Exhibitions in Kyoto

June 2026

June 2026 at a glance: 1 exhibition opened, 0 closed, and 4 more were on view across the city.

Rosanjin Kitaoji, Doppo Seiten (Walking alone under the blue sky), calligraphy

Key visual for Go, go go! Team Ōkyo at Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts & Culture

Plum Tree and Nasori, painted cedar doors by Hara Zaisho, 1852

Opened in June

Calligraphy by Modern Artists: Kahitsukan Collection10 Jun
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.

Was on view in June

Go, go go! Team Ōkyo - Maruyama Ōkyo and the Artists He Mentoredto 27 Sept
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.
Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai: The Legacy of the Sumitomo Pavilionto 18 Oct
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.
Plum Tree and Nasori (Ume ni Nasori-zu): Sugito-e at the Honmaru-goten Palaceto 18 Oct
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.
10th Anniversary: The Kyoto Railway Museum's Journey in Photographsto 29 Dec
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.

Stay in the loop on Kyoto

A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.