Exhibitions in Kyoto

The Museum of Kyoto

Maruyama Okyo and the pupils who founded the Shijo school, centred on recent gifts and loans, many shown for the first time.

The Museum of Kyoto

Kyoto-born painter Izawa Motoichi's festivals and city scenes: original drawings for his 1979 book Koto Tenbyo alongside oil paintings and archival material.

Kyoto Railway Museum

Collection display pairing design drawings of trains and equipment with the real parts, such as a wooden pattern for a D60 locomotive grate and a 0 Series speedometer.

Kyoto Railway Museum

For the museum's 10th anniversary, 22 collection photographs of the guest trains brought in on the siding for special displays, including the 113 Series C5 set (2023).

Kyoto Railway Museum

Fifty years of the Tomix model railway brand: a large N-gauge layout, historic and new models, catalogue covers, a recreation of the Umekoji tracks and a hands-on driving corner.

Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts

Four Kyoto craft artists show new work in ceramics, dyed textiles, glass and maki-e lacquer in the museum's New Wing gallery.

Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts

60th-anniversary show tracing how Insho designed his own museum, inside and out: design sketches, the original poster, furniture and paintings.

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

Some 200 prints and immersive videos on Utagawa Kuniyoshi, the 19th-century ukiyo-e master of Water Margin warriors, beauties, landscapes and cats.

Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture

Maruyama Ōkyo's Tiger and Tao Yuanming screen alongside disciples like Nagasawa Rosetsu, plus about 40 newly discovered works by his grand-disciple Yano Yachō.

Kahitsukan – Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

About 60 works of calligraphy from the collection by 14 modern Japanese painters, potters, sculptors and poets, incl. Rosanjin, Munakata Shiko and Kumagai Morikazu.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK)

MoMAK Masters highlights plus rooms on Kamisaka Sekka's 160th anniversary, Lizzi Ueno-Rix textiles, Asai Chu, dyed textiles and photography.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK)

Career survey of the Italian landscape painter who taught Western painting in Meiji Japan, with loans from GAM Turin and works by his Japanese students.

Sen-oku Hakuko Kan

A small display in the museum's Taotie Room of objects from the Sumitomo Pavilion at Expo 2025, including its forest diorama, a wooden bench and lanterns.

Nijo Castle (Nijo-jo)

Hara Zaisho's 1852 painted cedar doors of two Bugaku dancers performing Nasori beside a white plum, one of 14 door sets shown one at a time in the Honmaru-goten Palace.

Kyoto Railway Museum

Archive photos of how the museum came to be: construction, trains being moved in and installed, and the halls at the 2016 opening.