Tokugawa Museum

Information

Tokugawa Museum is on the site where a vice shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni's teahouse Kochintei was used to be. The museum exhibits varieties of expensive holdings over 30,000 collections left by the first Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and a branch of the Tokugawa clan based in Mito including Mitsukuni. In particular, the Mitsukuni's pillbox is very popular thanks to the famous TV drama show "Mito Komon".

Opening Hours

10:00 - 16:30
10:00 - 17:00 (Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays)

Closed

Mondays

Price / Entrance Fee

1,155 yen (General, Adult)
840 yen (Child)

Access / Public Transport

20 minutes from JR Mito Station by the bus bound for Sakuragawa-nishi-danchi or Sakuranomaki-koukou. Get off at Mikawa-nichome Bus stop.

Address / Location

1-1215, Migawa, Mito-shi, Ibaraki, 310-0912

Tweets

Chris Mackenzie @RaiderDrJones - 2020-01-21: looking at nearby attractions, the tokugawa art museum has the earliest rendition, in painted scroll form, of the t… https://t.co/iQG2DUUwA4
Ana-Tim Skywalker. @Socchi_Kurokawa - 2020-01-15: @TheTwistedFay @DirectorArketer Here's one from 1120-1140, the Genji-no-Monogatari Emaki, courtesy of the Tokugawa… https://t.co/uLgnH3Etq6
紡ぐ TSUMUGU: Japan Art & Culture @art_tsumugu - 2020-01-14: If you're in the #Dazaifu / #Fukuoka area, stop by the #Kyushi_National_Museum to see the gorgeous Hatsune Maki-e L… https://t.co/ezSaqS5QE4
谦慧 @ThisIsChien - 2020-01-14: @milkjellypuddin clearly points to the Kunihiro blade. Tokugawa museum that exhibits Chougi does not display him as… https://t.co/DNlkGYMEc5
Doesn’t have hakusan @sify_b - 2020-01-13: @higekiri swords in tokugawa art museum together
hakusan please come home hakusan please @sify_b - 2020-01-13: @higekiri swords in tokugawa art museum together
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm @sify_b - 2020-01-13: @higekiri swords in tokugawa art museum together
Phototravelz.com @Phototravelzcom - 2020-01-11: https://t.co/1N2IvVp4E0 Nagoya - is the fourth largest city in #Japan. Sightseeing: Nagoya Castle, Atsuta is most h… https://t.co/fQuX9pDnle
C*H*I*H*O@Jan.5th-Jan.19th 🇯🇵 @chihodueks - 2020-01-10: @osakamambo I actually have never done sightseeing in Nagoya, so I'll go to Nagoya castle and Tokugawa art museum o… https://t.co/HLemWcC1tW
strife 🗡🐉 @ 🇯🇵 @strifesodos - 2020-01-05: @Kinlyu The Tokugawa museum in Mito! Bitttt of a long journey but it was worth it to see him 😭😭
strife 🗡🐉 @ 🇯🇵 @strifesodos - 2020-01-05: Ahhh I’m at the Tokugawa museum there’s lots of micchan merch !
徳川園 @tokugawaen_ - 2019-12-22: 【About an opening period】
Our Garden is opened until the 28th within the year.
Beginning of the new year opens from… https://t.co/QGloGVNWrj
Diana LoMeiHing @LoMeiHing_Art - 2019-12-16: Qian Xuan (钱选, 1235 - 1305) late Song dynasty and early Yuan dynasty
Kyujozu Court Lady
Hanging scroll, color on si… https://t.co/lh3wjSSRom
re-how.net @rehownet2 - 2019-12-06: Kyushu National Museum Kyushu National Museum, 4F Cultural Exchange Exhibition “Touken Koto Hajime” Januar y 1st to… https://t.co/bqoJaDsTVj
Eclesis @seineclesis - 2019-11-28: Found at the Tokugawa Museum gift shop. I guess at a certain point cultural propriety is secondary to shaking otaku… https://t.co/Gn2OELp5G2
ATG @ATG213 - 2019-11-26: @rock_zack_ap1 @nitpickersworld The tokugawa museum was very interesting, thank you for the trip!
ATG @ATG213 - 2019-11-24: Went to the Tokugawa museum today with @sawakoro345 @Oprz12beth @rock_zack_ap1 and @BZRS15 . There's also a nice li… https://t.co/JZcIwJCgFK
hime｜ヒメ @ak__hime - 2019-11-24: LRT

Tokugawa Museum really did T H A T
i have and will never know peace :^) @ak__hime - 2019-11-24: LRT

Tokugawa Museum really did T H A T
juggling uni and 2 big game events at once @ak__hime - 2019-11-24: LRT

Tokugawa Museum really did T H A T
juggling uni and 2 big game events at once @ak__hime - 2019-11-24: LRT

Tokugawa Museum really did T H A T
Jingyi Li @Bec_Edo - 2019-11-17: After the Interdisciplinary Edo Workshop we all went to the Desert Museum. We’re lucky enough to see some javelinas… https://t.co/MKQYXbHof5
Lafcadio Hearn @LafcadioHearn1 - 2019-11-08: Passing through the ceremonial entrance gate at the Tokugawa residence, ancient home of the former Shoguns of Nagoy… https://t.co/6PbpQmQXw5
factsDesign @factsDesign - 2019-11-06: Genji monogatari emaki or the Tale of Genji illustrated scrolls is the earliest existing pictorial version of a nov… https://t.co/DOEfhHiH92
Rune @run_runesque - 2019-11-05: @jetjetmkii !! I know where this is. Are you visiting Atsuta? The Tokugawa museum? XD
Not a malicious AI bent on world domination @AdamGrandt - 2019-11-03: @theTorfinnOlsen Tokugawa Museum
1 Chome-1215-1 Migawa, Mito, Ibaraki 310-0921, Japan
+81 29-241-2721… https://t.co/3PRPHDzKOT
キャシー 🇵🇭 ♡ 🇯🇵 @thelostchibi - 2019-11-03: Went to the museum and also saw the pagoda where Ieyasu Tokugawa is buried.

I think I love Nikko! So interesting h… https://t.co/MjFyhqwr6i
Jush (ᅌᴗᅌ✿)@KAMABOKO GONPACHIRO🎴 @jess_mochiru - 2019-10-30: I have 1 free day... should i run to the tokugawa museum...
Hiromi Universe @OnigiriAction1 - 2019-10-24: A scene of the Chapter TAKEKAWA Bamboo River of Illustrated handscroll of Tale of Genji (written by MURASAKI SHIKIB… https://t.co/WPY0nGRzfT
Hiromi Universe @OnigiriAction1 - 2019-10-24: A scene of the Chapter 柏木　of Illustrated handscroll of Tale of Genji written by 紫式部　11th cent.
The handscroll was m… https://t.co/eKJmIJMRvh