Museum：10：00～18：00

Closed

The Museum is closed every Tuesday, except on these Tuesdays:
　March 20, 2012; April 3, 2012; May 1, 2012; July 24, 2012; August 14, 2012; December 25, 2012.

The Museum is also closed at Year-end and for New Year's Holidays, and for periodic maintenance:
　Periodic Maintenance 1: May 22, 2012 through June 1, 2012
　Periodic Maintenance 2: November 6, 2012 through November 16, 2012
　Year-end and New Year Holidays: December 27, 2012 through January 2, 2013

Please click here for the Museum Calendar (subject to change)

＊Please check with designated local travel agencies.

Tickets

Entrance to the Ghibli Museum is strictly by advance purchase of a reserved ticket which specifies the appointed date of the reservation.

>>How to buy tickets outside Japan

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Once you purchase a reserved tickets, no changes or refunds are allowed.
When you enter the Museum, you will exchange your reserved ticket with a "film" ticket (Only one film ticket per person).

Admission Fees

Over Age 19 ¥1,000
Age 13-18 ¥700
Age 7-12 ¥400
Age 4-6 ¥100

＊Children under 4 are admitted free of charge.
＊When purchasing the tickets outside Japan, charges will be calculated in your local currency at the current rate of exchange, and will also include a handling fee.

Special access for the Physically Handicapped

Restrooms

The Museum offers handicapped use facilities in restrooms on all floors (four either-sex facilities inside, and one facility each for males and females outside the Museum building). We also provide stands for chansing baby's diapers.

The Saturn Theater

Hearing assistance earphones are available for loan for the hearing impaired. As of now, only japanese is available.

For visitors using wheelchairs

All facilities in the three-story museum building excluding the roof garden are accessible by wheelchair. Wheelchairs are available for loan at the Museum. There is no elevator or other way to ascend from the second floor to the roof garden, except by the stairs.

For visitors who do not feel well

There are spaces available where you can rest.
Please ask our museum staff for details.

"The View from the Cat Bus" - A Special Exhibition
The Ghibli Museum, Mitaka will present a new Special Exhibition "The View from the Cat Bus" beginning in June 2011.

Beautifully hand painted backgrounds which serve as the platform upon which to stage the tale are a hallmark of Studio Ghibli filmmaking. The style and technique of the art may vary from film to film, but the artists' ability to capture colors as they appear in the dazzling sunlight and to transfer them to the movie screen is present in all Ghibli films. By having the chance to look closely at the background pictures, we have a chance to feel what the artists intended to express and to see how they realized their visions.

The exhibition presents the background art separated from the other elements that go into the film and in combination with three-dimensional models, lit in such a way as to enhance the feeling of being inside the film's setting. The intent is to allow the visitor to appreciate the artwork anew and to come to appreciate how the light and space is manipulated in order to create a heightened emotional effect.

The first exhibition room will feature background art from MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO. The idealized landscapes from this film have become iconic representations of the Japanese countryside and instilled in generations of Japanese moviegoers a longing for a simpler, less complicated past. They call up fond memories of exciting days spent under the summer sun and the peaceful melancholy of a rural twilight. And not only the children but adults as well will have the privilege to take a ride in the Cat Bus and rediscover their childhood by regarding the view from within the magical creature.

In the second exhibition room, visitors will alight from the Cat Bus and find themselves in a scene from another Ghibli film. In the antique shop Earth Emporium that was depicted in the film WHISPER OF THE HEART. In the street-side restaurants for spirits or in Yubaba's bathhouse residence from the film SPIRITED AWAY. In the shop where Sophie works making hats from the film HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. Or deep in the forest of the Great Deer God from the film PRINCESS MONONOKE.

We hope that visitors to the exhibition will come to appreciate the beauty and the evocative power of the art that goes into the making of the backgrounds for Ghibli's films.

【Organizer】 Tokuma Memorial Cultural Foundation for Animation
©1988 Nibariki - Ｇ　©Nibariki　©Museo d'Arte Ghibli

The Cat Bus is for elementary school children and under (age 12 and under) only.

Passing behind the Robot Soldier you will find yourself in a patch of wildly growing vegetation which makes you forget that you are on a building and not in the park itself. Please take a moment to experience the seasonally changing plant life.

(The Theater houses approximately 80 seats, with a dts sound system)

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