Sights
Yumeji Art Museum
Okayama City
Museum of art dedicated to Yumeji Takehisa, widely known as the “Japanese Toulouse-Lautrec”
The Yumeji Art Museum features a collection of works by Okayama-born Yumeji Takehisa, a poet and artist who was active in the early 1900s. The museum is listed in the “Michelin Green Guide” with a rating of One-Star. The collection portrays numerous women with slender limbs posed in smooth S-shaped lines, an established characteristic of the style that came to be known as Yumeji’s “Bijin-ga.” At the museum shop, visitors can purchase original postcards, stationery, and other goods. In addition, visitors can also enjoy Yumeji’s favorite European baked snack, Garibaldi biscuits, only found at the museum’s cafe. Come and enjoy tea time just as Yumeji would have it.
Basic information
- Address
- 2-1-32 Hama, Naka Ward, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
- Access
- 5 min via tram from JR Okayama Sta. to “Shiroshita,” and then 15 min on foot; 15 min by bus from JR Okayama Sta. to “Horaibashi / Yumeji Kyodo Bijutsukan Mae”
- Business Hours
- 9:00am – 5:00pm (last admission 4:30pm)
- Closed
- Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a holiday), New Year’s Holiday (Dec. 28 – Jan. 1)
- Admission
- General 700 yen; students 400 yen (junior high, senior high, and university), 300 yen (elementary)
- Tel.
- 086-271-1000
- Universally designed (Accessible for all people regardless of age/disabilities)
- Wheelchair accessible toilet /Rental wheelchairs
- Website
- https://yumeji-art-museum.com/english/(English)