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Our guide
The Homma Museum of Art in Sakata shows the collection gathered by the Homma family, once the great landowners of the Shōnai plain. It is as much a garden as a museum: the Kyoto-style Seienkaku residence and the Kakubuen garden are part of the visit, and Homma ware, a folk pottery, is still fired in a kiln in a corner of the garden.
That matters when you plan, because the exhibition hall may close between exhibitions while the garden and Seienkaku stay open — so there is always something to see. From December to February the museum closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; the rest of the year it is open daily. A joint ticket adds the former Homma family main residence. Sakata Station is about 1.1 km away in a straight line.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- Honma Museum of Art, 15 August 2013 — 掬茶 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Seien-kaku in the Honma Museum of Art 001 — 掬茶 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Seien-kaku in the Honma Museum of Art 002 — 掬茶 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Seien-kaku in the Honma Museum of Art 003 — 掬茶 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- View from Seien-kaku — 掬茶 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- 鳥海山／本間美術館（酒田市） - panoramio — shikabane taro · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
What this place is
The Homma Museum of Art in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, shows the collection gathered by the Homma family, once the great landowners of the Shōnai plain. It is also a garden museum: the Kyoto-style Seienkaku residence and the Kakubuen garden are part of the visit, and Homma ware, a folk pottery, is still fired in a kiln in a corner of the garden.
Visitor information checked: 2026-09-14 · Homma Museum of Art: visitor information
Background text translated from Japanese Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
What to expect at this type of place: Museum
Nearby station
Nearby station: Sakata (Uetsu Main Line), about 1.1 km from the spot in a straight line.
Worked out on 2026-09-14 from this place’s map position, using HeartRails Express station data and station names from Wikidata. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route, and says nothing about buses, transfers or timetables — plan the trip on Google Maps.
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