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Kyoto Museum for World Peace

Kinkakuji, Kyoto

Address
56-1 Tojiin Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 〒603-8577 京都市北区等持院北町56-1
Hours
Mon to Sat
9:30 to 16:30
Sun
Closed

Last entry 16:00. Also closed the day after a public holiday (when a Sunday is a holiday, it opens and closes the next day instead), over the New Year and on some university summer holidays.

Source: ritsumei.ac.jp, checked 11 Oct 2026.

The entrance of the Kyoto Museum for World Peace on Ritsumeikan University's Kinugasa campus
Photo: RoyHalzenski / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Ritsumeikan University opened this museum in 1992 and calls it the world's first peace museum run by a university. The permanent exhibition, rebuilt for the reopening in September 2023, starts with a timeline, then turns to four themes, from Japan's colonies and occupied lands and the harm Japan both did and suffered in the Fifteen Years' War to human security and world peace.

Nearest station Ritsumeikan Daigaku-mae bus stop (City Bus 12, 50, 59)
Cost ¥
Time needed 1 hour
Best time A rainy day
Rainy day

Insider tip

Entry is ¥400 for adults, ¥300 for junior high and high school students and ¥200 for primary school children. You don't need a ticket for the Peace Commons on the second floor. It's closed on Sundays and the day after a public holiday.

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What's on near Kyoto Museum for World Peace

Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.

Performance Starts in 9 days Free

Ritsumeikan Library 10th Anniversary Concert

立命館大学 平井嘉一郎記念図書館 開館10周年記念 LibraryConcert

1 Nov Hirai Kaichiro Memorial Library, Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, Kinkakuji

Time 17:10 to 18:00

The university symphony orchestra plays Carmen, Hungarian Dance No. 5 and a John Williams tribute in the library's ground-floor Library Valley. Free, no booking, and people from outside the university are welcome.

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Exhibition On now ¥600 adult, ¥450 high school and university, ¥300 age 65+, free for junior high and under

Muses: The Models Who Inspired Insho's Art

〈開館60周年記念〉特別企画展Ⅱ モデルになったミューズたち

15 Oct to 20 Dec Kyoto Prefectural Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts, Kinkakuji

Time 9:30 to 17:00 (last entry 30 minutes before closing) Station Ritsumeikan Daigaku-mae bus stop (City Bus), right outside

Paintings by Domoto Insho of women from his student years to his late career, shown for the museum's 60th anniversary. Closed Mondays except 23 Nov, and closed 24 Nov.

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The white facade of the Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts, covered in Domoto Insho's relief patterns, with its name sign Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert, CC BY 4.0
Exhibition Museum admission ticket required (¥600 adult)

Insho Domoto Museum: Yama no Atelier Special Opening

堂本印象美術館「山のアトリエ」特別公開

22 Nov Kyoto Prefectural Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts, Kinkakuji

Time Entry 11:00 to 11:30 and 14:30 to 15:00 Station Ritsumeikan Daigaku-mae bus stop (City Bus), right outside

The museum opens the renovated Yama no Atelier, a registered Tangible Cultural Property, to visitors with a museum ticket in a morning and an afternoon slot.

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The white facade of the Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts, covered in Domoto Insho's relief patterns, with its name sign Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert, CC BY 4.0
Festival Starts in 9 days

Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Festival (Kinugasa Saiten)

立命館大学 衣笠祭典

1 Nov Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, Kinkakuji

Station Ritsumeikan-daigaku-mae (Randen), short walk

The student festival committee holds the Kinugasa campus festival and says visitors are welcome, with the programme to be published later.

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Nearby

Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts Museum · 3 min walk The painter Domoto Insho designed this museum himself, inside and out, and opened it in 1966. Fruit Parlor Cricket Cafe · 5 min walk Fruit Parlor Cricket has been a fruit specialist since 1974, opened by an owner who traded at Kyoto's central wholesale market. Toji-in Temple · 5 min walk Ashikaga Takauji founded Toji-in in 1341 at the foot of Mount Kinugasa, and it became the family temple of the Ashikaga shoguns. Hirano Shrine Shrine · 6 min walk Hirano Shrine grows about 400 cherry trees of some 60 varieties, many of which started here, so something's in flower for about six weeks from... Waratenjin Shrine Shrine · 6 min walk Waratenjin, formally Shikichi Jinja, is the shrine people visit to pray for a safe birth. Kinkaku-ji Temple · 8 min walk Kinkaku-ji's formal name is Rokuon-ji, and it started life as the retirement villa of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who began building here in 1397.

Around Kinkakuji

Three World Heritage temples on one road under Mount Kinugasa

Kinkaku-ji, Ryoan-ji and Ninna-ji all sit on Kinukake-no-Michi, a road that climbs about 2.5 km from Omuro-Ninnaji Station up to the Golden Pavilion. Start at Ryoan-ji, which opens at 8:00 from March to November, an hour before Kinkaku-ji. South of the road, Myoshin-ji's grounds don't close at all, and they hold more than 40 subtemples.

Kinkakuji has 14 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 9 shrines and temples, 2 museums, 1 cafe, 1 restaurant and 1 viewpoint. Read the Kinkakuji guide.

Good to know

What is the address of Kyoto Museum for World Peace?
56-1 Tojiin Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市北区等持院北町56-1).
What are the opening hours of Kyoto Museum for World Peace?
Mon to Sat 9:30 to 16:30; Closed Sun. Last entry 16:00. Also closed the day after a public holiday (when a Sunday is a holiday, it opens and closes the next day instead), over the New Year and on some university summer holidays.
How do I get to Kyoto Museum for World Peace?
The nearest station is Ritsumeikan Daigaku-mae bus stop (City Bus 12, 50, 59). Kyoto Museum for World Peace is in Kinkakuji, Kyoto.
How much does Kyoto Museum for World Peace cost?
Kyoto Museum for World Peace is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
How long do you need at Kyoto Museum for World Peace?
Plan for 1 hour.
When is the best time to visit Kyoto Museum for World Peace?
A rainy day.

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