Golden Week & Weekends/Holidays Only: Night Museum Starts – Yokai Come Alive After Closing? A Mystery-Solving Event to Seal Yokai
The Yokai Art Museum is launching a "Night Museum" event during Golden Week and on weekend/holiday evenings. This mystery-solving game, where visitors seal yokai that are said to come alive after closing, aims to promote nighttime tourism in Shodoshima and increase overnight stays. It offers a special experience different from daytime visits.
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The Yokai Art Museum (Director: Tadahei Yagyu) is starting a "Night Museum" event exclusively during Golden Week and on weekend/holiday evenings. The event is set with the premise that the yokai on display try to escape after the museum closes, and visitors get to experience a game of "sealing the yokai." Exploring the quiet museum after closing with a flashlight is a continuous thrill. This offers a special experience not possible during daytime museum hours.
Yokai Art Museum: An art museum dedicated to yokai, located in the "Maze Town" of Tonosho-cho, Shodoshima. The director is yokai artist Tadahei Yagyu. It exhibits yokai artworks in four traditional house galleries, with over 900 pieces in its collection. Modern yokai, newly created year after year, are gaining global attention, and a Japanese-English catalog book has been published by a French publisher. Official website: https://meipam.net/ Phone: 0879-62-0221
Boosting Shodoshima's Nighttime Tourism in Spring 2026
Approximately 70% of tourists visiting Shodoshima (about 1 million annually) are day-trippers (refer to Shodoshima Tourism Association HP: https://shodoshima.or.jp/info/), making an increase in overnight stays a challenge for Shodoshima. To help solve this problem, the Yokai Art Museum has been holding nighttime events unique to yokai, mainly in summer, to boost Shodoshima's nighttime tourism.
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000149.000005189.html
To further promote these efforts, we have decided to hold events that can be enjoyed at night even outside of summer.
Explore the quiet museum at night with a flashlight! Search for the words of sealing!
During the Night Museum event, the atmosphere inside the museum changes, and mysterious music plays. The yokai, usually quietly displayed during daytime operating hours, are set to come alive at night after closing and try to escape from the museum. Participants explore the museum while collecting spells (secret words) to seal them. The goal is reached when the spell is completed. As a souvenir, original goods (such as yokai talismans) will be given.
Explore the museum with a flashlight. *The content of the original goods may change.
Yokai that usually don't appear might only show up at night!?
Yokai appear on panels that usually only show forest scenery.
Yokai that go unnoticed during opening hours can be seen under specific conditions.
[Dates] Golden Week period ~ Weekends and holidays until the end of June
4/29 (Wed/Holiday), 4/30 (Thu), 5/1 (Fri), 5/2 (Sat), 5/3 (Sun/Holiday), 5/4 (Mon/Holiday), 5/5 (Tue/Holiday), 5/6 (Wed/Holiday), 5/7 (Thu), 5/8 (Fri), 5/9 (Sat), 5/10 (Sun), 5/16 (Sat), 5/17 (Sun), 5/23 (Sat), 5/24 (Sun), 5/30 (Sat), 5/31 (Sun), 6/6 (Sat), 6/7 (Sun), 6/13 (Sat), 6/14 (Sun), 6/20 (Sat), 6/21 (Sun), 6/27 (Sat), 6/28 (Sun)
[Time] 18:30-21:00 *Reception until 20:00.
[Admission] Adults 3,500 yen, Junior/High school students 1,750 yen, Elementary school students 900 yen (must be accompanied by a guardian)
[About the Yokai Art Museum]
A museum that exhibits and preserves over 1,000 yokai sculptures and paintings in the Maze Town of Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture. Visitors can tour four scattered traditional houses using a smartphone guide app, culminating in a surprising secret mechanism. You can enjoy learning about yokai from their origins to modern yokai. The director is Tadahei Yagyu, a yokai artist born in Shodoshima.
"Yokai (=YOKAI) to the World"
The attitude of flexibly living while accepting unreasonable events brings a subtle harmony to a diverse society. If such a tolerant yokai culture spreads, the world might become a little more peaceful than it is now. Through yokai, the Yokai Art Museum will deliver the spirit of diversity and tolerance, which breathes in Japan, to the world.
Yokai Art Museum: 398 Ko, Tonosho-cho, Shodogun, Kagawa Prefecture 0879-62-0221 mail@meipam.net
[About the operating company: Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.]
Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd., based in Shodoshima, Setouchi, cultivates olives and conducts research, development, manufacturing, and sales of products that utilize the entire "tree of life" olive to promote mental and physical health. We aim to realize "Hyakunen Tokowaka" (eternal youth for a hundred years), where everyone remains youthful in mind and body throughout their lives, and wish to contribute to society through the power of olives. In recent years, based on the concept of "Longevity," we have been proposing sustainable lifestyles that include mental and physical well-being, as well as cultural richness.
*"Hyakunen Tokowaka" is a concept advocated by our company.
Company Name: Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.
Location: Kagawa Prefecture
Yokai Art Museum: An art museum dedicated to yokai, located in the "Maze Town" of Tonosho-cho, Shodoshima. The director is yokai artist Tadahei Yagyu. It exhibits yokai artworks in four traditional house galleries, with over 900 pieces in its collection. Modern yokai, newly created year after year, are gaining global attention, and a Japanese-English catalog book has been published by a French publisher. Official website: https://meipam.net/ Phone: 0879-62-0221
Boosting Shodoshima's Nighttime Tourism in Spring 2026
Approximately 70% of tourists visiting Shodoshima (about 1 million annually) are day-trippers (refer to Shodoshima Tourism Association HP: https://shodoshima.or.jp/info/), making an increase in overnight stays a challenge for Shodoshima. To help solve this problem, the Yokai Art Museum has been holding nighttime events unique to yokai, mainly in summer, to boost Shodoshima's nighttime tourism.
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000149.000005189.html
To further promote these efforts, we have decided to hold events that can be enjoyed at night even outside of summer.
Explore the quiet museum at night with a flashlight! Search for the words of sealing!
During the Night Museum event, the atmosphere inside the museum changes, and mysterious music plays. The yokai, usually quietly displayed during daytime operating hours, are set to come alive at night after closing and try to escape from the museum. Participants explore the museum while collecting spells (secret words) to seal them. The goal is reached when the spell is completed. As a souvenir, original goods (such as yokai talismans) will be given.
Explore the museum with a flashlight. *The content of the original goods may change.
Yokai that usually don't appear might only show up at night!?
Yokai appear on panels that usually only show forest scenery.
Yokai that go unnoticed during opening hours can be seen under specific conditions.
[Dates] Golden Week period ~ Weekends and holidays until the end of June
4/29 (Wed/Holiday), 4/30 (Thu), 5/1 (Fri), 5/2 (Sat), 5/3 (Sun/Holiday), 5/4 (Mon/Holiday), 5/5 (Tue/Holiday), 5/6 (Wed/Holiday), 5/7 (Thu), 5/8 (Fri), 5/9 (Sat), 5/10 (Sun), 5/16 (Sat), 5/17 (Sun), 5/23 (Sat), 5/24 (Sun), 5/30 (Sat), 5/31 (Sun), 6/6 (Sat), 6/7 (Sun), 6/13 (Sat), 6/14 (Sun), 6/20 (Sat), 6/21 (Sun), 6/27 (Sat), 6/28 (Sun)
[Time] 18:30-21:00 *Reception until 20:00.
[Admission] Adults 3,500 yen, Junior/High school students 1,750 yen, Elementary school students 900 yen (must be accompanied by a guardian)
[About the Yokai Art Museum]
A museum that exhibits and preserves over 1,000 yokai sculptures and paintings in the Maze Town of Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture. Visitors can tour four scattered traditional houses using a smartphone guide app, culminating in a surprising secret mechanism. You can enjoy learning about yokai from their origins to modern yokai. The director is Tadahei Yagyu, a yokai artist born in Shodoshima.
"Yokai (=YOKAI) to the World"
The attitude of flexibly living while accepting unreasonable events brings a subtle harmony to a diverse society. If such a tolerant yokai culture spreads, the world might become a little more peaceful than it is now. Through yokai, the Yokai Art Museum will deliver the spirit of diversity and tolerance, which breathes in Japan, to the world.
Yokai Art Museum: 398 Ko, Tonosho-cho, Shodogun, Kagawa Prefecture 0879-62-0221 mail@meipam.net
[About the operating company: Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.]
Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd., based in Shodoshima, Setouchi, cultivates olives and conducts research, development, manufacturing, and sales of products that utilize the entire "tree of life" olive to promote mental and physical health. We aim to realize "Hyakunen Tokowaka" (eternal youth for a hundred years), where everyone remains youthful in mind and body throughout their lives, and wish to contribute to society through the power of olives. In recent years, based on the concept of "Longevity," we have been proposing sustainable lifestyles that include mental and physical well-being, as well as cultural richness.
*"Hyakunen Tokowaka" is a concept advocated by our company.
Company Name: Shodoshima Healthy Land Co., Ltd.
Location: Kagawa Prefecture