Adachi Museum of Art: Karesansui Garden Ranked Japan's Best for 15 Consecutive Years and Yokoyama Taikan Masterpieces

Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi City, Shimane is a museum opened in 1970 by businessman Adachi Zenko. Under the founder's philosophy that "a garden is also a work of art," it has been ranked Japan's best garden for over 20 consecutive years since 2003 by the American Journal of Japanese Gardening.

Japan's Best Garden: Karesansui and Borrowed Scenery

Adachi Museum's garden boasts a vast area of 50,000 tsubo (approximately 165,000 m²), comprising karesansui dry landscape, white sand and green pine, and moss gardens. Particularly notable is the karesansui garden with wave-patterned white sand and the composition incorporating distant mountains as borrowed scenery, praised as a "living painting." Over 250 staff are dedicated to garden maintenance.

Yokoyama Taikan Collection

Another treasure Adachi Museum is proud of is the collection of works by modern Japanese painting master Yokoyama Taikan. The permanent exhibition holds approximately 120 representative works by Taikan, the largest scale in Japan. Works including "Autumn Leaves" and "Ten Scenes of Sea and Mountain" allow appreciation of Taikan's soul.

Access

About 20 minutes by free shuttle bus from JR Yasugi Station. Free shuttle buses also run from Yonago Station.