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The recommendation tourist attraction 5 election which can also enjoy Yufuin fully in the day when it rains

©Yoshitomo Nara 2017

When it rains, a plan of special travel is often wrong, but Property which also delights a traveler in the day when it rains is enriched in Yufuin which has piled up history as a tourist spot. I'll be not influenced by the weather and introduce recommendation tourist attraction in indoor where you can touch art and culture. Please use it for planning on the day when it rains by all means.

It's a name, the luxurious space where a work for the barrel contemporary art person gathers at one hall

c︎ Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 7 works which are colorful and a pop floral motif by Murakami Takashi are exhibited by one room in a gallery.
cTakashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved︎. 7 works which are colorful and a pop floral motif by Murakami Takashi are exhibited by one room in a gallery.

Museum of art of the present-day art which opened in 2017 when Yufudake is left for the ideal location I desire. New building is enlarged in 2022 when 5th anniversary is met and 7 authors and 46 works are exhibited at present.
The work which made Yayoi Kusama's typical pumpkin a motif and "INFINITY - NETS" etc. from a production activity early stage are exhibited in a main building. The –luxurious space where the work which made the flower of "sea view" and "optical glass five-tier-stone gravemarker" and also the Murakami Takashi of Tatsuo Miyajima's "Time Waterfall panel #COM" and Hiroshi Sugimoto on which a number is poured like a waterfall a motif can enjoy a work for the contemporary art author who represents Japan at a stroke is spread in new building.

I touch only this's art work harmonized with nature of Yufuin.

©Yoshitomo Nara 2017 An art book, the lounge which can be read freely. You can take a short rest while looking at a work with Yufudake which spreads ahead of the window.
cYoshitomo Nara 2017 art book, the lounge which can be read freely. You can take a short rest while looking at a work with Yufudake which spreads ahead of the window.

But meet Michi Nara's "Your Dog" with grand Yufudake in the background at the open gallery in outdoor in the 2nd floor of main building. Its lovely form can also be appreciated from an indoor lounge. Besides "Ether (lava)" and Mariko Mori's solid work called "Eternal I" of Kouhei Nawa are also exhibited in an open gallery. There is also something produced according to the place by Yufuin, and these can be flooded in enjoyment Experience which can taste only here.
The sophisticated building Kuma Kengo handled also makes time to touch art something more special.

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Entrance is a perfect reservation system. Each work can be appreciated tightly because quota restriction is being done. Nature of Yufuin and art are the museum of art where you can melt together and feel all space like a work.

c︎ Masaki Hamada (kkpo)
©︎Masaki Hamada (kkpo)
COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN (KOMIKOATOMYUJIAMUYUFUIN)
  • The addressOita prefecture Yufu city 2995-1, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRYufuin station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:30-17:00 (last entrance 16:00)
  • Days closedWednesday (Additionally there is temporary closing.)
  • AdmissionAdmission adult of 1700 yen, a university professional student of 1200 yen, junior and senior high school student of 1000 yen and elementary students of 700 yen
  • TELI don't have that.
  • ParkingI don't have that.
  • MemoI have a discount by online preorder from website.

Valuable antique stained glass is also exhibited historically.

The state of the display of "NIRUZU house". An antique of England direct import is used for building material of the outward appearance, furniture and furnishings.
The state of the display of "NIRUZU house". An antique of England direct import is used for building material of the outward appearance, furniture and furnishings.

The Japan's first real stained glass museum of art established in 1996. The founder who has a relation in the United Kingdom fell in love with the history 400th vintage of Yufuin said to be Christian's paradise on earth before has and the calm country landscape and opened it in this place.
Museum of art consists of 2 houses, a building in England a look "NIRUZU house" and "St. Robert church", and European antique stained glass after 1800 's is exhibited in the center. "NIRUZU house" then, stained glass and a handicraft are exhibited every country, and it's possible to feel locality and the time.

Beauty of the stained glass seen at a church is special.

