Museums
Kyoto Museums
From national treasures to manga and trains: choose the collection that fits your interests.
Collections & Galleries
3 museums
Kyoto National Museum
Kyoto's main museum of Japanese art and antiquities: ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, Buddhist sculpture and painting spanning over a thousand years, housed partly in a Meiji-era red-brick building and partly in a modern wing.
Kyoto International Manga Museum
A former elementary school converted into a museum holding around 300,000 manga volumes, including a 200-metre "Wall of Manga" that visitors can pull books straight off and read on the spot, plus rotating exhibitions on manga history and artists.
Kyoto Railway Museum
One of Japan's largest railway museums, near Kyoto Station, with over 50 real locomotives and train cars, including a steam locomotive roundhouse still in occasional operation, plus a running steam train ride and detailed model layouts.
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A good guide fills in the history the labels leave out, whether that's a thousand years of Japanese art at the Kyoto National Museum or the story behind the manga wall next door.