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Review:
This small, one-room museum displays fifty handcrafted kaleidoscopes from all over the world. Located in downtown Kyoto, the Kaleidoscope Museum of Kyoto is open Tuesdays through Sundays and all national holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except two weeks between December 25 and January 4. For a small admission fee, adults and children can enjoy viewing the colorful patterns of kaleidoscopes made from objects like cellphones and musical instruments. They even have one that will refract the face of the the viewer onto hundreds of mirrored bits. Guests can make their own kaleidoscope at one of the museum’s workshops.
706-3 Dongeinmaecho Ayakoji, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Phone: +81-752-54-79-02
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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