Kyoto International Manga Museum
Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto
- Mon, Tue, Thu to Sun
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Wed
- Closed
Last entry 16:30. When Wednesday is a public holiday it closes the next day. Closed 26 December 2026 to 6 January 2027 and on a few maintenance days.
Source: kyotomm.jp, checked 11 Oct 2026.
The manga museum fills an early Showa school building, the former Tatsuike Elementary School, with about 50,000 manga on 200 metres of open shelves. You can take any of them down and read. Shonen titles are on the first floor, shojo on the second and seinen on the third, and there's a corner of translated manga from around the world.
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Insider tip
Entry is ¥1,200 for adults, ¥400 for junior high and high school students and ¥200 for primary school children, and your ticket lets you back in the same day. On a fine day you can read on the lawn outside. It's closed on Wednesdays.
What the guides say about Kyoto International Manga Museum
When it rains, the Kyoto International Manga Museum lets you take any of about 50,000 manga off its shelves and read (¥1,200). At the Kyoto Railway Museum a working steam engine pulls a coach 1 km out and back. Both are closed on most Wednesdays. See rainy day Kyoto and Kyoto with kids.
Ace Hotel Kyoto, the chain's first in Japan, is part of Shinpuhkan and connects straight to Karasuma Oike Station. Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo is 6 minutes from exit 2 of Shijo Station. Inoda Coffee's main shop opens at 7:00, and the Kyoto International Manga Museum is there for a wet day. Skip mid-July unless you're coming for the Gion Matsuri, when its floats stand in these streets for the yoiyama evenings of 14 to 16 July.
20. Mind Mondays and Wednesdays. The Kyoto National Museum, the art museums in Okazaki, the zoo and the imperial sites close on Mondays. The Kyoto Railway Museum, the Manga Museum, the State Guest House and many Nishiki shops close on Wednesdays.
What's on at Kyoto International Manga Museum
Upcoming events at Kyoto International Manga Museum and within a ten-minute walk, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
The Children Who Grew Up with Manga: 40 Years of Manga Culture in Europe
「Mangaと育った子どもたち：ヨーロッパにおけるManga文化の40年」展
Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 2 min walk
How Japanese manga was translated, read, criticised and taken up over 40 years in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany, ending with work by Europeans who grew up on it and now draw manga themselves. It's included in the museum ticket, and the museum is closed on Wednesdays.
ESU, CC BY 3.0 Gion Matsuri Float Procession, Hanagasa Parade and Kanko-sai (second procession)
祇園祭 後祭山鉾巡行・花傘巡行・還幸祭
Time Floats and Hanagasa from 9:30, mikoshi from about 16:00 Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 1 min walk
The second procession, revived in 2014, leaves Karasuma-Oike at 9:30 and runs the first route the other way. The Hanagasa parade sets off from Shimogyo Junior High for the Otabisho and Yasaka Shrine, and from about 16:00 the mikoshi go back to the shrine.
Kan'ei: Beauty Nurtured by Peace
特別展「寛永 太平がはぐくむ美」
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 minutes before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
Marking 400 years since Emperor Go-Mizunoo's visit to Nijo Castle, the museum shows the Kan'ei culture of Hon'ami Koetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu and Nonomura Ninsei, with scrolls and screens of the imperial procession and a Kano Sanraku hawk painting from Nijo Castle. It's closed on Mondays (open 12 Oct) and 13 Oct, and the ticket covers the permanent galleries too.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 The Indomitable Power of Go Nagai
令和6年能登半島地震復興祈念 不滅の力 永井豪 -永井豪記念館リバイバル-
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 minutes before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
When the 2024 Noto earthquake burned the Go Nagai Memorial Museum in Wajima, 108 original drawings and figures by the creator of Mazinger Z, Devilman and Cutie Honey were found intact inside. They're shown here with original manuscripts and a new manga he drew for the show, and the museum is closed on Mondays (open 11 Jan) and from 28 Dec to 4 Jan.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Medalist Exhibition
メダリスト展
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 min before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk from exit 5
An exhibition on Tsurumaikada's figure skating manga Medalist, with new illustrations drawn for it, famous scenes from the manga, sets that recreate its world and picks from the TV anime. It fills the museum's third and fourth floor galleries.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Nearby
Around Shijo-Karasuma
Kyoto's old bank corner, with kimono streets one block back
Shijo-Karasuma is the crossing where the subway meets the Hankyu line from Osaka, and by 1915 three of the big banks stood on it. It doesn't look much like the Kyoto on the posters. Walk one block west, though, and you're on Muromachi-dori, the old kimono wholesalers' street, near the lanes where the Gion Matsuri floats are built every July.
Shijo-Karasuma has 16 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 4 shops, 3 shrines and temples, 3 cafes, 3 museums, 1 restaurant, 1 bar and 1 neighbourhood. Read the Shijo-Karasuma guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Kyoto International Manga Museum?
- Karasuma-dori Oike-agaru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市中京区烏丸通御池上ル (元龍池小学校)).
- What are the opening hours of Kyoto International Manga Museum?
- Mon, Tue, Thu to Sun 10:00 to 17:00; Closed Wed. Last entry 16:30. When Wednesday is a public holiday it closes the next day. Closed 26 December 2026 to 6 January 2027 and on a few maintenance days.
- How do I get to Kyoto International Manga Museum?
- The nearest station is Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line). Kyoto International Manga Museum is in Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto.
- How much does Kyoto International Manga Museum cost?
- Kyoto International Manga Museum is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Kyoto International Manga Museum?
- Plan for 1-2 hours.
- When is the best time to visit Kyoto International Manga Museum?
- A rainy afternoon.
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