Japan Guide
Kyūshū
Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan
The city's art museum, Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan, is situated in the southeast corner of Ōhori-kōen park. Its three ground-floor rooms contain a hotchpotch of early Japanese and Asian art, including the Kuroda family treasures and several eye-catching statues of Buddhism's twelve guardian generals (Jūni Jinsho), each crowned with his associated zodiacal beast. Upstairs you leap a few centuries to the likes of Dali, Miró and Chagall in a great retrospective of twentieth-century Western art, displayed alongside contemporary Japanese works. Address: Ōhori-kōen Opening time: July & Aug Tues– Sat 9.30am–7.30pm, Sun 9.30am–5.30pm; Sept– June Tues– Sun 9.30am–5.30pm Price: ¥200 
www.fukuoka-art-museum.jp