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Museum Saga doll house, cherry blossoms in spring, autumnAutumn leavesAgainst the background of the beautiful location, it is a museum that has more than two hundred thousand high-quality old dolls with a well-developed genealogy from the Edo period to the early Showa period. The three hundred and eighty-five of them have been designated as Nationally Registered and Tangible Folk Cultural Properties in March, and are active as specialized museums for dolls. In the house of the museum Saga doll, it is three-dimensional for viewingInnocentA combination of savagery and eleganceGoshoDolls, cute and smallKamoDolls, beautiful costumes, and gold carvingsConcentratedIn addition to each kind of doll, there are other dolls of each region that feel warmth, such as the wonderful Saga doll that draws a pattern and the head is waving back and forth and the tongue is put out, and the mysterious, and the karakuri doll that discovered the mystery and became the starting point for the introduction of today’s science and technology. Local dolls were born in the popular culture of the Edo period based on the climate and customs of various places, and prospered as a seasonal doll. There is a simple, simple and freedom of expression taste that is the origin of beauty and the warmth of the soil. Researching each of these types of dolls in a sociological position,CollectionI want the general public to understand and be familiar with the doll culture, and to the next generation荷It is a wish that young people should be useful to the dolls and have big dreams. The doll has a warm beauty that speaks to us without saying a word. Ask for a conversation with your heart and soul. Director Akiko Ikeda

Director Akiko Ikeda

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Opening hours	11:00-16:30
Closed Days	December 26, 2025-February 13, 2026
Admission fee	General admission: 1,500 yen
	Junior and senior high school students: 1,400 yen
	Elementary school students: 700 yen
	Other discounts available, please ask at reception.

 

Location

Japanese Folk Dolls MUSEUM Postal code: 616-8434 Saga Torii Honbutsu Danden-cho, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture12 Telephone: 075-882-1421 (for fax)

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Access

(JR Line)
20minutes walk from JR Saga Arashiyama Station
(Keifuku Line)
20minutes walk from Keifuku Arashiyama Station
(Hankyu Line)
25minutes walk from Hankyu Arashiyama Station
(Kyoto bus)
7minutes walk from Gohoudou Benzaiten temple bus stop
(City bus)
12minutes walk from Saga Shakado temple bus stop

Please.

Smoking is prohibited in the MUSEUM.

Dangerous items are not allowed.

Pets are not allowed to enter the museum.

Please refrain from running or joking.

Please refrain from making loud noises and loud noises.

Please eat and drink at the designated place in the facility.

Photography is limited to those for personal enjoyment purposes.

Please use mobile phones and smartphones to the prescribed extent.