Description:
Near Heian Shrine is this excellent museum dedicated to the many crafts that flourished during Kyoto's long reign as the imperial capital. Various displays and videos demonstrate the step-by-step production of crafts ranging from stone lanterns and fishing rods to textiles, paper fans, umbrellas, boxwood combs, lacquerware, Buddhist altars, and Noh masks. The displays are fascinating, the crafts beautiful, and explanations are in English, making even a 30-minute stop here well worth the effort. Crafts are sold in the museum shop.
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Highly Recommended 2010
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Contact:
- visit website
- tel: +81 75 762 2670
- fax: +81 75 761 7121
- send email
Address:
- 9-1 Seishoji-cho
- In the basement of the Miyako Messe (International Exhibition Hall). Okazaki
- Kyoto 606-8343
Hours:
- Tues-Sun 9am-6pm
Strenuousness:
- No Sweat
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