Himeji City Museum of Art — Attraction in Himeji

I went mainly for the teamLab exhibit as I enjoyed Borderless. I would not recommend it at all if you have already visited Borderless. The whole thing can be seen in 10 minutes and all of the set pieces were essentially copied from Borderless from what I can tell. I expected more for the 1400 yen admission (half the price of Borderless for like 10% of the content). Also be warned that there is no re-entry to the special exhibit, even if you just step out for a minute (wish they had made this more clear, I didn’t see any English signage for it).

The permanent exhibition (200 yen) was nice however and worth seeing if you are...

A nice little art museum, it took me about 45 minutes to see all of it, including the special exhibit which is the longest segment by far, so not the most expansive collection. There is no info in English except for a blurb about the permanent gallery which explains where it came from. Otherwise titles are in their original language and any info in the piece/artist is in Japanese. Definitely a museum for those who are really interested in art as there is nothing so incredible in the normal collection that you...

Beautiful brick building and great exhibition space, but I just can't shake the bad aftertaste that the commentary plaques left. Specifically, I went to see the Minoru Onoda exhibition in 2021 and honestly the text explaining his works was a pain to read, being full of unnecessary flowery prose. In addition, I took a few glances at the English translation and found that it contains some pretty...