Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art

The memories of this museum kept coming into my mind even after I left Tokyo. This is a museum about sharing the experience of tea ceremony and appreciating the artworks. I have absorbed all of that from my visit. This museum is quiet, elegant, yet welcoming. I could tell that the people who runs the museum have done a wonderful job on passing an eye for beauty to its visitors. The staff speaks fluent English, photos and loudness is prohibited inside the museum.

Small but excellent museum with nice surrounding gardens. Most museum placards are in Japanese only but staff will give you an English translation handour if you request it. Please note that you must take off your shoes to enter the museum. Also, there is a sign discouraging visitors from walking around the garden without entering the museum and buying a ticket.' The museum is off the beaten path so I suggest you use a navigation program like Google Maps to help find it.

I love this museum and visit it every time I am in Tokyo. It usually focuses on utensils used for Japanese tea ceremonies that the founder (Sokuo Hatakeyama) collected.

I enjoyed this fine art

Very small and feels overpriced. Garden is nice but access being bad makes it a poor choice of outing.