It may be a bit of a surprise to some, but Yokosuka City has a very well-conceived and constructed Museum of Art ..... here is its website:
One person who visited the museum a few years ago had the following to say:
"Located off of seaside Route 16 ..... The museum is surrounded by natural beauty ..... the main entrance faces Tokyo Bay with walkways along the perimeter that lead to a secondary access located on the rooftop terrace surrounded by lush Yokosuka mountains ..... The steel-grated rooftop walkway design reminded me of a splash of water with its unexpected curves leading you to the sky blue views of the bay and observatory entrance ..... The exhibit spaces are nested in white boxes with circle shaped cutout windows, all encased in glass walls that invite in the natural light ..... Traditional Japanese fabric dividers, “noren”, hang between the Special Exhibit Halls on the main floor ..... The rest of the gallery can be viewed at basement level where most of the pristine white walls stretch to the second floor ceiling"
The rest of the description is at this link:
Yokosuka's Museum of Art opened in 2007, in the rich natural surroundings of Kannonzaki Park, and as part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Yokosuka City ..... It has become well-known as a top-level "Scenic Art Museum" in Japan ..... it also hosts “ACQUAMARE”, a high-class Italian restaurant ..... I remember that the museum came to be built due to the insistent leadership of then-Yokosuka Mayor Hideo Sawada ..... although some of his constituents were opposed to spending so many millions of city funds on an "impractical" facility, Sawada strongly felt that an blue-collar navy town like Yokosuka deserved to have some high culture, and so he pushed the project through to completion...
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