Family Travelogue: Hakone Open-Air Museum/ Family Travelogue 16 March 2016 Part 3

1984 My Sky Hole by Bukichi Inoue

The Hakone Open-Air Museum is a Harmony of Sculpture and Nature. It was opened in scenic Hakone in 1969, the first museum in Japan devoted to sculpture in the open air.

The museum is situated in 70,000 sqm of parkland and has distant vistas of mountain and sea that change with the changing seasons.

In 2014, around 300 works of Picasso were added with the over 120 works displayed in the open. Picasso's works are placed inside and photography is prohibited.

1984 My Sky Hole by Bukichi Inoue

Museum staff members check the status of the sculptures daily and carry out any necessary conservation to preserve their beauty and original condition. The staff also focuses on landscaping and planting. The sculptures are placed to balance and harmonize with the terrain of the surrounding mountains.

1984 My Sky Hole by Bukichi Inoue

1984 My Sky Hole is a huge silver sphere sculpture at the Hakone Open-Air Museum by a Japanese artist, Bukichi Inoue ( 1930~1997).

1984 My Sky Hole by Bukichi Inoue

Inoue created a few versions of My Sky Hole displayed in some museums in Japan. His sculptures involves surrounding environment to give people peace by linking them to nature. He continued designing trying to achieve depth from his works until his date.
More so, Bukichi Inoue created the overall design for the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 1969.

1992 My Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a Homeage to the Mountains of Japan

1992 My Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a Homeage to the Mountains of Japan by an Israeli artist, Igael Tumarkin (1933~ )

1949 bronze made Eva

1949 bronze made Eva by an Italian artist, Francesco Messina

1969 Pavilion Sculpture

1969 Pavilion Sculpture by a Swiss artist, Max Bill (1908~ )

1971 Young Woman

1971 Young Woman by a Japanese artist, Churyo Sato (1912~2011)

Ground Maze at Hakone Open-Air Museum

My daughter had tried this maze and she had difficulty finding the way out :).

Hakone Open-Air Museum Cafe

Apparently, the Cafe inside the Hakone Open-Air Museum lets you not only relax but enjoy your meal with the greenery and breeze as the building is surrounded by trees and lawn.

1976 Spring in East Hokkaido

1976 Spring in East Hokkaido by a Japanese artist, Yasutake Funakoshi (1912~2002)

1976 Autumn in East Hokkaido

1976 Autumn in East Hokkaido by a Japanese artist, Yoshitatsu Yanagihara (1910~2004)

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan

Winter was about to be over and in two weeks time the museum is full of Sakura. A few trees had bloom during our visit.

1972 Dedicated to the Aegean Sea

1972 Dedicated to the Aegean Sea by a Japanese artist, Yoshi Kinouchi (1892~1977)

1969 Borne de Terminus

1969 Borne de Terminus by a Japanese artist, Yasuo Mizui (1925~2008)

1953 Michinoku by a Japanese artist, Kotaro Takamura (1883~1956)

1972 Primavera

1972 Primavera by a Japanese artist Takashi Mine (1914~2003)

1985 The Boxing Ones

1985 The Boxing Ones by a British artist, Barry Flanagan (1941~ )

1918 Grandson of the General

1918 Grandson of the General by a Japanese artist, Seibo Kitamura (1884~1987)

1978~1980 bronze made Sfera con Sfera

1978~1980 bronze made Sfera con Sfera by an Italian artist, Arnaldo Pomodoro (1926~ )

1962 La Mer

1962 La Mer by a Japanese artist, Hiroatsu Takata (1900~1987)

Check out the other art works displayed at Hakone Open-Air Museum:

Hakone Open-Air Museum
Part 4

Hakone Open-Air Museum
Part 2

Hakone Open-Air Museum
Part 1

More art works the next blog...Hakone Open-Airp Musuem Part 4

How to get there:

From Gora: Take the Tozan train and alight after one stop at Chokoku-No-Mori Station.
follow the signs to the Open Air Museum.

Getting to the Hakone Open-Air Museum

From Shinjuku, we took the Romance Car to Hakone Yumoto.
From Hakone Yumoto Station, we went down across the road and took the Bus 2 bound to Moto Hakone Ko and Hakone Machi Ko. We alighted at Moto Hakone Ko.
From Moto Hakone Ko, we joined the Lake Ashii Cruise to Togendai Ko
From Togendai Ko, we took the Ropeway to Ubako station
From Ubako station, we took the Bus to Sounzan station
From Sounzan Station, we took the cable car to Gora station
We had our lunch near Gora station before we went to the Open-Air Museum by the Tozan Railway train.
A separate post for our Hakone trip March 2016.

Check out the places we had visited in Japan: