Founded by an ambitious Buddhist priest and designed by famed Metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa, the Louvre Sculpture Museum stands as a unique, officially sanctioned Japanese sister site to the Paris original. Beneath a gleaming glass pyramid, the museum showcases over 1,300 meticulous replicas of world-famous masterpieces, including the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and King Tutankhamun's gold mask. The collection also boasts a rare, authentic Senju-Kannon statue carved with a literal one thousand arms. Situated within a delightfully surreal temple complex overseen by a 33-meter golden deity, it makes for one of Japan's most fascinatingly eccentric cultural stops.
- Art Museums
- Sculptures
- Architecture
- Unusual Attractions
- Buddhist Temples
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