Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto

Very interesting space. Basically a huge Manga library. Main feature is 3 floors of "wall of Manga" that you can pick from and read while there. Also has a few Manga art pieces on the walls - gallery style, some are for sale. Also a few early books in plexiglass cases dating as far back as the 60s - not for sale. There's a gift shop and a children's reading room on the 1st floor.

If you like library's and books its an good place.You will be asked to leave your belongings in lockers. Which are for free. Staff is friendly buy does not speak english. The books are nice but most are on Japanese. Some exhibitions were present and translated in English.The building used to be a school. Its beautiful and clean. Its very quiet.

It's more of a library than a museum. The history is nice to read about but very minimum compared to all the Japanese manga and people sitting everywhere reading. Also there aren't lots of English books, which is fine but for me the International in the name doesn't make sense cause most books are in Japanese. It's nice to go if you're a fan and it's raining but not worth the ¥800 if you're not. I expected more. I did like seeing some artists at work and the possibility to get yourself a manga drawing of yourself (based on appointment)

Poor. Its more like a library. You can sit and read 100s of manga books. But in terms of learning and interaction not much there. You are better just going to a comic store.

It was huge and so informative! So much to see and read. The administration definitely takes what they're doing very seriously. Also it was without any doubt the museum with the best English translations all across Japan. I recommend having a good few hours to visit it if you wanna read and see everything in detail.