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Naoshima is an island in the Seto Inland Sea, located approximately 13 kilometres north of Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture and two kilometres south of Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture.
Naoshima and the group of islands surrounding it make up the administrative unit of Naoshima-cho, Kagawa Prefecture.
The main reason for visiting the island is to see the art museums, famed for their contemporary exhibitions and progressive attitude toward the creation and nurturing of new talents. There are two museums on the island that can be visited.
Chichu Art Museum
Chichu Art Museum was established in 2004 as a site to rethink the relationship between nature and people. The museum, managed by Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, is located on the south side of Naoshima, an island of the Inland Sea of Japan. The artworks of Claude Monet, Walter De Maria and James Turrell are installed permanently within the building that Tadao Ando designed.
Benesse Art Site Naoshima
The "Benesse Art Site Naoshima" is a collective term for the Benesse Corporation's contemporary art activities in Naoshima, Kagawa. Since the opening of "Benesse House" in 1992, art sites have been made in Naoshima that confront nature, architecture and history. In Naoshima, artworks are created using the "site specific" method.
In other words, invited artists visit and select a site in Naoshima, and then plan and produce work for that site. In the past, artists such as Walter De Maria, Jannis Kounellis, and Richard Long have used this method to create works that exist permanently after completion.
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Suggested itinerary featuring Naoshima
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Places near Naoshima
- Takamatsu 10 miles away
- Kurashiki 16 miles away
- Iya Valley 40 miles away
- Tokushima 43 miles away
- Shikoku 55 miles away
- Tottori 74 miles away
- Matsuyama 83 miles away
- Matsue 87 miles away
- Hiroshima 88 miles away
- Osaka 88 miles away
- Kinosaki Onsen 94 miles away
- Mount Koya 95 miles away
- Miyajima Island 97 miles away
- Nara 104 miles away
- Kyoto 109 miles away
- Beppu 167 miles away
- Yufuin 171 miles away
- Kurokawa 190 miles away
- Kyushu 199 miles away
- Aso 201 miles away
- Shirakawago 207 miles away
- Kanazawa 210 miles away
- Fukuoka 215 miles away
- Takayama 218 miles away
- Tsumago 219 miles away
- Kumamoto 221 miles away
- Tateyama 242 miles away
- Kamikochi 244 miles away
- Kirishima National Park 252 miles away
- Matsumoto 256 miles away
- Nagasaki 265 miles away
- Hakuba 265 miles away
- The Japanese Alps 266 miles away
- Noto Peninsula 281 miles away
- Kagoshima 284 miles away
- Izu Peninsula 285 miles away
- Hakone & Mount Fuji 291 miles away
- Yudanaka 295 miles away
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