Kyoto International Manga Museum

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300,000 manga in a former school from 1929: 50,000 can be read anywhere, even sitting on the floor.

The museum occupies the building of Ryūchi Elementary School, built in 1929 and closed in 1995 because of the falling number of pupils in the city centre: the original classrooms and corridors are still recognisable, with the manga shelves fitted between the old school doors. The collection numbers about 300,000 items, including Meiji-era magazines and post-war rental books; about 50,000 volumes can be read freely in every corner of the building and on the lawn outside, where in summer you stretch out on the grass to read.

Opened on 25 November 2006, the result of a collaboration between the city of Kyoto and Seika University, which has one of the first manga faculties in Japan.

ℹ️ Open 10:30–17:30 (last entry 17:00), closed on Wednesdays (the following day if it is a public holiday) and over the end and start of the year. Tickets 900 yen for adults, 400 yen for junior high and high school students, 200 yen for elementary school pupils.

🚉 Karasuma Oike · 2 min walk

Sources: kyotomm.jp · kyotomm.jp · ja.wikipedia.org

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