Adachi Museum of Art — Attraction in Yasugi

The art museum that keeps on giving. The whole place is built like a Japanese garden as you turn around the corner and find yet more beautiful art. It is also surrounded by a Japanese garden that blends in with the scenic mountains in the distance. The exhibits today showed many scrolls of birds, trees and flowers along with artistic canvases and huge screens of Mt. Fuji and other sights in Japan that were made in the Showa and Taisho periods. There were maki-e gold inlaid boxes and even a whole cabinet. I want to examine the detail more closely. The ceramics collection was small yet charming. When you get to the gift shop, it’s not the end. Keep following the arrows and you can see huge modern paintings that are quite stunning, too. And then go upstairs and there are more. These were my favorite of the modern collection. For transportation, get to the Yasugi JR station and then you will find a free shuttle bus to the museum. Make sure to get a time ticket at the museum for when you plan to return on the bus (for crowd-control). Google maps did not show me this route, but you can find the information on the Adach Museum website. Worth the visit even though it took my whole morning starting from Matsue station. Plus foreigners currently get discount tickets to the exhibits, like most the tourists site in Matsue. Note: I spent about 1 hour 15 minutes wandering the halls. Would have liked to spend more time, but I didn’t know when it would end, and I had to get to my next...

The best viewing garden in Japan (arguably), accompanied with a collection of good Japanese Art (primarily from the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries). Very well hung, with good explanatory text in English for people who cannot read all the Japanese (albeit the Japanese has hiragana readings for the more complex kanji so that it is accessible for children).

Well worth the trouble of getting here, even by public transport and the provided shuttle bus. Because the garden is viewed from the buildings this (surprisingly) is an ideal place to come on a wet day.

We spent c3.5 hours here and could easily have spent more.

The shuttle bus is well organised with a system for reserving a space on the time of bus you want back to the station (take a ticket on entry to the museum). Because bus capacity is limited you may not get your first choice time of return when the museum is busy.

Despite the fact there were 7/8 coach parties there at the same time it did not feel overly busy - reflecting the scale of the garden...

This art museum is famous for its best gardens in Japan. It's quite large, has many artworks, and is a bit busy if you're there for 2 hours. I think you need 3 hours or more. It was empty on a weekday, but it seems to be crowded on weekends. You can take photos of the Japanese garden, but the air conditioning is on, so you have to look through the large glass windows. The pictures by Yoshio Hayashi, a children's artist famous for "Peek-a-Boo," いないいないばあ are very cute♥️Many people must have grown up reading his picture books. After enjoying the best gardens in Japan, go through the underground passage to the annex. There are many fairly large paintings in the annex. You can sit and look at them. You can rest your tired feet😁Large paintings are amazing in their incredible craftsmanship when you look at them up close or from a distance. There are several gift shops and coffee shops inside. You can spend about 3-4...