Kyoto Art Center was established in a hope to promote arts in Kyoto in a comprehensive way, and to serve as a bastion center for creation and dissemination of arts and culture. It serves as venues for exhibitions, stage arts and other artistic activities. At the same time it supports the activities of the artists. It has a library, information counter, a chatting room, and a café which is open to any visitors. (Please check the closing dates for each facility)
Opening Hour
- Gallery・Library
Information Room・Lounge - 10:00 ～ 20:00
- Cafe
- 10:00 ～ 21:30
- Studios・Office
- 10:00 ～ 22:00
closed day
*The center may temporary close for a regular check of equipments. The library may also close irregularly. Please check it at the Library.
Entrance Fee
*Some events need admission fee. Please look at Event Schedule for the admission fees.
ROOMClick picture to see the detail.
Studio
Gallery
Auditorium
Japanese-style Hall
Multi-purpose Hall
Japanese-style Room “Meirin”
Meeting Room 2
Workshop Room
Cafe ※
Information Room※
Library ※
Wicket
(Goods/Ticket)※
- ※Anyone can use these spaces.
- Map around KAC, please check Access. Map inside KAC, pleae check Floor Guide.
Barrier free arrangements
- A Braille guide board and an interphone are installed at the entrance. For those who need assistance, we are happy to help them.
- Guide dogs, service dogs and hearing dogs are accepted. If you want to participate in a lecture or a workshop with such dogs, please let us know beforehand by phone. (075-213-1000)
For wheel chair users
- Wheel chairs are provided for free. Please let us know at our office.
- Our elevator can carry a wheel chair.
- Toilets for the wheel chair users are located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the south wing.
For those who have impaired vision
- A Braille guide board and an interphone are installed at the entrance.
- Inside the building including in the elevators are equipped with Braille guide boards.
For those who take babies.
- Baby beds for changing diapers are installed in the toilets for the wheel chair users on the 1st and 2nd floors of the south wing.
Parking lot
- There is no parking lot for the automobiles. Please use public transportation.
- Parking space for bicycles and motorcycles is located at the north of the building.
- This parking space is only for the visitors to the Kyoto Art Center.
- We may remove bicycles and motorcycles that are left there for a long time without notice.
Studios (12 rooms)
North Wing 1F – 3F,
South Wing 1F – 3F
KAC offers studios to artists working in visual and performing arts. Please refer to Artist in Studios for further information.
*This picture represents studio 6, 8, 9
Galleries
North Gallery (North Wing 1F),
South Gallery (South Wing 1F)
Please refer to the Event Schedule to know about the current exhibition.
Image: The 26th National Cultural Festival in Kyoto 2011 “COLORS OF SEASONS” Makoto Ofune
Photo by OMOTE Nobutada
■Opening Hours: 10:00～20:00 (Galleries are closed during exhibition changeover period)
■Admission free
■Area：80㎡
Auditorium
West Wing 2F
This is the largest space in Kyoto Art Center. It is equipped with batons for hanging lights and audio equipments for the stage performances and lectures.
Japanese-style Hall
West Wing 2F
This 78 tatami mats room has a coffered ceiling, and still maintains the atmosphere of the old elementary school. This room is used for traditional performing arts, tea ceremonies, and exhibitions.
Multi-purpose Hall
West Wing 1F
The Gymnasium of elementary school was converted into the Free Space for the artists. The floor was lowered to create semi basement and the ceiling was equipped with batons to hung lights and audio apparatus. This space is used for drama, dance, workshop and installation works.
Japanese
-style Room “Meirin”
South Wing 4F
This room is 15 mats wide equipped with a cupboard for tea ceremony. This is used for “Meirin Tea Ceremonies “, workshops for traditional performing arts and exhibitions. This room used to be the alumni hall for the graduates of Meirin Elementary School.
Meeting Room 2
South Wing 3F
It is used for the orientation of volunteers and meetings of the artists.
Workshop Room
North Wing 1F
This room is equipped with cooking stove, sink, and electric heater. It is used for creating dyeing work and pottery. It is also used for holding workshops.
Cafe
South Wing 1F
Café of Maeda Coffee, a time-honored coffee shop in Kyoto is located on the 1st floor of the South Wing. They serve lunches and beverages. Maeda Coffee HP
■contact：075-221-2224
■Opening hours：
10:00～21:30(last order 21:00)
■closed day：Pursuant to Kyoto Art Center
Information Room
South Wing 1F
Posters, fliers and DMs from galleries and museums in Kyoto and other places in Japan are collected and displayed here.
*If you want to display your posters and fliers here, contact our office.
■Opening Hours：10:00～20:00
Library
South Wing 1F
Record of programs of Kyoto Art center, artistic and cultural books and materials are available for reading. For details, please refer to the Library page.
■Opening Hours：10:00～20:00
■audio-visual materials：VHS・DVD
*anyone can view in the library.
Wicket
(Goods/
Ticket)
West Wing 1F
The shop sells the original goods, tickets of the events and performances of the artists in the Kyoto Art Center, and products which were exhibited at the gallery. For details, visit “shop page” and “ticket page”
Please see a detail Wicket (Goods/Ticket), Ticket information