[2025 Kobe Attraction] Travel Guide for Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Updated Jan)

I recently visited the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, a beautiful place near Nada Station that is truly astonishing! This building is considered a symbol of recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and since its opening in 2002, it has been attracting many visitors. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art was designed by the famous Japanese architect Tadao Ando, with a building area of about 28,000 square meters, making it one of the largest structures in the western region. Facing the sea, it is filled with the unique aspects of Ando's architectural style, and every corner is a perfect spot for photography. On the museum's rooftop, the work 'Kobe Frog' by Dutch artist Florentijn Hoffmann is displayed, becoming one of the symbols of the museum. In addition, the exhibition rooms house a collection of over 10,000 works of art from Japan and abroad, including works by artists related to Hyogo Prefecture. After visiting the museum, you can relax in the restaurant and café, enjoying delicious cuisine. Why not try the 'Kobe Deluxe Pork Cutlet' or the 'Tajima Beef Minced Meat Cutlet Lunch' at Restaurant Fortissimo, while admiring the sea view outside the window. In this place full of artistic atmosphere, you can enjoy good food, appreciate artworks, and have a pleasant time with friends and family. It is definitely a recommended travel destination!

The museum was almost empty, quiet, and free, allowing us to slowly enjoy the artworks. Students get in for free, and seniors over 60 get half-price admission. This time, the exhibition showcased the changes in the city 30 years after the Great Hanshin Earthquake. We saw old tape recorders, broadcasts from air-raid shelters, and Windows 98 computers. Unfortunately, we arrived too late, and by the time we finished the exhibition, it was already dark, so we could only take pictures of the riverside night view.

|Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Designed by Tadao Ando, the museum is free to enter except for the special exhibition area. The free areas include the seaside square and the green apple on the roof. 🍏 🐸 The frog on the roof has recently deflated and seems to be broken. The photos are very beautiful when the weather is good. 📸 Today, I met a group of people taking photos 📸. There were many people waiting in line behind them, but they still took photos as they pleased. After taking photos, they were not satisfied and continued to take more. This is really not good. 🚇 Take the subway to Nada or Iwaya and walk for 10 minutes. The museum is closed on Mondays, so don't go there on that day.

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art It takes about 10 minutes on foot from JR Nada Station! The path to the museum was also filled with objects, so it was fun to walk there🌟 The museum building was also artistic. If you get tired of walking around, you can relax at a cafe or restaurant, or go out to the sea side and get some fresh air. The museum shop was also well-stocked. I stayed there for about 2 hours and was able to see most of it. The spiral staircase was a popular photo spot for Instagram! Please come and visit us✨ 1-1 Wakihama Kaigandori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0073 #HyogoPrefectureTrip #HyogoPrefecturalMuseum ofArt #0YenTrip

Every time I go to a city museum or art gallery, I like to visit the most. I like to watch quietly by myself 👀 and take photos slowly 📷 without having to accommodate anyone else’s rhythm ~ casually and casually, letting myself swim in the palace of art, often because I like it and forget the time~ Tadao Ando is one of my favorite architects. Of course you can’t miss the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art when you come to Kobe‼ ️ ⛰[Attraction Guide] Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art 📍Detailed address: 1-1, Wakihama Kaigandori Street, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan 🚗Transportation guide: Take the JR Line from Kobe Sannomiya, get off at Nada Station, and walk for about 10 minutes 🕙Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00 💰Ticket price: Free to visit the art museum, 600 yen/person for some exhibition halls. 🌟Highlights: The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is located in the Port of Kobe and opened in April 2002. It is a symbol of cultural restoration after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995. It was designed by the famous architect Tadao Ando. There are 6 permanent exhibition halls, which introduce more than 3,000 domestic and foreign works collected in the museum since modern times according to theme. There are also various theme exhibitions. 📆Currently there are paid exhibitions (600 yen/person): ✔️The Story of Art (January 31-April 7, 2024): Located in the permanent exhibition hall 1·2·3·4·5 of the museum, it displays the museum's collection and displays "special collections" of works according to themes. The theme of the exhibition is "art" and "story", mainly sculptures, prints, as well as oil paintings and Japanese paintings related to the local area of ​​Hyogo Prefecture. ✔️The 180th Anniversary of the Birth of Wu Changshuo - The World of Wu Changshuo (January 13-April 7, 2024): Located on the 2nd floor of the permanent exhibition hall of the museum, 2024 is the 180th anniversary of the birth of Wu Changshuo. The Hyogo Museum of Art is a four-museum joint exhibition with the theme of "Wu Changshuo's World - Famous Masters of the Maritime School and Xiling". It is displayed in two phases. Each phase has different content and contains many rarely seen works. 🏭Compared to the museum exhibits, the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art building itself is the largest work of art. The entire building is a paradise for photography lovers. The combination of various straight lines and curves, relying on the coastal background, is especially photogenic! 📸Photo check-in points: ✅The museum's open halls and corridors, as well as the circulation of visitors, can freely shuttle back and forth indoors and outdoors. On days with good weather, the light and shadow effects are particularly good, and the three-dimensional depth of the building can be photographed. ✅Large steps and slopes on the seaside side lead visitors to the viewing platform. The core of the art museum is three parallel glass box buildings. The glass structure and fair-faced concrete walls are simple and modern, and the gloomy weather, sea, and The sky, the gray building, the big stairs, the beauty of emptiness. ✅The round-shaped staircase that can be reached from different floors is a must-visit for everyone who comes to the art museum to take pictures! Both the third and second floors can enter the "Ando Gallery", which is free to visit. The gallery is divided into upper and lower floors, displaying Ando's architectural models, concept sketches and drawings. The three-layer modeling is very impressive. There is also a library with a whole wall of books, where you can freely browse Ando's works and other architecture-related books. ✅ Looking south from the gallery to the seaside deck, you can see the treasure of the museum - the green apple sculpture "Youth" designed by Tadao Ando, ​​which was inspired by the poem "Youth" by American poet Samuel Ullman. Exit from the third floor and go up to the fourth floor, and you can take photos of internet celebrities chewing green apples~ ✅On the other side, you can go up to the windward platform on the top of the building, and have a panoramic view of the lush Mount Rokko and the stepped cityscape.

Visiting art museums when traveling abroad is also a very indecent experience. When you come to Hyogo Prefecture, the art museum in Hyogo Prefecture really has a sense of design, and the entire design and decoration inside is very unique. It is worth coming here to take pictures. Take a look at this. The beautiful scenery, the architecture alone, and the unique features make it a tourist attraction that every visitor wants to visit.