The Tokoro Museum is one of three extraordinary art galleries located close together on Oshima Island. Eccentric sculpture fills a bizarre building like a funicular railway station that clings to a hillside, providing striking contrasts between the art inside and the beautiful natural world outside. There’s nowhere else quite like it.
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The Tokoro Museum, Omishima
A bizarre gallery where art meets nature

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