Photo: ゆうけい.
Art House Project
Overview
Seven traditional Honmura houses converted into permanent art installations across the old fishing village.
Seven empty houses in Naoshima's old Honmura fishing village were taken over from 1998 onward by artists invited to permanently transform them. Tatsuo Miyajima's Kadoya counts LED digits in a flooded floor; James Turrell's Minamidera is a dark-adaptation chamber housed inside a Tadao Ando shell; Hiroshi Sugimoto's Go'o Shrine connects an above-ground shrine to a glass-stairs underground chamber. Visit on foot with a single ticket and walk between the houses through the village's narrow lanes.
Local tips
Buy the multi-house ticket at Honmura Lounge & Archive; Minamidera requires a timed entry — book that one first.
Practical info
- Japanese name
- 家プロジェクト
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