About Yamagata museum

♦Have a gracious moment by touching the arts.
Various arts from different countries of different genres can be seen here. As visitors enter the building, sculpture by Rodin, paintings by Picasso and Chagall are welcoming them.
Hasegawa's collection mainly Japanese painting of Edo era, and Yoshino's collection of French modern times paintings by the impressionists are worth wathcing.



Details Yamagata museum



Address:1-63 Ohte town, Yamagata city, Yamagata
Telephone:023-622-3090
Opening hour:10a.m. - 5p.m. (must enter by 4:30)
Closed:Mondays
Entrance fee:500 yen, 400 yen for a group of more than 20 people. elementary and jr. high school students: 200 yen. high school and univerisity students: 300 yen.
Parking:(free) 20 cars

Access to Yamagata museum

Access:15 minutes on foot from Yamagata station toward Kajo park Ohtemachi.


Sightseeing in Yamagata
Spring:Cherry blossoms are at their best from April.
Summer:Hot. Visiting hamlet is recommended.
Fall:Beauty of the leaves when turned in autum. Imoni festivals everywhere!
Winter:Freezing cold with snow, and the trees will be coverd with them and ice.
Snow:Cold, but not as delicous as shaved ice.


Gotta eat them!
Cherries:70% of cherries in Japan are produced in Yamagata Prefecture.
La France pears:The queen of the fruits is also Yamagata's best production.
Yonezawa Beef:As known as "Matsuzaka" of the west, and "Yonezawa" of the east.
Imoni:One of the local dishes of Yamagata which beef soup and taro roots are boiled and seasoned together.
Soba:Buckwheat noodles.
Cold ramen:Yamagata is the birthplace for cold ramen; the chinese noodle.


About Yamagata info. About Yamagata info.
Yamagata info is the web site to introduce Yamagata Prefecture of Japan, mainly about the tourist attractions and hot springs which may help those who are planning on a trip to Yamagata.
The place where beautiful Japanese nature and unique culture still remain.


Map of Yamagata Japan.
Map of Yamagata Japan.


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