Kyoto International Manga Museum

The Kyoto International Manga Museum is a museum showcasing a vast collection of manga, with approximately 300,000 items, including comics, Edo period woodblock prints, pre-war magazines, and post-war rental books. The museum acts as a manga library and history resource for the public, as well as serving the manga-related research interests of Kyoto Seika University's International Manga Research Center. Visitors can browse the massive collection of manga, and the museum also features temporary exhibitions on various themes. The building that houses the museum was once an elementary school, and some relics of the former school are on display for visitors. The museum offers a variety of workshop menus, including 'Drawing', 'Making', and 'Experiencing', and also has a Research Reference Room where visitors can read about 250,000 materials that are not open to the public. Additionally, the museum has a Manga Database Search where approximately 300,000 items in the Manga Museum can be searched