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Samurai & Ninja Museum with Experience
867 reviews
#1 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"Great tour if you want an inside into samurai history plus a little fun doing the ninja trainng oraz samurai dressup !!! Amazing tour guide !! I would really recommend this place for families !!!""This was fun & great fun , we started with s casual tea ceremony & learnt so much about Japanese history & culture without being overwhelming for kids, we also got to try Samurai outfits & throw ninja weapons whic..."
Kyoto Railway Museum
680 reviews
#2 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"- my 8y/o’s favorite collection toys are Tamara trains / Plarails so when he knew we will be in Kyoto we made sure that part of the itinerary is a visit to Railway Museum - true enough he can name each series and...""Offers an astonishing exhibition of a wide range of real scale locomotives from all periods, from the very first vapor powered to the latest Shinkansen bullet train passing thru the classic and elegant luxury trai..."
Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
172 reviews
#3 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"Leave your skepticism behind and visit this museum to see amazing examples of the lovely hand made items that are works of art that function beautifully in Japanese life every day.""There are detailed explanations of the various stages in the development of various handicrafts eg: various stages of pottery like firing, painting, glazing etc. that are very informative and interesting."
Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum
322 reviews
#4 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"We started out our tour in the Fushimi Sake Village with the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum that provides you with a good notion about the history of Sake brewing and gives us a nice little sake bottle and a tasting...""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."
Kyoto National Museum
485 reviews
#6 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"we had an afternoon to remember coming close up with Kyoto’s cultural DNA. the museum is home to an imperial palace-ful of the ancient capital’s treasures the journey starts (logically) at Hall 1 on the ground floor.""An emphasis is on the artistic history of Japan through different periods and the ceramic collection is extensive with smaller exhibits for painting and screens."
Kyoto International Manga Museum
602 reviews
#7 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"Awesome museum with an extensive manga library, including a large foreign language collection, and a interesting timeline on the development and expansion of manga culture in English and Japanese.""Neat gift shop, huge manga library with some English, an artist doing manga portraits ( we wanted to do this but her list was full) - an exhibition of a particular artist, a room full of casts of the hands of arti..."
Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
34 reviews
#14 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"Netsuke lovers, such as ourselves, will be in seventh heaven with these gorgeous pieces, however, the museum will also appeal more broadly to art and sculpture lovers or those appreciating traditional Japanese cul...""Netsuke, iconic representations of important aspects of Japanese culture and history, are tiny miniature sculptures made of wood, ivory, clay, porcelain, nut shells, coral."
The Kyoto Arashiyama Orgel Museum
44 reviews
#23 of 228 Museums in Kyoto
"The museum guide who gave me a tour around the museum is very knowledgeable in his field, he was able to explain each and every piece of music box in great detail, and he also played them for the guests.""The tour is an absolute must, and it is very impressive how well kept the museum pieces are, and how accurately they render elaborate music compositions from earlier centuries."
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