who studied in Paris, including UMEHARA Ryuzaburo, YASUI Sotaro, and KOISO Ryohei. Also on display are paintings and prints by Renoir and Fauvism-era artists Marquet and Vlaminck, and Ecole de Paris artists Utrillo, Laurencin, Chagal, and others. The museum also houses sculptures by Rodin and Bourdelle. In recent years, new works have been added from Kobe-based artists, including AMITANI Yoshiro and NISHIMURA Isao, as well as Gutai group artists UEMAE Chiyu and HORIO Sadaharu, and IZUMI Shigeru of the Demokrato Artists Association.
5. Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
6. Y+T MOCA (Yokoo Tadanori Musuem of Comtemporary Art)
7. Kobe Connection Art Museum
8. Kosetsu Museum of Art
9. KOBE TrickArt
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3.5 based on 29 reviews
Look at it, touch it, take pictures! A unique amusement spot in the Ijinkan where you can get inside the paintings and experience works that incorporate optical illusions. It is divided into six areas where you can take in plenty of stunning pictures: “Kobe Original Series”, with a collection of typical works from Kobe; “Adventure World”, “the Illusion World”, “Brain Training”, “Masterpieces” and “the Maze”. The house is a wooden building from the late Meiji period. After the war it was used as the Consulate of Panama.
10. Tor Road Livings Gallery
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