The is located in Nakagyō-ku

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto

is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Its name means "central capital ward."As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population of 102,620 people. Tourism, shopping, and entertainment are the primary sources of income in the area. The Kamo River flows through the...

, Kyoto

Kyoto

is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The building housing the museum is the former Tatsuike Elementary School. The museum opened on November 25, 2006. Its collection of 200,000 items includes such rarities as Meiji period

Meiji period

The , also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from September 1868 through July 1912. This period represents the first half of the Empire of Japan.- Meiji Restoration and the emperor :...

 magazines and postwar rental books.

The museum is a public-private partnership of Kyoto Seika University

Kyoto Seika University

is a private university, located in Seika, Kyoto, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1968, and it was chartered as a university in 1979....

 and the city of Kyoto. The city provided the building and land. The university operates the facility under the oversight of a joint committee.

Facilities

The museum is divided into multiple public zones. One is the gallery zone; another is the research zone; the third is the collection zone. There are permanent and special exhibits, a Tatsuike history room, a museum shop, and a kissaten

Kissaten

A is a Japanese-style coffee shop. Kissaten are particularly popular among students and business people for breakfast.By law kissaten are able to serve sweets and tea, but almost all will also serve coffee, sandwiches, spaghetti, and other light refreshments, as well as curry rice or set meals at...

. The 140 m of stacks hold 40,000 volumes in the "manga wall."

Holdings

The museum holds many items of historical, as well as contemporary, interest. Highlights of the museum's collection include Japan Punch. Published by Charles Wirgman

Charles Wirgman

Charles Wirgman was an English artist and cartoonist, the creator of the Japan Punch and illustrator in China and Meiji period Japan for the Illustrated London News....

 in Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, it ran from the year Bunkyū

Bunkyu

was a after Man'en and before Genji. This period spanned the years from February 1861 through February 1864. The reigning emperor was .-Change of era:...

 2 (1862) to Meiji 20 (1887).

Japan's first manga magazine was Eshinbun Nihonchi from 1874. The nation's first children's manga magazine was Tokyo Pakku (established in 1907).

Operations

The Kyoto International Manga Museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Guests may enter until 5:30 p.m. It is open daily except Wednesdays (if Wednesday is a holiday, the closure moves to Thursday). It closes at the end of the year and remains closed until after the New Year holidays. The admission fee is 800 yen for adults, 300 yen for high school and junior high school students, and 100 yen for elementary students and younger. Special exhibitions within the museum may carry additional admission fees.

Access

The nearest station is Karasuma Oike

Karasuma Oike Station

is a train station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line and Tōzai Line in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.-Lines:* Kyoto Municipal Subway* Karasuma Line * Tōzai Line -Layout:...

 on the Karasuma and Tōzai Lines of the Kyoto Municipal Subway

Kyoto Municipal Subway

is the metro network in the city of Kyoto, Japan. It is operated by Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau. It has two lines.-Lines:- External links :**...

. Karasuma Oike is the closest bus stop.

Source

This article incorporates material from the article 京都国際マンガミュージアム (Kyōto Kokusai Manga Mūjiamu) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on December 23, 2007.