Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
Buried almost entirely underground so as not to disturb the Phoenix Hall's setting, with the bodhisattvas seeming to float off the wall.
Murata Manufacturing in Nagaokakyo. It carries out research and development of electronic components.
Kyoto University's Katsura Campus. It carries out research in materials, chemistry and engineering.
The Kyoto University Museum. It holds 2.5 million specimens and is among the largest at any university in Japan.