Hara Museum ARC

Enjoy a delicious cup of coffee with a panoramic view. With its large windows and high ceilings, the Café d’Art offers visitors a relaxing environment in which to enjoy delicious freshly brewed coffee, special sandwiches and pasta dishes made with fresh, locally produced ingredients from Gunma prefecture. An additional treat is the cafe’s own Image Cake whose theme is inspired by the current exhibition. We await your visit.

* Admission to the museum is required to use the Café d’Art.

Special “Image Cake” that is visually pleasant and lip-smacking.

Our striking Image Cake is inspired by a work in the current show. Please stop by the cafe after seeing the exhibition to give it a try. Note that only a limited number of servings are prepared each day.

Grasping at Clouds: Selections from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections (2022)

Jean-Michel Otoniel’s Kokoro is the motif for this rare cheese cake with a shimmering coat of framboise icing that is sweet and refreshingly citrus at the same time.

A Nexus of Rainbows: Selections from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections Part I/Part II (2021)

This cake, with its rich pumpkin flavor and light custard sauce, takes as its inspiration the semi-permanent installation Mirror Room (Pumpkin) by Yayoi Kusama.

Izumi Kato-LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL (2019)

This chocolate cake takes on the human form characteristic of Izumi Kato’s work but with an impressive close-up on the face part.

A Shout Out for Art from the Center of Japan (2024)

Yasuhiro Suzuki’s Bench of the Japanese Archipelago is the inspiration for this Image Cake. Consisting of a chocolate cake with the rich flavor of couverture chocolate, it is highlighted by the addition of a “belly button” on the Japan-shaped cookie created with a custom-made cookie mold.