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Yayoi Kusama's yellow pumpkin sculpture with black dots on a concrete pier on Naoshima, grey sea and low mountains behindA stone torii gate on sand with pebbles stacked along its beams and the sea behindA white car ferry painted with large red dots, moored at a quay under a deep blue skyA red lighthouse on a breakwater, with the Takamatsu waterfront and green hills behind

Naoshima, Kagawa

Naoshima: What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Naoshima's art sits in three places: Chichu Art Museum, Benesse House Museum, Lee Ufan Museum and the yellow Pumpkin in the Benesse area; the Art House Project, ANDO MUSEUM and the Naoshima New Museum of Art in and near Honmura; and the I♥湯 bath and the Red Pumpkin at Miyanoura port. Chichu needs a timed online ticket, and most sites close on Mondays.

The pages below cover what to do on the island, with Teshima Art Museum as a boat trip, and where to stay: in the Benesse area, Miyanoura or Honmura, or across the water at Uno (about 20 minutes by ferry) or Takamatsu (about 30 minutes by high-speed boat).

Naoshima: things to do, where to stay