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Japan Ukiyo-e Museum

Travel Guide - Japan Ukiyo-e Museum

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In both quality and quantity, the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum is one of the most prominent wood-block print museums in Japan. The 10,000 piece collection includes calligraphy and wood-block printed books. The museum also contains many historically valuable wood-block prints, ranging from the early examples of the Ukiyo-e art to contemporary woodblock prints. These art works were collected by Sakai family spending 200 years. The family was also a patron of the great Ukiyo-e master Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige).

Opening HoursOpening Hours

  • 10:00 - 17:00 *admission until 30 minutes before closing

ClosedClosed

  • Mondays
  • December 28 - January 3

Price / Entrance FeePrice / Entrance Fee

  • 1,200 yen (General, Adult)
  • 600 yen

Access / Public TransportAccess / Public Transport

  • 7 minutes taxi ride from Matsumoto Station on the JR lines or Alpico Kotsu Kamikochi Line
  • 15 minutes walk from Oniwa Station on the Alpico Kotsu Kamikochi Line

Address / LocationAddress / Location

  • 2206-1, Shimadachi Koshiba, Matsumoto-shi, Nagano, 390-0852
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Mayor Ho-Yee 🔥Fyre Isle🔥 @feline_dacat - 2020-03-23
When we were last in Japan, we missed an ukiyo-e exhibition about cats. Now this museum is posting pics and it’s gr… https://t.co/ycpTTrBk9V
All Japan Tours @AllJapanTours - 2020-03-04
Katsushika Hokusai famously created the 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' ukiyo-e series. See his original works at… https://t.co/OgVQgclZZu
Kanpai! Japan @KanpaiJapan - 2020-01-14
The Sumida Hokusai Museum - The ukiyo-e master’s collection https://t.co/iph0TRiHX6 [New post on Kanpai #Japan] https://t.co/huUuj4GBHg
Tavon @tavoncooke - 2020-01-12
Ukiyo-e exhibit featuring David Bowie.

#bowie #DavidBowie #ukiyo #japan #japanese #museum #wien #Vienna #Austria… https://t.co/l5nTa5Rcv4
Jonni Ooooo! @Thenorthernlad7 - 2019-12-31
Amazing Japanese ukiyo-e wood prints. #japan #ukiyoe #brightonartgallery @ Brighton Museum & Art Gallery https://t.co/rvfk6BzDCr
Emily Olive @EmilyOlive5 - 2019-12-11
Museum Open House : Made in Japan | Ukiyo-e Prints - Discover News Television
#museum #openhouse #museumopenhouse… https://t.co/yBehoED72V
Jorge Rodríguez @jrdelalamo - 2019-12-11
‘Last Ukiyo-e’ Exhibition at Ota Memorial Museum of Art Sheds Light on Meiji-Era Treasures https://t.co/4W1WEV0lQz… https://t.co/tXIuhdSStR
KA WAI @genghis_ka_wai - 2019-12-07
Went to Ukiyo-e museum today and really loved all the art, but halfway thru realized half the paintings were of imp… https://t.co/EJyrbxr8EW
MYRIAM MORALES @MYRIAMMORALES81 - 2019-12-01
'Last Ukiyo-e' Exhibition at Ota Memorial Museum of Art Sheds Light on Meiji-Era Treasures | JAPAN Forward https://t.co/LBpnKuZFdg
内藤泰朗 @naityas - 2019-11-20
‘Last Ukiyo-e’ Exhibition at Ota Memorial Museum of Art Sheds Light on Meiji-Era Treasures
https://t.co/wwzBwOswne #JAPANForward
Brian Imagawa @rocketdog632 - 2019-11-13
An Ukiyo-e shop inside the Edo Museum. Ukiyo-e were like the comics and advertising posters of the era, sumo wrestl… https://t.co/Nkt06e2jkA
thewanderingwelsh @wanderinwelsh - 2019-11-06
Ukiyoe Small Museum in Kyoto features Japanese woodblock prints. Shown on the sign outside, the museum doesn't have… https://t.co/N1gd6h5B6k
Hammer Museum @hammer_museum - 2019-10-31
Hiroshige is best known for his landscape prints, a subject matter atypical of ukiyo-e works, which tended to focus… https://t.co/xQCvJhvzZp
Naomi Daw @Naomi_Daw - 2019-09-26
I’ve had a sneak peek of the ‘Floating Worlds: Japanese Woodcuts’ exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery today… https://t.co/5EAvoe4ouv
Taigataro @geisha_official - 2019-09-17
@miwa_kazune @tensame It is very beautiful! I have always wanted to visit Japan and go to an Art Museum! I like Uki… https://t.co/2ugtfYaLgd
kabujiro Kutsumoto @KabujiroK - 2019-09-11
Busy sketching things while travelling Japan.

This is based off of a print I saw at the Ukiyo-e Museum in Matsumot… https://t.co/9ZpEUUyvqN
Yukiko Wilson @LoccaOliver - 2019-09-09
New blog post on Japanese Ukiyo-e Wood-block prints exhibition at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery & more!!… https://t.co/Y1pROkE0Bv
Broomhall House @BroomhallHouse - 2019-08-29
This is one of our exclusive woodblock prints from one of Japan’s most globally famous artists; Katsushika Hokusai,… https://t.co/zyiSRrVFZn
Sydney Solís @RisingSolis - 2019-08-27
Made me so happy viewing at the #Osaka Museum of HistoryThe Wonderful World of Cats in Ukiyo-e: #Cats Depicted by R… https://t.co/ii4ZZwajSa
Alan Summers @haikutec - 2019-08-21
@bristolmuseum Bristol Museum & Art Gallery has a collection of some 500 ‘floating world pictures’ (ukiyo-e) which… https://t.co/3Is1mZJvW1
Being Kansai @BeingKansai - 2019-06-28
The Wonderful world of Cats in Ukiyo-e at Osaka Museum of History from 7/27-9/8/2019 #art #cats #Osaka #Japan… https://t.co/D4nJ5pvwJV
curious ordinary @curiousordinary - 2019-06-05
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Jenevieve Van-Veda @VanVeda - 2019-05-01
The Life of #Japanese #Women in Ukiyo-e (Shoto Museum of Art) | #Japan Living Arts by Steve Beimel… https://t.co/fyhQAc05RX
Gabriella Vitos @Gavit - 2019-04-26
From the playful Ukiyo-e collection #museum #art #japan #traveler #globetrotter #culture #photography https://t.co/SNiLqEMLcU
Being Kansai @BeingKansai - 2019-04-03
“Compete in Beauty”: Ukiyo-e paintings exhibition at the Museum of Kyoto from April 27-June 9 2019 #kyoto #art… https://t.co/Fktj4YiNwR
Alma ⚰️ @mttbrandhime - 2019-03-30
6: My dream holiday is to go to Japan and look at the Ukiyo-e museum and walk around Kyoto and eat great food!!!
HeadOvMetal @headovmetal - 2019-02-25
Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin is 1st museum retrospective of renowned tattoo artist and surveys Hardy’s life in art th… https://t.co/XzLSAdUXej
Utrip @Utrippers - 2019-02-14
Dedicated to the life works of the most famous Ukiyo-e artist, Katsushika Hokusai, visitors can take in his brillia… https://t.co/8xOb3GI19D
山崎 chu @misteaky - 2019-02-14
planning japan trip with bae

rapha: look, we can go to this ukiyo-e museum after visiting the castle
me: omg look… https://t.co/QJZU0iGTz7
michellehartney @michellehartney - 2019-01-23
Recently I was alerted to an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago that presents Roger Weston’s collection of… https://t.co/uYRy3RmoA9

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