Hoki Museum

**Get close, because the building makes you.** The galleries are deliberately narrow. Realist work of this kind changes completely between two metres and thirty centimetres, and the corridor width is a curatorial decision. **Go around the outside first.** The cantilevered steel tube projecting into the air over the lawn is the architectural argument and you cannot see it from inside. **Closed Tuesdays.** With a holiday shift to Wednesday. There is little else in this suburb to fall back on. **Half the works rotate every six months.** The main gallery is rehung twice a year, so a second visit is not a repeat. **It is not cheap.** ¥2,100 is high for a museum of this size. It is justified by the fact that no other institution in Japan is doing this, but go in knowing.