The Sumida Hokusai Museum

Please read my review before you decide to go to this so-called museum. At the ticket office they will try their best to sell you a combined ticket for the permanent and temporary exhibition, which costs 1500 yen, instead of 400 yen for the permanent exhibition. So the museum is absolutely not worth the money, whether it’s a permanent exhibition or a temporary one. For this money you will be shown several printed books from the late 19th century, many works by students and followers, but very few works by Hokusai himself, including a print of the great wave, so actively used by the museum for marketing. At the temporary exhibition, everything is even worse; instead of most of the works you will get “large scale high resolution replicas”, the meaning of which is absolutely incomprehensible for being in the museum. If you're hoping to see 36 views of Mount Fuji, don't get your hopes up as the museum only has 1 image and that's in replica format. The remaining 35 will be kindly offered to you to view on the tablet nearby. To summarize, if you are from Europe, the USA or Russia or have been and understand what good and quality museums are, then don’t even waste time traveling and money on a ticket to this obviously fraudulent museum.