Event details
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| When | 18 July to 7 September 2026 |
| Hours | 9:00-17:00, last entry 16:30 |
| Closed | Tuesdays (open on Tuesday 11 August) |
| Where | Yamanashi Prefectural Museum, 1501-1 Narita, Misaka-cho, Fuefuki, Yamanashi |
| Admission | Adults ¥1,000, university students ¥500. Free for high school students and younger. |
Why it matters for anime fans
Yuru Camp△ is set mostly in Yamanashi, and the girls of Motosu High School camp, ride the Minobu Line and soak in hot springs at real places across the prefecture. This exhibition looks at those places as a historian would: why Mt. Fuji drew pilgrims long before campers, why several of the places the characters visit matter in Yamanashi’s history, and what the towns along the Minobu Line have kept from their past.
What you can see and do
- A prologue on the history of camping. Samurai war camps, with Takeda Shingen as the best-known example from Yamanashi.
- Mt. Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes, from a sacred mountain to a place for tourists from home and abroad.
- Views over the Kofu Basin, its peach and grape orchards, and the places the characters visit that matter in Yamanashi’s history, starting with the Takeda clan.
- Hot springs the characters visit, including ones they have not been to yet, and how hot spring tourism grew in Yamanashi.
- The Minobu Line, where most of the main characters live, in the towns of Nanbu and Minobu. The chapter also covers nearby Hayakawa.
- Where to go next. Places in Yamanashi the characters have not visited, chosen by the museum.
Tickets, booking and limited items
| Ticket | Adults | University students |
|---|---|---|
| Exhibition only | ¥1,000 | ¥500 |
| Groups of 20 or more, or staying in Yamanashi | ¥840 | ¥420 |
| Exhibition and permanent galleries | ¥1,260 | ¥590 |
- Free entry for high school students and younger, Yamanashi residents aged 65 or over, and people with disabilities and their carers. Bring something that shows you qualify.
- The hotel discount is for guests at a hotel or ryokan in Yamanashi on the day of your visit or the night before. Show your booking confirmation or receipt at the ticket desk.
- A free gift for the first 150 visitors each day: a character “temporary staff pass”, one of six designs at random. On the last three days, 5 to 7 September, it went to the first 200.
Getting there
The nearest station is Isawa-Onsen on the JR Chuo Line. From Shinjuku, take a limited express towards Kofu and check that your train stops at Isawa-Onsen; if it does not, ride on to Kofu and take the bus from there. For tickets and seats, see our Trains & Tickets guide.
| From | How | Time and fare |
|---|---|---|
| Isawa-Onsen Station | Fujikyu bus for Fujisan Station, to the Yamanashi Kenritsu Hakubutsukan (Prefectural Museum) stop, then 3 min on foot | About 15 min, ¥250 |
| Isawa-Onsen Station | Taxi | About ¥1,200 |
| Kofu Station | Fujikyu bus for Fujisan Station from stop 5 at the south exit (some buses use the north exit) | About 40 min, ¥560 |
| Kawaguchiko Station | Fujikyu bus for Kofu Station | About 50 min, ¥1,360 |
You can also walk from Isawa-Onsen Station in about 35 min, but parts of the pavement are narrow. If you drive, the museum has 180 free parking spaces, about 8 min from the Ichinomiya-Misaka exit of the Chuo Expressway.
Where to stay
Kofu Station has the widest choice of hotels, and the bus to the museum leaves from the south exit. A night in Yamanashi before your visit also gets you the hotel discount.
Toyoko Inn Kofu-eki Minami-guchi No. 2First choice
About 1 min on foot from Kofu Station, close to the bus stop for the museum.
Dormy Inn Kofu Marunouchi
About 8 min on foot from Kofu Station, with a natural hot spring bath for the evening.
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