Open Hours

9:30 to 17:00 (gate closes at 16:30) from Tuesday to Sunday

 

Closed Days

1. Monday (except when Monday is part of the holiday weekend, then the next day is closed, instead of Monday)
2. New Year Holiday: December 29 to January 3
3. Closed periodically: During the period when museum reorganizes its display

 

Admission Fees

1. Permanent Exhibition: General public \340 (\270), University student \230 (\180)
   *( ) indicates for group rate with more than 20 people. For more detail about group rate, please see below “Group”
2. Special Exhibition: Different admission fees 
   *Special Exhibition ticket also includes fee for Permanent Exhibition
3. Admission fees are free for high school student or younger, senior citizen (>65), people with disability, exchange students and foreign students living in Wakayama, for both Permanent Exhibition and Special Exhibition
   *It still requires an admission ticket.  Please show the relevant ID card (student ID etc.) at Information Desk.
4. Discount and Fee Waiver
   Discount
   • With admission ticket of Wakayama Prefecture Museum of History (same day only)
   • Mail-magazine subscriber (with print-out of the latest issue within expiry date)

     Please click here for mail-magazine

   • With “Castle Town Tour” Day Pass (same day only)

     Please click here for “Castle Town Tour” Day Pass

   • Group with more than 20 people (not those in free admission category)

     Please see  “Group”

   Fee Wavier
   • Kiyo Cultural Foundation: With invitation tickets by Kiyo Cultural Foundation

     Please click here for Kiyo Cultural Foundation

   • On 4th Saturday of the month, admission is free for university students
   • Members: Friends of the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama (with Membership Card)

     Please click here for “Friends of the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama”

 

About Group

1. For a group of more than 20 people (not in free admission category), group discount applies  

   Please click here about discount

2. For a group of people who qualify for free admission, please fill up the form

   Please click here for the group admission form

3. For a school visit, please click here

 

Information on Barrier-Free Facilities

1. For People with disability and with infant
   • Wheel chairs and baby-carts are available. Please ask at Information Desk
   • Restroom facility for special needs is available

   • About parking for people with disability, please click here

 

Address

Address	〒640-8137 1-4-14 Fukiage Wakayama-City [South of the Wakayama Castle, across the intersection “Wakayama Prefecture Office (Kencho mae)” ]
Tel	073-436-8690

 

Access

1. By bus
   From JR Wakayama Station or Nankai Line Wakayama City Station, about 10 minutes
   Take a bus “Wakauraguchi” direction, and get off at “Kencho mae” stop, walk 2 minutes
2. By taxi
   From JR Wakayama Station, about 10 minutes; From Nankai Line Wakayama City Station, about 5 minutes
3. By car
   From Hanwa Expressway Wakayama Exit, about 15 minutes towards the Wakayama Castle direction

 

Parking

1. Parking fee
   First hour \300, and after the first hour, \100 for every 30 minutes
   *For the museum visit, please show the parking ticket at Information Desk and visitors can get \100 discount
2. Hours
   9:00 to 18:00 (Attention: Parking gate closes at 18:00)
3. Maximum of parking spaces for 90 cars

Please click here for parking space

 

In order to provide maximum quality of the Museum environment as well as to protect art works, we ask for your understanding and cooperation on the following:

1. Please do not touch art works
2. Please refrain from the use of mobile phone
3. Inside the Museum, including exhibition hall, smoking is not permitted
4. Inside the Museum, including exhibition hall, food and drink (including candy and gum) are not permitted
5. Please do not carry umbrella and large carry-bags inside the Museum. Use coin-locker or keep them at Information Desk
6. Please do not use ball-pen or other writing instruments that require ink. Pencils are available at Information Desk and at the entrance to the exhibition hall
7. About photographs
   • Photographing at the Permanent Display Hall and Entrance area is basically permitted except for the use of flash, other lighting devices, and camera stand. Depending on the object being photographed, there could be exceptions. Please ask.
   • Photographing of special exhibition is basically not permitted. Please ask for details.
   • For press and media, flash and camera stand may be allowed 
8. Dogs, cats and other pets are not permitted. However assistance dogs are permitted
9. Please follow the guidance of the Museum personnel.