Ōta Memorial Museum of Art

I loved this museum, although it has more of a gallery feel. The exhibition is on two floors, showing a variety of traditional woodblock prints from the late Seizō Ota V's personal collection. He collected them as an important cultural property of Japan.

It's ¥‎700 to enter, which sounds a lot for a small two floor museum, but it's so expertly presented it's worth it. The prints are shown in the perfect manner. The lighting is dim in the room, then the prints are lit from inside the glass cabinets. This means that the prints are clear and there isn't glare on the glass, and they're lit from an angle from lighting above so you can appreciate the subtle embossing of the paper that occurs when printed in the traditional Japanese style. Most museums don't bother lighting the prints and just allow the room lighting to do the work, which flattens the image and doesn't show the full quality.

As the prints are fragile and many of them are over a hundred and fifty years old the exhibition is rotated monthly. Check the website for what's on, and for their opening times, as they are closed inconsistently for several days a month.

It's ¥‎700 to see some of the highest quality woodblock prints ever made, in the most expert presentation I've ever seen. Go.