Saturday, February 14, 2015

Try Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum near Omote-sando, Minato ward, Tokyo

Okamoto Taro photographed

This makes a wonderful half day tour. Start your walking tour from Omotesando subway station. Walk for eight minutes and you will be at the museum. His former residence is now converted into the memorial museum exhibiting his works: just the right building, not too large but cozy in size. 

After the visit, try walking for twenty minutes or more (you might get lost on the way so this could be longer but fun to be lost in Tokyo) to Shibuya Station for whatever line (but Inogashira Line is eventually good for this tour). 

On the way, you will pass Okamoto's outdoor artwork in front of Kodomono-shiro building. That's on your right. 
Kodomono-shiro (Children's Castle)
When you come to a folk, go downward along the right street and soon you will be at the famed scramble cross-ways at Shibuya Station. Travelers from abroad are always taking a movie there.

Take an escalator to the Inogashira Line. Instead of going to its ticket gates, turn back and walk just for a few dozen seconds and you will see the mural done by Okamoto entitled MYTHOLOGY OF TOMORROW. 
MYTHOLOGY OF TOMORROW
This completes a fantastic artistic walking tour featuring Taro Okamoto. The most famous piece done by him has to be THE TOWER OF THE SUN, which characterized the Osaka Exposition held in 1970.

Photography allowed at the museum inside and outside in the garden. 



Okamoto and a miniature tower of the sun



An ambulance was around; thus less pedestrians on the crossing




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