A tea lounge on the first floor of the Narukawa Art Museum, where a 50-metre wall of glass frames Lake Ashi, the red torii of Hakone Shrine and Mount Fuji beyond, a view that reads like a framed painting. Sofa seating and a hushed, gallery-like calm suit long, slow pauses. The museum opened in 1988 to house Minoru Narukawa's collection of modern Nihonga, and the lounge takes its name from a Yamamoto Kyujin work in that collection. Tea and cake arrive in vessels by glass artist Koji Ishii and potter Ryo Mikami, alongside matcha sets with seasonal namagashi, hot sandwiches and mixed pizza.