is an art museum located in Tama-ku

Tama-ku, Kawasaki

is one of the 8 wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 211,221 and a density of 10,310 persons per km². The total area was 20.49 km².-Geography:...

, Kawasaki

Kawasaki, Kanagawa

is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama. It is the 9th most populated city in Japan and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area....

, Kanagawa, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The Taro Okamoto Museum of Art mainly collects and preserves the works of Taro Okamoto, and his parents Kanoko and Ippei.

History

Work begins on the construction of the museum in November 1996, completed in July 1999, and the museum was opened in October 1999.

Access

• The museum is located approximately 17 minutes walk from Mukōgaoka-Yūen Station
  Mukogaoka-Yuen Station
  is a railway station on the Odakyu Odawara Line in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.-Platforms:-History:* 1927 - The station opens as Inada-Noborito Station...
  
   on the Odakyu Line
  Odakyu Electric Railway
  , or OER, is a major railway company based in Tokyo, Japan best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara, Enoshima, Tama New Town, and Hakone....
  
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