INAX　世界のタイル博物館

From a single tile - The only tile museum in Japan that guides you through the history of the world's ceramics culture and the technology for creating tiles using clay and fire

INAX TILE MUSEUM is the only museum in Japan that specializes in tiles. In the museum, mainly the tile collection of Mr. Masayuki Yamamoto (tile researcher) is exhibited for the museum visitors to see, study and discover the various attractive features of tiles.


The main exhibits in the museum are the tiles of historical value, which Mr. Yamamoto has collected from all over the world, spending more than fifty years doing so. In 1991, Mr. Yamamoto donated approximately 6,000 tiles and other ceramic ware he had collected to Tokoname city. INAX was entrusted by Tokoname City with their conservation, the administration and research, and opened the museum in April 1997 with the cooperation of Mr. Yamamoto, Tokoname City and other related parties.





The miraculous space of magnificent decorative tiles was created by humans and that human spirit still touches us. This INAX Museums has realistically reproduced the space of the decorative tiles according to the times, such as Claypeg of 5,500 years ago, the oldest Egyptian tile of 4,650 years ago, the ceiling of the Islamic Dome, etc… It is a very unique museum which you will never experience anywhere else in the world. Please enjoy the infinite potential of the human spirit to decorate.

Under the concept of introducing the culture of ceramics more widely, we regularly hold special exhibitions from the museum collection as well as exhibitions of domestic and overseas ceramic artists.

In the seven gallery rooms on the second floor, namely the Orient, Islam, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom, China, and Japan rooms - approximately 1,000 tiles from the Yamamoto and the Inax collection are exhibited. The interior of each exhibition room is decorated with the reproduced tiles for museum visitors to experience the atmosphere of the locality and the period relating to the original tiles.

Open hours

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Last admission 5:30 p.m.)

Closed
The third Wednesdays of each month (if the third Wednesday
is a national holiday,
MUSEUMS will close Thursday instead) and Year-end and New Year holidays

Admission charges*
600 yen, High School & University Students: 400 yen,
Elementary & Jr. High School Students: 200 yen
(Tax included, Group discount available)
*The admission charge includes admission to all the five parts of INAX MUSEUMS.

Access
From "Tokoname Station" on the Meitetsu Tokoname Line;
　□　Take a bus for "Chita Handa Station", get off the bus at "INAX MUSEUMS"
　　　and walk 2 minutes.
　□　Take the Tokotoko circular route sightseeing bus to the "INAX MUSEUMS"
　　　stop. (In service on weekends and national holidays only.)
　□　6 minutes by car(Parking space for passenger vehicles and buses available)

From Chita Hanto Road, 15 minutes from Handa IC by car

1-130 Okuei-cho, Tokoname city, Aichi Prefecture 479-8586
Tel. 0569-34-8282 Fax. 0569-34-8283
http://www.inax.co.jp/ilm/english/