Museum & venue · Kyoto
Kyoto International Manga Museum
京都国際マンガミュージアム
The Kyoto International Manga Museum is part museum, part library, inside a former elementary school building in central Kyoto. Its collection runs to hundreds of thousands of items, and tens of thousands of manga line the walls of the corridors.
Most visitors come to read: you pull a volume off the 'Wall of Manga' and settle into a chair, a classroom or, in good weather, the lawn out front. Changing exhibitions look at manga history and artists, and there are shelves of translated manga too.
What to see and do
Long shelves of manga from the 1970s to today, free to read once you're inside.
In good weather, take a book outside onto the artificial-turf lawn.
Includes 'What is Manga?' and a wall of hand casts of famous manga artists.
A workshop on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays where you try inking a manga page.
What’s on
Good to know
- Children under 12 must come with an adult.
- Most manga are in Japanese, but there is a section of translated titles.