St. Robert church of a perfect wooden building. When stained glass is seen imminently, it's surprised by its closeness and artistry.
St. Robert church of a perfect wooden building. When stained glass is seen imminently, it's surprised by its closeness and artistry.

Virgin Mary and angels of 1810 year work are displayed in front of St. Robert church. "Quietly, become calm" in "3 saints" and a right hand on the left side, arrangement. I gaze at its elaborate make. Light in the sun comes in over stained glass on the day which cleared up, and its beauty is in a climax. During being wrapped in the solemn atmosphere, it's also recommended to sit down on a chair and appreciate it slowly.
The stained glass which is also called "the artistry of the light". Even if it has passed for hundreds of years, it's the valuable museum of art where I notice charm of the stained glass which isn't deprived of a blaze.

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A work with the fitting various designs also equals a gift such as a photo frame of the stained glass and an accessory case at the shop on the 1st floor.

Yufuin stained glass museum of art
  • The addressOita prefecture Yufu city 2461-3, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRYufuin station, 15 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionAdult of 1000 yen, small size and 500 yen for a junior high school student
  • TEL0977-84-5575
  • ParkingParking: no charge (Parking is next to the stained glass Experience atelier from which it's about 100 m on the east side.)

I challenge only one of my Chopsticks making in the world.

Chopsticks making Experience, 2750 yen for 1 person (shipping charge, special) and the required time, from 1 hour and 30 minutes, 2 hours
Chopsticks making Experience, 2750 yen for 1 person (shipping charge, special) and the required time, from 1 hour and 30 minutes, 2 hours

One table is manufactured politely by the craftsman from the tree into which I grew at Yufuin and Oita-ken. It's the speciality store of chopsticks where the chopsticks put together are offered to various use and needs using a colorful tree species.
I also go to origin Chopsticks making Experience of a lecture by a craftsman as well as purchase of chopsticks. The tree species used in Experience is a cherry tree tree with the moderate hardness and softness. I'll begin to reduce to the favorite thinness and shape using a penknife and a sandpaper. It's possible to complete only a sandpaper and even your child is relieved. If the shape will be completed, it's baked and the favorite design and character are put in using a pen.

The chopsticks made with the utmost care are also most suitable for a gift for an important person.

To make the upper part of chopsticks shaving and the design of the animal motif.
To make the upper part of chopsticks shaving and the design of the animal motif.

If the design of the chopsticks will be completed, waterproofing can do the last completion and deliver finished goods to a home later at an atelier. For the memory of travel, it also fits a present for an important person.
The chopsticks bought at Hashiya Hajime table main store again become old, and a waterproof coating is also doing repair correspondence of bald one. The important tool which picks up chopsticks in Japanese and appears on a weaning ceremony in an end end of the life. Chopsticks of only One who would like to associate lengthily seem to add a flower to a daily meal casually.

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It's said that the Japanese custom by which myself have a meal with exclusive chopsticks is also unusual worldwide. You make them feel however special whether chopsticks be for Japanese once more.

Hashiya Hajime table main store
  • The addressOita prefecture Yufu city 2093-2, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRYufuin station, about 5 minutes
    From JRYufuin station, about 22 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionChopsticks making Experience, 2750 yen for 1 person (shipping charge, special)
  • TEL0977-84-4108
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoReservation for Chopsticks making Experience is received by On-line and the telephone. Experience conducts it in only "Hashiya Hajime table main store".

The retrospective theme park where streets in 1955 's were reproduced

The streets in Showa are colorful and kitschy. It's possible to take a picture of open inside of the building everywhere.
The streets in Showa are colorful and kitschy. It's possible to take a picture of open inside of the building everywhere.

When I'd like to leave charm in old good Showa in posterity, the various articles which colored prosperity in Showa are collected and it's exhibited. They seem to time-travel to at that time at all when I enter inside of the building, a retrospective, the world which is nostalgia spreads.
Streets in 1955 and 1965 's are reproduced by inside of the building, and there are about 20 booths at an electrical store, a Small Japanese Snacks shop and a barbershop a pure tearoom and a movie theater. The case that the atmosphere of the at that time is expressed realistically and is display of Experience type able to touch and take a seat actually is also charm. Wherever is cut off, it's photogenic, and I feel like taking much photograph.

