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Things to do in Kyoto, Kinki: The Best Specialty Museums
The shrines and temples of Kyoto offer a rare link between modern life in the city and its very ancient past. The Shimogamo Shrine dates to the 6th century and seems suspended in time, its serenity and spiritual power still palpable. Visit Fushimi Inari Shrine, then see the life-sized Thousand Armed Kannon statues of Sanjūsangen-dō. Enjoy traditional geisha performances, then savor a tranquil meal at a restaurant overlooking the Kamo River.
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1. Kaleidoscope Museum of Kyoto
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By Rodwilde - Guam, Mariana Islands
On a side street near a subway station, the museum offers a small exhibit of all kinds of different styles of kaleidoscopes, and a short video while we were there. The kids enjoyed it a lot. There is an excellent gift shop, and a coffee shop (which also serves a limited food menu). The coffee shop seating area also doubles as a workshop, and for around $5 our kids were assisted to make their own kaleidoscope in about 20 minutes. We purchased gifts for fields back home, and a signature kaleidoscope for our home. Most enjoyable.
2. Kyoto Greek Roman Museum
3. Chiso Gallery
4. Kyoto International Manga Museum
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4.0 based on 603 reviews
Kyoto International Manga Museum opened its doors on November, 2006, as a joint venture between the city of Kyoto and Kyoto Seika University’s Faculty of Manga. It is the first comprehensive cultural facility in Japan that combines the functions of manga museum and library. The building it is based in is a re-purpose elementary school that was built in the early Showa era. The museum holds over 300,000 manga materials, ranging from foreign to historic manga. About 50,000 of these are accessible to visitors on book shelves that run throughout the entire museum, from the first floor to the third, the “Wall of Manga.”Near the entrance of the museum, there is a "Manga Expo" corner, where about 5,000 manga translated into languages other than Japanese and foreign comics are exhibited. In the main gallery, we answer the question "What is Manga?" in our permanent exhibition, which explains the systematic and historical aspects of the manga industry. In addition, we have some events.
Reviewed By Camiyo - Versailles, France
If you are interested in Japanese culture, you will love knowing more about this kind of art. Though I watched little anime when I was a kid, this museum (and its core exhibition) showed me how important and diverse manga is: the different types of drawing, the process from sketches to final publishing and how the stories are written to different kinds of readers. It has a little section about the differences and similarities with American “comic” or French “bande dessinée”. Probably not the first thing to visit in Kyoto, but a must-see in your visit to Japan.
