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Art Island "Naoshima” one day trip
Joined 2017
Naoshima is an art island. There are good art museums in this island, Chichu Art Museum, Benesse House Museum, Valley Gallery, Lee Ufan Museum, and so on.
Art House Project in Honmura Area is also interesting. Some of them are made by a Japanese architect, Tadao Ando. They are very wonderful. You can enjoy outside works in the island. The most famous outside works are two red and yellow pumpkins by Yayoi Kusama.
Itinerary
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Meeting Point
Uno Port
Uno Port
We will take the ferry to Naoshima island together
Chichu Art Museum
It is built mostly underground to keep the beautiful scenery of the Seto Inland Sea. Art works by Claude Monet, jJames Turrell, and Walter De Maria are on permanent display in this museum by Tadao Ando.
Benesse House Museum & Valley Gallery
There are many art works in Benesse House Museum. The artists stay in Naoshima and they produced their works for this museum. The modern art collections are displayed too.
In Valley Gallery you can see the works by Yayoi Kusama and Tsuyoshi Ozawa.
Both of them were built by Tadao Ando.
Lee Ufan Museum
the museum was built by Tadao Ando. The works of Korean artist, Lee Ufan are displayed.
House Art Project
In this project the artists turn the empty houses into the works of art. You can see six arts, for example, Kadoya, Ishibashi, Haisha, Mminamidera, Goojinnja, Gokaisho with the multi-site ticket.
Outdoor Works
Red pumpkin, Naoshima Pavillion, Bunraku Puppet are seen near Miyanoura Port.
Uno Port
We will take the ferry back together
Ending Point
Uno Port
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee
transportation fee, entrance fee, lunch
Tour Important Information
I will make a plan for you according to your opinion.
Naoshima is an art island. In Chichu Art Museum you can enjoy the art works of three artists, Claude Monet, James Tturrell, and Walter De Maria under natural light. The museum was built for each art work by Tadao Ando. The art works are wonderful, and the architecture is also very nice.
In Benesse House Museum you can enjoy many types of art works. You must be excited. Valley Gallery has the particular atmosphere.
From Lee Ufan Museum you can see beautiful sea and islands.
In Art House Project you can see different types of art works which is made by different artists.
There are many outdoor works there. When you walk from Benesse House Museum to Yellow Pumpkin, you can see the outdoor works and beautiful scenery of the sea.
There are some very good art museums in Naoshima. You can enjoy various kinds of art there.
Naoshima is an island. You can see the beautiful scenery of Seto Inland Sea. You can feel the comfortable wind and listen to the sound of the wave.
Important message from the supplier
I can guide you according to your request.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2017
About Tour Guide Yoko M.
Hello. I'm Yoko Miyake. Please call me Yoko. I'm a licensed guide. I love travelling. I have visited all the prefectures in Japan. Though Japan has many good places to visit, I hope many foreign travellers will visit my hometown Kurashiki and enjoy their stay there. Because I was born in Kurashiki, and I have lived there since then, I know a lot about Kurashiki. Of course I can show you other good places in Okayama Prefecture and near Okayama Prefecture.
Reviews
Viktoria S.
Okayama Korakuen Garden , Okayama Castle, and Yumeji Museum
“Very good guide! ”
Yoko was very informed and provided a lot of information. It was the excellent tour!
Yoko M.
Thank you for a nice comment. I am very happy to hear that. I had a good time with the guests.
Jon H.
Okayama Korakuen Garden , Okayama Castle, and Yumeji Museum
“Above and Way Beyond Expectations, Yoko!”
Yoko was tremendously helpful both long before our custom tour and even after! She patiently answered so many questions I had as a first time visitor to Soja City/Kurashiki, Okayama in the weeks before our tour. She set up a taxi driver and helped me navigate Japanese gravesite customs. Someone in the taxi compoany even happened to know my family and where my family's grave was located! Her English is excellent and she is a caring and capable guide that w connected with so easily. Our visit to my family's grave in Soja City was magical for me, my wife, and our daughter and granddaughter. Our granddaughter asked me if she could meet a relative her age. Yoko and the ancestors made that happen. (See picture with two happy 10 year olds, one from the US, one from Soja CIty, Japan). We bid our newly found relatives goodbye and returned to Kurashiki. After a refreshing lunch, we had a wonderful (and cooling!) visit to the Ohara Art Museum and Ohara houses. After our tour, Yoko was once again such a star! My cousin wanted to visit our family grave a couple days after us. Yoko helped arrange a taxi for them and my cousin got to spend additional time with our Soja City relatives! Yoko is such a caring, generous, knowledgable and helpful guide! Words cannot express our deep gratitude to her. Our request was complex and she delivered! We cannot recommend her to you enough!
Yoko M.
Thank you for a nice review. I also had a nice time with you and your family. I appreciate you.
“A wonderful day in Okayama!”
We saw a lot on this tour. Important to have an umbrella on hand if touring in June as it rained a bit. Yoko packed a lot into this day which was good. Because it rained the river boats were not operating. We instead walked along the beautiful river bank. Yoko understood and spoke good English.
Yoko M.
Thank you for your nice review. I am very happy to read it. Is your leg all right? We walked long. So I am worried about that. I wish you can get Nintendo tickets. Yoko
$227/ per group
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Okayama Korakuen Garden , Okayama Castle, and Yumeji Museum
Korakauen Garden is one of three most beautiful gardens in Japan. It was constructed by the lord of Okayama Castle. We can walk and enjoy the beautiful view. Okayama Castle is covered with black board, so it is called crow castle. Yumeji Museum is the art museum of Takeshita Yumeji, who was born in Okayama and a very popular painter.
Kurashiki Bikan historical area and Korakuen Park and Okayama Castle in Okayama
We visit Kurashiki Bikan historical area and walk along the stream with willows beside it. You see old houses and rice warehouses. Now they are used as a museum or shops. After that we visit Korakuen Park. It was one of three most famous parks in Japan. It was created for Tsunamasa Ikeda , the lord of Okayama Han in Edo Period. We also visit Okayama Castle.
Kurashiki Bikan historical area and Seto Inland Sea and Seto Ohashi Bridge from Washuzan Hill
First we will go to Kurashiki Bikan historical area. We will walk along the stream called Kurashiki River. We will see big and old merchants' houses and old warehouses. We will watch and buy Japanese folkcraft there. We will go to Ivy Square and eat lunch. After that we will go to Washuzan in Kojima by bus and taxi. We will see many small islands and Seto Ohashi Bridge in Seto Inland Sea.
