Takehisa Yumeji Museum

Takehisa Yumeji Museum is a white building next to the brick building of Yayoi Museum.

Yumeji Takehisa is an illustrator and poet in Taisho era.
His models are slim beautiful girls.
He stayed in Kikufuji Hotel in Hongo which is near this museum.
He enjoyed meeting his dear lover, Hikono Kasai around here.

Museum cafe is named "Minatoya" after the store which he ran in Nihonbashi.

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<The Nearest Station>

Todaimae station on Namboku Line (N12/Tokyo Metro)

<Admission>

900 yen

10:00-17:00      Closed on Mondays (or the following day if it's a holiday)
                      Year end days and New Year days
                      While changing exhibitions

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Yayoi Museum

Yayoi Museum and Takehisa Yumeji Museum have a connection corridor on the second floor.
Actually, ticket is common for both museums.

Entrance is at the Yayoi Museum and exit of Takehisa Yumeji Museum leads you back to the entrance of Yayoi Museum.

The third floor of Yayoi Museum has regular exhibition of an illustrator Kasho Takabatake.
The founder of this museum, Takumi Kano encountered Kasho Takabatake's picture in a book when he was nine years old and was moved by that picture.

After he grew up to be a lawyer, he wrote a fan letter to the illustrator and got acquainted.

On the first floor and the second floor, special exhibitions are held every three months.
Exhibitions are mainly from artworks and illustrations of Meiji era through Showa era.

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<The Nearest Station>

Todaimae station on Namboku Line (N12/Tokyo Metro)

<Admission>

900 yen

10:00-17:00      Closed on Mondays (or the following day if it's a holiday)
                      Year end days and New Year days
                      While changing exhibitions

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