Location: Kyoto Prefecture
Top Things to do in Kyoto Prefecture
Top Hotels in Kyoto Prefecture
- 1. Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shinmachi Bettei
- 2. Cross Hotel Kyoto
- 3. Hotel Granvia Kyoto
- 4. Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo
- 5. RIHGA Royal Hotel Kyoto
- 6. Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
- 7. Hotel Intergate Kyoto Shijo Shinmachi
- 8. Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Sanjo
- 9. Hotel Resol Trinity Kyoto
- 10. sequence KYOTO GOJO
10 Specialty Museums in Kyoto Prefecture That You Shouldn't Miss
Kyoto Prefecture (京都府, Kyōto-fu) is a prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto.
Restaurants in Kyoto Prefecture
1. Kozan Bunko
2. 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.
3. Kotohiki Hamanakisuna Culture Museum
4. Kyoto Railway Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 685 reviews
Reviewed By OscarLee1933 - Sydney, Australia
Having visited both the Railway Museum in Saitama and Kyoto Railway Museum in the same trip, I would say the Kyoto one offers much better experience to non-rail fanatics, as the interactive displays there did a better job in introducing the different aspects of railway operations. Not only the train driving simulators that appeal to train operator wannabes, but also the "backend" operations like ticket booking. For instance, you can print your own magnetic ticket from a real ticket machine used in JR stations and put it into a fully-functional turnstile, where the image of a steam locomotive will be printed on the ticket for your collection. It is this attention to details that made the Japanese society tick. The roundhouse is also very impressive and the steam locomotive ride is certainly a highlight in my trip to Japan.
5. Samurai & Ninja Museum with Experience
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 867 reviews
We are an INTERACTIVE samurai & ninja museum focused on the history of Japan. We are located between the Nishiki Market and the Gion area. We provide tours on the samurai armors, samurai swords, samurai villages and samurai houses. We have family friendly ninja displays and ninja experiences such as ninja blow gun trial and the shuriken throw. Ninja lessons and ninja experiences in the ninja offered daily. Families, couples and martial arts fans welcome. We also have a distinctive samurai souvenir shop if you'd like to buy a samurai sword in Kyoto. You can buy authentic Edo period swords and carbon replica swords in addition to types of katana and wakizashi. We also have an extensive sword exhibition. Kyoto's best rated samurai, ninja, martial arts and history museum. A samurai village and samurai house feeling including a ninja dojo inside the museum. The ninja park for kids and a separate kimono tea ceremony room for families also available.
Reviewed By watsonUk
Great experience for the kids - they enjoyed the samurai experience and ninja star / blow guns. Tour was at a good level of detail to be interesting to kids and for adults - in English and well spoke.
6. Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 322 reviews
Reviewed By 260gillianc - Melbourne, Australia
This was a spontaneous addition to our itinerary whilst in Kyoto. My partner wanted to taste sake whilst travelling in Japan. This brewery, now museum was great value for money. We paid about 400 yen entry which includes the museum, tasting of two sake varieties and plum wine, as well as a little bottle of sake each as a souvenir. We were pleasantly surprised at how interesting the museum was, we learnt a lot and enjoyed our tasting, also purchasing a bottle of the plum wine which was delicious. The staff were friendly and welcoming. All explanations were in English too.
7. The Tale of Genji Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 142 reviews
Reviewed By shepard-v-n7 - Sydney, Australia
Spent about an hour and a bit here - a few rooms, and I particularly liked the one telling about the uji chapters. I would say it’s definitely a well-maintained museum, small but containing interesting details. English audio commentary is available and I’m glad I opted for that to understand what was going on. There’s also a short film of the uji chapters, definitely watch that and the audio commentary covers that too. Small but interesting gift shop with a cafe that was quite busy when I visited.
8. Sumiya Motenashi Cultural and Art Museum
9. Yakuno Urushi Museum
10. Kyoto International Manga Museum
Overall Ratings
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.
