Miho Museum

Information

This museum is built so as to melt into the mountains of Shigaraki. To preserve its environment, more than 80% of the building is underground. And the exhibits are as impressive as the architecture. Works on display are selected from a collection more than 2,000, and include pieces of from the Nara and Heian periods (8th – 12th centuries).

Opening Hours

10:00 - 17:00 *admission until 16:00

Closed

Irregular

Price / Entrance Fee

1,100 yen (General, Adult)
800 yen (Student)
300 yen (Child)

Access / Public Transport

50 minutes from JR Ishiyama Station by the bus bound for Miho-Hakubutsukan. Get off at the last stop.

Address / Location

300, Shigarakicho Tashiro, Koka-shi, Shiga, 529-1814

Tweets

Chai-anne Jackson @holeography - 2020-03-31: Louis Vuitton Cruise 2018
Miho Museum near Kyoto https://t.co/dIYnIBC316
Stephen Page @SmpageSteve - 2020-03-31: This book is definately on my TBR list, Miho Nonaka. @ashlandpp https://t.co/l2655EuPGN https://t.co/6NE4VqxtYP
ReliefJournal @ReliefJournal - 2020-03-28: #ReliefRecommends The Museum of Small Bones by Miho Nonaka, published by @ashlandpp - this gorgeous new collection… https://t.co/gZJtIIVJYR
grogro @groggy69y - 2020-03-26: The Louis Vuitton Cruise 2018 Fashion Show at the Miho Museum near Kyoto, Japan
https://t.co/AtxKWFMpEy
Joy Is In Mourning For The Opera @datadivajf - 2020-03-22: I've mentioned a few times that I'd like to go to that museum in Japan that's halfway up Mt. Miho.

They just start… https://t.co/5HNfJtfJGd
Jenni Simmons @jennisimmons - 2020-03-19: Marked as to-read: Museum of Small Bones by Miho Nonaka https://t.co/AQxZ0qnmbA
Ashland Poetry Press @ashlandpp - 2020-03-17: Newly released -- Miho Nonaka's THE MUSEUM OF SMALL BONES. In times like these, we should be looking to poetry. Fin… https://t.co/lr8S6C8stU
Shumei International @shumeiintl - 2020-03-17: Shumei International actively nurtures an awareness and understanding of art’s power and significance through exhib… https://t.co/nJSD3dPFpi
Araceli Rego @AraceliRego - 2020-02-19: Achaemenid (the first Persian Empire) Golden Goblet With Bulls -- Circa 500 BCE -- Miho Museum,Japan https://t.co/7Av7fo3lgO
paz 🍁 TEN TOKYO DOME 🥳 420bpm @pitchcontour - 2020-02-17: @chukachukachoo one of my all time favorite runway collections. hiiiiiighly recommend watching the video. louis vui… https://t.co/ApmEjntkon
MKKKKKK @VN86549040 - 2020-02-14: @Tsukiko23361006 @BARDofJAPAN @miho_mineral @Bigthin83310115 We have war museum here, and it's a terrible scene, an… https://t.co/A4pzhETfsz
Michael Del Piero @delpieromichael - 2020-02-04: BE DARING | “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide | t… https://t.co/zo1vCN47KL
Daphne Mir is Available for Hire! @daphne_mir - 2020-02-02: @schwa Are you at the Miho Museum?
JCR @Alabandine_ - 2020-02-02: Mosaic glass and decorative plaques, 1st century B.C.E./C.E. The majority of the decorative panel motifs were widel… https://t.co/mYLJ9YTqI4
JCR @Alabandine_ - 2020-02-02: Mosaic glass and decorative plaques, 1st century B.C.E./C.E. The majority of the decorative panel motifs were widel… https://t.co/oAyTxlb2er
クレア⚢ @QingTing312 - 2020-02-02: Miho’s bike was stolen :/

She put a sticker that says “#loveclare” from the Clare Museum in Ireland. They don’t ma… https://t.co/fK6Dv37Pw0
Cem Sertoglu 🤖 @csertoglu - 2020-01-26: @chrismichel I second the Ritz-Carlton.

Also, Miho Museum is worth a side trip - about an hour’s drive from Kyoto.
Araceli Rego @AraceliRego - 2020-01-18: Late Roman Bronze Bust of a Priest with Silver Inlaid Eyes . Bronze and sliver, 3rd-4th century C.E. Text and image… https://t.co/OMxxr3K6oq
CARAA @CARAA_Center - 2020-01-14: Achaemenid Silver Bowl with Gold Inlay
Silver with gold inlay, 6th century B.C.E.
Diam. 9 cm. Miho Museum https://t.co/PeV9XNOcwS
Karim Lediwa @KarimLediwa - 2020-01-14: @indyfromspace Illicit antiquities machine #2:
Sophisticated cycle from poor looters..to middle-men..to rich greedy… https://t.co/i49EyrAFMm
Araceli Rego @AraceliRego - 2020-01-09: Achaemenid (the first Persian Empire) Golden Goblet With Bulls -- Circa 500 BCE -- Miho Museum,Japan https://t.co/w6gOd8aMNt
mattio ☻ @mattiopattio - 2020-01-07: Tomoko Miho - Friend or Foe poster for the National Air and Space Museum, 1976 https://t.co/hgyO3PEnlU
daphne mir @daphne_mir - 2020-01-04: @thacher @lauraehall Oh! Also the Miho Museum outside Kyoto with architecture by I.M.Pei is wonderful. Take the wal… https://t.co/1aZ5tqN0mu
CARAA @CARAA_Center - 2019-12-22: Sculpture of Deer In Lacquered Wood, China, Eastern Zhou Dynasty (4th-3rd Century B.C.), Miho Museum, Kyoto. https://t.co/kzE7c8zp34
MuseumToday @MuseumToday - 2019-12-22: Hiroshige - Distant View of Miho, Ejiri (1833) https://t.co/GU3jetssxP
kyle @kylefaulknerr - 2019-12-16: i’m literally enraged! my main goal of going to japan was to see my friends and visit the miho museum and kusama ga… https://t.co/yaUnwmigXJ
Len Green @pedasigreen_len - 2019-12-15: Last day...Miho Museum, Japan. https://t.co/sffJVrJEXE
The Real Japan @TheRealJapan1 - 2019-12-11: VIDEO: Electric Shuttle at Miho Museum, Shiga Prefecture

Looking every bit the villain's hidden headquarters in a… https://t.co/CNMuaHPOdg
daphne mir // ダフニミヤ @daphne_mir - 2019-12-07: I went to the Miho Museum today outside Kyoto! Here’s some unedited phone shots I’m fond of. Architecture by I. M.… https://t.co/ehZ4TCS4n2
マイルド奇兵隊 @sfa38BmAhgOhnSU - 2019-12-07: MIHO MUSEUMへ🎵 https://t.co/D4m2vbQjTU
Cassandra Farrin 🐥 @CassaCassaCassa - 2019-12-05: @NotLikeFreddy If I'm remembering right, I went to Miho Museum (INCREDIBLE) and then spent the night at Koya San. T… https://t.co/fWqzy9j0PS
Beatrycze Nagrodzka @barring_maria - 2019-12-04: Panel of the mortuary bed from the Miho Museum with the Turk hunting scene (Miho Museum, 1997, p. 250, fig.C). https://t.co/D1PVwGrP93