Garden
The clear air and rich verdure of the highlands are truly the blessings of nature. On a fine day, with coffee or tea brimming in a Meissen cup, the garden is yours to enjoy. Lose track of time as you enjoy a relaxing moment in the stillness.

Here in the Hakone Meissen Garden Museum we have over 300 items on display, with old Meissen porcelain pieces on the first floor and European antique cups & saucers on the second floor. At present, the museum owns more than 1,000 pieces, so we rotate exhibits twice yearly in order to enable visitors opportunities to view as many pieces as possible. Moreover, from within the museum, one can enjoy the view out onto the garden and a dashingly scenic vista of Hakone and Sengokuhara, where flowers and chirping wild birds fill the four seasons of this natural habitat. We hope you will add us to your itinerary-as an essence of your sojourn-to enjoy the fabulous Meissen porcelain that the aristocracy of Europe loved so abidingly.

Sumiko Murata

Curator of the Hakone Meissen Garden Museum
Sumiko Murata

Since commencing production of the first truly hard porcelain in Europe in 1710. The Meissen kilns have produced the finest European porcelain objects, lovingly used by rulers and the aristocracy as furnishings to ornament their courts. Among these, the wide-selection of porcelain figurines and animals - probably Meissen at its most exquisite- are created and decorated with the sublime skills, which still leave many people spellbound, even today.