Museums in Kyoto

14 places across 6 neighbourhoods, 2 of them free to enter, the most featured first.

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  1. Museum · Kyoto Station

    Kyoto Railway Museum 京都鉄道博物館

    Opened by JR West in 2016, the museum displays over 50 retired trains from steam locomotives to shinkansen across three floors, plus a working roundhouse from 1914.

    Umekoji-Kyotonishi (JR Sagano Line), 3 min walk · Paid entry · 2 h 30 min

  2. Museum · Kyoto Station

    Kyoto Aquarium 京都水族館

    An aquarium opened in 2012 in Umekoji Park, about 1 km west of Kyoto Station.

    Umekoji-Kyotonishi (JR Sagano Line), 7 min walk · Paid entry · 2 h

  3. Museum · Shijo-Karasuma

    Kyoto International Manga Museum 京都国際マンガミュージアム

    Opened in 2006 in a former elementary school, the museum's walls are lined with shelves of manga that visitors can take down and read.

    Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 2 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h 30 min

  4. Museum · Shijo-Karasuma

    Museum of Kyoto 京都文化博物館

    A museum of Kyoto's history and culture at the corner of Sanjo and Takakura streets, with a permanent exhibition and changing special exhibitions.

    Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h

  5. Museum · Kiyomizu-Gojo

    Kyoto National Museum 京都国立博物館

    Opened in 1897, one of Japan's four national museums.

    Shichijo (Keihan Main Line), 5 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h 30 min

  6. Museum · Okazaki

    Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art 京都市京セラ美術館

    The municipal art museum in Okazaki, facing the National Museum of Modern Art across the approach to Heian Shrine.

    Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h 30 min

  7. Museum · Okazaki

    National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 京都国立近代美術館

    A national museum of modern art and design in Okazaki, opposite the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art.

    Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 7 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h 15 min

  8. Museum · Fushimi

    Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum 月桂冠大倉記念館

    A museum of sake making run by Gekkeikan, a brewer founded in Fushimi in 1637, housed in an old brewery building.

    Chushojima (Keihan Main Line), 5 min walk · Paid entry · 45 min

  9. Museum · Shijo-Karasuma

    Kyoto Art Center 京都芸術センター

    A public arts centre in the 1931 building of the former Meirin Elementary School, which opened in 1869 and closed in 1993.

    Shijo (Karasuma Line), 6 min walk · Free entry · 40 min

  10. Museum · Kiyomizu-Gojo

    Kawai Kanjiro's House 河井寬次郎記念館

    The house, studio and climbing kiln that the potter Kawai Kanjiro designed in 1937 and lived in for the rest of his life, near Gojozaka.

    Kiyomizu-Gojo (Keihan Main Line), 10 min walk · Paid entry · 45 min

  11. Museum · Okazaki

    Kyoto City Zoo 京都市動物園

    A city zoo in a corner of Okazaki Park, opened in 1903 as the second oldest zoo in Japan after Ueno.

    Keage (Tozai Line), 12 min walk · Paid entry · 2 h

  12. Museum · Okazaki

    Hosomi Museum 細見美術館

    A private museum opened in 1998 on Niomon-dori in Okazaki, showing rotating exhibitions from the Hosomi family collection of Japanese art, strong in Rimpa painting and works by Ito Jakuchu.

    Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h

  13. Museum · Okazaki

    Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design 京都伝統産業ミュージアム

    A museum of Kyoto's traditional crafts in the basement of the Miyako Messe exhibition hall, just south of Heian Shrine, with displays and explanations of the city's crafts from textiles to lacquer and ceramics, plus yuzen dyeing workshops and artisan demonstrations.

    Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 10 min walk · Paid entry · 1 h

  14. Museum · Kinkaku-ji and Kitano

    Nishijin Textile Center 西陣織会館

    The showroom of the Nishijin weaving industry association at Horikawa and Imadegawa, with daily kimono shows, displays on the history of Nishijin weaving, demonstrations by artisans and a shop.

    Horikawa Imadegawa bus stop (Kyoto City Bus 9), 1 min walk · Free entry · 45 min

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