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globetrotting art pilgrims. In addition to
traditional gallery spaces, the Museum’s
artworks are also displayed throughout the
entire complex including in the bedrooms.

four of the museum’s lodging options.
Standing on a hill and reached by monorail
from the museum, this space has just six
guestrooms, fusing Setouchi’s natural
beauty with Ando’s architecture. Vast
floor-to-ceiling windows in the guestroom
offer a sweeping view of the Inland Sea,
and the wall of our bedroom is decorated
with drawings by famous artists. This
spare space has a dramatic black oval pool,
and blends seamlessly into the natural
surroundings, with tumbling waterfalls
and a grassy rooftop lawn making it a
unique and peaceful place to stay.

There are nearly twenty art pieces located There is a
on the lawns and beaches around the rooftop café; and a
Benesse House, including the iconic Yayoi restaurant, Issen,
Kusama pumpkin, perhaps one of the most on the ground floor
visited art pieces ever. of Benesse House
Museum, with
Tado Ando’s sleek structure, a six-room large windows
hilltop annex called the Oval, where we framing the Seto
stayed, opened in 1995, and is one of the Inland Sea. Two

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