Sano Art Museum — Attraction in Mishima

A nice little facility that holds some interesting, well-organized exhibitions. So far, I've seen some weird-cute artwork by Higuchi Yuko, a collection of Japanese swords and, today, an Audrey Hepburn photo exhibition. Signs succinctly tell visitors in English some rules to follow (no taking photos of the exhibits, no talking loudly and so on). There's a small gift shop on the ground floor which sells goods related to the featured exhibition, as well as other items. The adjoining Japanese garden is quite beautiful, and there's also a coffee shop / restaurant (松韻) on the opposite side of the garden...

Although I didn't go inside the museum, the adjoining garden was wonderful. As you can perhaps see by the photos that I attached. The small heavily wooded garden is laced with narrow pathways. I think that the - I'll call it a park- is very well laid out, with a tiny waterfall at its center feeding a lovely pond forming, I would guess, about one quarter of the park's area. The dense wooded area opens onto the pond, while a small grassy open area rests in another corner. I was almost alone in the middle of the day, and thoroughly enjoyed the...

When we bought our ticket, the employee said we could take pictures except where there was a "no picture" sign. We then took 3 or 4 pictures (the other employees upstairs did not say anything) but suddenly a employee came aggressively to us saying it was strictly forbidden to take ANY picture. She asked us to delete the few pictures we took and we were so confused. I did not...