Source: hasegawamachiko.jp (in Japanese)Checked 21 Oct 2026

Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum Hours: Closed Mondays, and One Ticket Covers Both Buildings

The Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum in Sakura-shimmachi, Setagaya, Tokyo, is open 10:00–17:30, with entry until 16:30. It closes on Mondays; when a Monday is a public holiday, it opens that day and closes on the Tuesday instead. It also closes between exhibitions and over the New Year holidays. One ticket, 900 yen for general admission, covers both the art museum and the Hasegawa Machiko Memorial Museum across the street.

Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子) was the author of the manga Sazae-san (サザエさん), which the museum says marked 80 years on 22 April 2026. The museum’s own site is in Japanese. Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum and Hasegawa Machiko Memorial Museum are the English names used by GO TOKYO, Tokyo’s official travel guide.

This guide covers the open days, including the changes in early November 2026, the ticket, what is on show, the shop and café, and the walk from the station.

Quick Facts

Sources: the museum’s top page, with its visitor information, access and news, and its memorial museum, collection exhibition, special exhibition and shop and café pages, all in Japanese; GO TOKYO’s English Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum page; and Tokyu’s English Den-en-toshi Line page. Checked 21 October 2026.

When the Museum Is Open, and When the Closed Day Moves

The museum is closed on Mondays. When a Monday is a public holiday, it opens that day and closes on the Tuesday instead. The museum’s top page, in Japanese, gives this rule, and its exhibition pages list Monday 12 October 2026 as open and Tuesday 13 October as closed.

The museum has also announced that Monday 2 November 2026, normally a closed day, is an opening day, 10:00–17:30, with last entry at 16:30.

It closes between exhibitions too, and over the New Year holidays. For the last change of exhibitions, from 7 to 14 September 2026, both buildings were closed, the shop and café included.

GO TOKYO’s English page gives the same hours and Monday rule, and lists closings between exhibitions.

Tickets: One Ticket for Both Buildings

One ticket covers both the art museum and the memorial museum. The top page lists these prices, tax included:

Groups of 20 or more, and holders of a disability certificate and their carers, pay 800, 700, 400 and 300 yen. The same section mentions the Tokyo Museum Grutto Pass (東京・ミュージアム ぐるっとパス), a set of admission and discount tickets for museums and other sites mainly in Tokyo, and says that if you are visiting only this museum, you buy your ticket at its reception.

On Tuesday 3 November 2026, a public holiday, admission to both buildings is free for everyone. The museum says it opened on 3 November 1985 and marks 41 years this year. It expects crowds that day and says it may limit entry.

What Is On Until 8 November 2026

Both buildings’ current exhibitions end on Sunday 8 November 2026.

The memorial museum also has permanent displays. The ground-floor room covers her works Sazae-san, Apron Obasan (エプロンおばさん) and Ijiwaru Baasan (いじわるばあさん), the last two in our romanization, in both digital and analogue displays. The room upstairs (2F) covers her life from childhood to after her death, with photographs and original drawings.

When we checked on 21 October 2026, the museum’s pages did not list the exhibitions after 8 November or the dates of the closure between them.

The Museum Shop and Café

Both are on the ground floor of the memorial museum, and both close on the same days as the memorial museum. The shop and café page gives the shop’s hours as 10:00–17:30, and the café’s as 10:00–17:30, with last orders at 17:00.

The café serves hōjicha (roasted green tea) with dried papaya. The page says that when the café was planned, the museum looked into what Machiko Hasegawa used to drink, and learned that she drank hōjicha almost exclusively and ate half a papaya nearly every day.

Getting to the Museum

Walk 7 minutes from Sakura-shimmachi Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line. The museum’s top page gives the walk, and GO TOKYO’s English page adds that it is from the West Exit. Tokyu’s English Den-en-toshi Line page lists the stations from Shibuya in this order: Shibuya, Ikejiri-ōhashi, Sangen-jaya, Komazawa-daigaku, then Sakura-shimmachi.

The top page says parking is limited, to about 5 spaces including accessible ones, and asks you to use public transport unless you need to come by car.

Where to stay
Places to stay in Setagaya (Booking.com)
What this is
The museum is in Setagaya. If you want to stay in the same ward, this opens a hotel search for Setagaya, Tokyo, so you can set your own dates. We have not stayed at any of these. We are not recommending a hotel — we are pointing you at the list.

Before You Go

Before you set off, open the news on the museum’s top page and check whether your day is an opening day, especially near a public holiday or the end of an exhibition. If you go on 3 November 2026, the free day, note that the museum says it may limit entry.

Sources: the museum’s top page and its memorial museum, collection exhibition, special exhibition, and shop and café pages (all in Japanese), GO TOKYO’s English Hasegawa Machiko Art Museum page, and Tokyu’s English Den-en-toshi Line page, all linked under Quick Facts. Checked 21 October 2026.

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