Top rated Local history museums in Kyoto, Japan to elevate your visit (Updated February, 2024)

Top rated Local history museums in Kyoto

Experience the best that Kyoto has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 10 places from Local history museum category.

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Remains of the Kan-in-no-miya Residence

Local history museum

👍 Free! And in Kyoto where many places charge admission to view places like this it’s a great place to visit. Not many tourists stop by here as they continue on into the imperial palace grounds (basically a big park and garden) and don’t realize they can stroll through a old imperial villa with lots o...

4.30 (257 reviews) (~1.67 km from centre)

Heian-kyo Soseikan

Local history museum

👍👍 JR円町駅から徒歩10分、図書館、京都生涯学習センター等と併設故に観光客は見落としますね。ただし、一度立ち寄ることをお薦めします。理由は簡単、1200年前の平安京の時代(794～)の京都を、歴史学者たちが精根込めて、模型で再現してくれているのですから… 先ず、当時の儀式や宴を行った建物である豊楽殿、天皇や貴族の屋...

4.30 (161 reviews) (~1.48 km from centre)

The Cultural Museum of Kyoto

Museum

Museum featuring displays on the history, art & crafts of Kyoto, with occasional special exhibits.

4.10 (4.2K reviews) (~1.41 km from centre)

Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives

Local history museum

👍👍 I wanted to stop by the Kyoto Prefectural Museum for the first time in a while, but before I knew it, it was closed, and I walked a little further south, past the concert hall, and a super-upgraded box building had been completed. Actually, it's so wonderful that I don't want to introduce it to you....

4.10 (436 reviews) (~4.88 km from centre)

Kyoto Municipal Museum of School History

Local history museum

😐 This museum exhibits the history of school education in Kyoto, which was founded in 1869 (Meiji 2) as Japan's first district-based elementary school, 64 program elementary schools, and opened in November 1998 (Heisei 10). did. The building uses the school building of Kaichi Elementary School, one of...

4.10 (159 reviews) (~1.86 km from centre)

Lake Biwa Canal Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 This museum is equipped with a historical video of the creation of the Biwa canal from the beginning in the English version. In addition, it also provides various mock-ups so that it easily reflects situations from historical time. The landscape from the former railroad and water transportation is b...

4.00 (576 reviews) (~3.78 km from centre)

Bank of Yanagihara Memorial Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 京都駅の東側「崇仁地区」のシンボル、柳原銀行は「被差別部落の住民によって設立された日本で唯一の銀行」でした。明治32年（1899年）に明石民蔵（柳原町二代目町長）や地元有志が創立し、地元の皮革産業振興に貢献したほか、その利子を地元の小学校の運営資金や道路建設資金に充てるなど「自力で差別を撤廃していく模範」...

4.00 (95 reviews) (~2.89 km from centre)

Ōtsu City Museum of History

Local history museum

Museum featuring a chronological display on the city's history, with dioramas & cultural relics.

3.90 (498 reviews) (~9.67 km from centre)

Kyoto City Library of Historical Documents

Local history museum

😐 Kyoto Rekishi Shiryokan Fee: Free Overview: Most of the exhibits are related to the history of Kurama Temple. The video library in the back is made in the Showa era, and there are about 30 15-minute videos that explain the history of Kyoto in great detail. I watched a video of Daimonji Yaki, and it...

3.80 (187 reviews) (~2.27 km from centre)

Costume Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 When I go to Kyoto, I try to see as much as possible. The entire 5th floor of the building across from Nishi Honganji Temple is used to recreate designs from the Tale of Genji and the Heian period with 1/4 scale dolls and furniture. It's nice to be able to take photos 😆 The company Izutsu Group run...

3.80 (127 reviews) (~1.74 km from centre)

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Top rated Local history museums in Kyoto, Japan