What other travelers are saying about Hakone Museum of Art
📍 Hakone Museum of Art 箱根美術館
@ Hakone, Japan 🇯🇵
We visited the Hakone Museum of Art on 20 November 2025, and it quickly became one of our favourite places in Hakone. With the 1,600 yen combo ticket purchased earlier at Gora Park, we could skip the ticket queue and enter smoothly when the museum opened.
Inside, the museum showcases traditional Japanese ceramics and art pieces in a calm, minimalist setting. The architecture blends beautifully with the gardens, creating a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere throughout our visit.
The gardens are the true highlight:
🌿 苔庭 (Moss Garden)
Exclusively beautiful — soft moss carpets, gentle stone lanes, and quiet autumn colours. We crossed a wooden bridge and enjoyed the serene scenery. We even saw an elder speaking with the caretaker, which showed how much attention and dedication goes into maintaining the garden’s pristine look.
🍁 神仙郷 (Shinsenkyo Garden)
A spacious and elegant garden with open views and warm autumn colours. Perfect for slow walking and appreciating the natural landscape.
🍵 真和亭 (Shinwatei Teahouse)
One of the most memorable moments. We enjoyed tea and Japanese sweets for 800 yen, a lovely and worthwhile experience. The courtyard garden surrounding the teahouse is peaceful, and the reflection of the autumn leaves on the glossy table surface was simply beautiful — like nature creating its own artwork. It was calming, warm, and unforgettable.
Overall, the museum is more than just an art space — it is a place to slow down, breathe, and appreciate the beauty of Japanese nature and traditional aesthetics.
A serene, beautifully curated museum with stunning gardens, peaceful pathways, and a wonderful 800-yen tea experience at 真和亭. A must-visit in Hakone. 🍁🌿🍵✨
Frequently Asked Questions
The museum's moss garden is considered one of Hakone's finest, featuring over 130 moss varieties beneath approximately 200 maple trees. The green moss contrasts beautifully with vibrant autumn foliage.
Yes. The moss garden includes a tea house where visitors can experience traditional tea service in an authentic setting.
Nearby museums include the Hakone Open-Air Museum and Pola Museum of Art, both accessible via Hakone's transportation network.
Autumn is particularly popular when approximately 200 maple trees transform the garden with vibrant red and orange foliage contrasting against the green moss ground cover.
Such a 😻 beautifully maintained park and excellent for autumn leaves along with small moss area. Not very big and sometimes I felt its little too pricey for what they offered. But yes during Autumn leaves season definitely you can visit along with visiting nice Art museum area.
A relatively small but calming Japanese style moss garden with exhibit halls showing paintings of a Japanese artist and also some ancient Japanese pottery. Parts of the garden were closed off and there was some repair works when I visited at the end of September 2024. There is also a small tea house where you can buy tea and a small snack to sit and admire the moss garden. As it was empty and looked dark inside, it looked closed and I didn’t go in. I took my time at this garden/museum and stayed around 1 hr 45 minutes. I would say if you’re the check-box type of traveller, an hour would be more than sufficient. There is free parking within 3 minutes walking distance of the entrance.
Forest shower therapy, you can capture every little detail from the vivid green leaves, sunlit stone path to the tall straight cedar trees. I spent an hour soaking it all in.
Highly recommend if you love quiet moments, sunlight through trees, and taking peaceful nature photos
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