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Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art opened its doors in 1996 with valuable architecture from the modern era built on land abundant in history, a site hosting both the heritage of pioneering artistic movements of the time and new contemporary architecture designed by the internationally renowned architect, Tadao Ando. In 2004, six buildings at Oyamazaki Villa–Seikei-ro (the current main building), Saigetsu-an (tea house), Tochinoki-chaya (tea house), Seika-rou (watchtower), former garage (the current rest house), and Roukan-do (the entrance tunnel to the garden grounds)–were designated Registered Tangible Cultural Properties. In 2017, twenty-one years after the opening of the Museum, total visitor numbers reached two million. The Museum has proved widely popular as a place to appreciate a unique art collection, architecture, and rich natural scenery.

Chochikukyo (1928), designed by architect Kōji Fujii, incorporating the achievements of his research in environmental engineering at Kyoto University, presents the ideal form of a universal “Japanese house” that is suited to Japan’s climate, culture, and people’s sensibilities and lifestyles. In 1999, “Chochikukyo” was selected as one of the first 20 works representing Japanese modernist architecture by docomomo, and in 2017, it became the first house built by a Showa-era architect to be designated as a national important cultural property.