School lunch of heart infliction. The world in Showa can be enjoyed much.

"Melon cream soda" of 500 yen of a Showa school lunch section "I make take, Showa school lunch". Takeout will be also done.
"Melon cream soda" of 500 yen of a Showa school lunch section "I make take, Showa school lunch". Takeout will be also done.

"I make take, Showa school lunch" is open on the 2nd floor of the building in autumn in 2023. It's given and school lunch and the menu of a characteristics of Showa perfection are offered to bread, bottled milk and cream soda. The classroom the desk and the seat used at a local elementary school formerly are reused in the store, and where the atmosphere is school, itself. Everyone returns to a child's mind.
Additionally there is also observatory where you can look at streets in the Small Japanese Snacks shop where you can shop actually and the gift shop which has complete set of Yufuin local specialty and also Yufuin on the 1st floor. It's flooded with a worldview in Showa to the hilt, and how about playing up?

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I'm homesick by the generation, and it's felt freshly conversely, and if, the charm by which it's "Yufuin Showa house" that you can enjoy yourself by everyone even if it's visited with the family. Finish being a person in Showa, and please take much photograph.

Yufuin Showa house
  • The addressOita prefecture Yufu city 1479-1, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRYufuin station, about 18 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionAdmission adult of 1200 yen and junior and senior high school student of 1000 yen and 4 years old-elementary students of 600 yen
  • TEL0977-85-3788
  • ParkingI don't have that.

Museum in Mori who collected the works which concern music

The "echo" which made Mozart's sheet music an art object is enshrined in the exhibition room center (There are usually no installations of cloth in the upper part.)
The "echo" which made Mozart's sheet music an art object is enshrined in the exhibition room center (There are usually no installations of cloth in the upper part.)

The museum in the hill in Yufuin away from the pother and the site in the inn which represents Yufuin "mountain cottage Murata (MURATA)". Of the art work which did that green can be enjoyed at this abundant and quiet place with the theme of the music, it's various.
The display which raises the curtain from a word of the worldwide composer and Toru Takemitsu who say "There are eyes and an ear in the same location mostly, and the man will be close to (omission) and the relation." A work by John Cage who received inspiration and was born, Man Ray and Andy Warhol equals music. It can be flooded with the world of a famous story slowly with the beautiful music which flows to inside of the building.

Time to indulge in reading quietly is also in luxurious feeling remarkably.

The library where Oku has the 1st floor. A book can be read freely, and there are a lot of people who spend time slowly here, too.
The library where Oku has the 1st floor. A book can be read freely, and there are a lot of people who spend time slowly here, too.

About 1000 copies of libraries about music and a painting equals the library on each 1st or 2nd floor mainly. Time a lower back can be written on a sofa, and while taking a break to indulge in reading is also fun. The book I don't usually take in my hand and an unexpected encounter are also the pleasure the travel destination.
Besides chocolate shops "theomurata (TEOMURATA)" and tearooms "the theo (TETEO)" juxtapose in the site. It's also recommended to merge with art enjoyment and visit. Comfortable time to touch art and spend under the quiet environment of the forest gives moisture to a heart.

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Green passes through abundant approach, and when I advance the long and straight hill I let concrete pouring where, I arrive at an entrance of the museum of art. The beautiful production which starts from the front where a work is appreciated is also nice.

artegio (ARUTEJIO)
  • The addressOita prefecture Yufu city 1272-175, Kawakami, Yufuin-cho MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRYufuin station, about 10 minutes
  • Business hours10:00-16:30
  • Days closedWednesday
  • AdmissionAn admission adult of 600 yen and a schoolchild of 300 yen
  • TEL0977-28-8686
  • ParkingFree

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