Atami MOA Museum of Art

Atami MOA Museum of Art is located on a mountain and can be reached by bus from Atami JR Station (get on at Platform 8). The museum was founded in 1982 by Mokichi Okada (MOA is an abbreviation of the Mokichi Okada Association). The museum mainly displays modern and contemporary East Asian paintings and ceramics, but there are not many exhibits. The highlight of this museum seems to be not the collection, but the museum building itself, the colorful circular hall, the Tea Garden with beautiful maple leaves, and the viewing platform overlooking Sagami Bay. The museum ticket is JPY 1,760. The visit process is as follows: after the ticket check, enter the Art Avenue, which is to take the 200-meter-long automatic escalator to the viewing platform, passing through the circular hall. The circular hall has a diameter of 20 meters, and the ceiling is projected with the world's largest kaleidoscope made by the famous Japanese kaleidoscope artist Mitsuru Yoda and his wife Yuriko. The background music is a piano piece composed by pianist Yuriko Nakamura specifically for this giant kaleidoscope. From the viewing platform, you can overlook Atami Castle and Sagami Bay. After that, you can visit the exhibits in the museum. After viewing the exhibits, you can visit the museum's garden, the Tea Garden, which has a teahouse and a restaurant. Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture