Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Okazaki, Kyoto
- Tue to Sun
- 10:00 to 18:00
- Mon
- Closed
Last entry 17:30, though some exhibitions set their own. Open on Mondays that are public holidays. Closed 28 December to 2 January.
Source: kyotocity-kyocera.museum, checked 11 Oct 2026.
Kyoto's city art museum opened in 1933, and its main building is the oldest public art museum building still standing in Japan. A 2020 renovation tucked a glass-fronted entrance under the front plaza and added Higashiyama Cube, a wing for contemporary shows, while the Collection Room shows Kyoto school painting.
Insider tip
The Collection Room is ¥730, and special exhibitions are priced on their own. Some shows need a timed ticket booked ahead. Walk straight through the old central hall to the east entrance and the Japanese garden facing the Higashiyama hills.
What's on at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Upcoming events at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
Yamaga Seika: Textile Artist of Soaring Imagination
特別展 生誕140年記念 染織家 山鹿清華 宙翔ぶイマジネーション
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
The first retrospective in 40 years of Yamaga Seika, who designed, chose the thread and wove his own tapestries, from Gion Matsuri float hangings to wall pieces showing locomotives, rockets and Tokyo Tower. It's closed on Mondays unless they're holidays.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Zen and Ghibli
「禅とジブリ」京都展
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
Built on producer Suzuki Toshio's book of conversations with Zen monks, this hands-on show looks at Ghibli films through a Zen eye, set in the world of Miyazaki Hayao's The Boy and the Heron. It's closed on Mondays unless they're holidays, and numbered entry tickets may be handed out when it's crowded.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Studio Ghibli Presents Hakuin's Zen
「スタジオジブリ企画制作 白隠さんの禅」京都展
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
The follow-up to Zen and Ghibli shows paintings and calligraphy by the Zen monk Hakuin Ekaku alongside video that Studio Ghibli made to put his teaching in today's terms. It's closed on Mondays (open on holidays) and from 28 Dec to 2 Jan.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Nitten Kyoto Exhibition
第119回 日展京都展
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
Japan's biggest open-entry art exhibition tours to Kyoto with about 500 works in five sections, Japanese-style painting, Western-style painting, sculpture, crafts and calligraphy, including pieces by artists from Kyoto and Shiga. It's closed on Mondays unless they're holidays and from 28 Dec to 2 Jan.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Thinking Sculptors: Raphaël Zarka and Horiuchi Masakazu
思考する彫刻家 ラファエル・ザルカと堀内正和（仮称）
Time 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30), closed Mondays except 22 March and 3 May Station Higashiyama (Tozai Line), 8 min walk
The Paris sculptor Raphaël Zarka, known for sculpture you can skate on, shown with the Kyoto-born abstract pioneer Horiuchi Masakazu through finished works, sketches, notebooks and models. Zarka is researching at Villa Kujoyama and will show new pieces made there.
そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearby
Around Okazaki
Art museums, Meiji gardens and Nanzen-ji along the Lake Biwa Canal
Okazaki is Kyoto's museum quarter. Two art museums sit either side of the approach to Heian Shrine, by its giant torii, and the zoo, a crafts museum and ROHM Theatre Kyoto are a few minutes away round Okazaki Park. Follow the Lake Biwa Canal east and you're at Nanzen-ji, with Eikan-do and Murin-an a short walk from its gate.
Okazaki has 27 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 9 shrines and temples, 6 museums, 4 restaurants, 2 cafes, 2 shops, 2 landmarks and 2 parks and gardens. Read the Okazaki guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art?
- 124 Okazaki Enshojicho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市左京区岡崎円勝寺町124).
- What are the opening hours of Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art?
- Tue to Sun 10:00 to 18:00; Closed Mon. Last entry 17:30, though some exhibitions set their own. Open on Mondays that are public holidays. Closed 28 December to 2 January.
- How do I get to Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art?
- The nearest station is Higashiyama (Tozai Line). Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art is in Okazaki, Kyoto.
- How much does Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art cost?
- Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art?
- Plan for 1-2 hours.
- When is the best time to visit Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art?
- Rainy afternoons.
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