Requests to Visitors to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 Infection

• Please bring a mask.
• Please refrain from visiting if you fall into any of the following four categories:
  1. Those with suspected COVID-19 infection or symptoms, such as fever or cough.
  2. Those who may have come in close contact with COVID-19 infected person within the past two weeks.
  3. hose who have within the past two weeks visited countries or regions currently subject to Japanese government entry restrictions or post-entry quarantine.
  4. Those who have within the past two weeks had close contact with residents of countries or regions currently subject to Japanese government entry restrictions or post-entry quarantine.

We recommend that visitors download the Japanese coronavirus contract tracing application COCOA .

• Your temperature will be measured at the entrance. If you are confirmed to have a fever of 37.5 degrees Celsius or higher, you will be refused admission (except during periods when only the museum gardens are open).
• We ask visitors to utilize the Kyoto City Notification Service of COVID-19 Positive Cases. Information in English with a QR code for registration will be posted in the museum.
  The Kyoto City Notification Service of COVID-19 Positive Cases
  In the event that an infection is discovered, information will also be posted on this museum's website.
• Please wear a mask. If you do not wear a mask, please refrain from entering the museum.

• Please cooperate with cough etiquette, coughing only into your mask.
• Please wash your hands with soap and disinfect with alcohol. Alcohol for hand disinfection is made available in the museum.

• We request all visitors to maintain a distance of preferably at least 1 meter, from other visitors. Please take turns when viewing objects on exhibit. To prevent overcrowding, we request social distancing while waiting in line and may restrict visitor numbers.
• Please refrain from conversation or utterances.
• Do not touch the works on view, display cases, walls, or any other objects in the galleries.

• Electric hand dryers (in toilets) and drinking fountains are not in use.
• Please close the lid of the toilet seat before flushing the toilet.
• Please minimize time spent resting inside the museum.

• Museum staff members retain the right to instruct museum visitors independently according to the situation, regardless what is written in the descriptions above. In such cases, please follow the staff member's instructions.

Hours may change during special exhibitions. Please check the times on the Special Exhibitions page.

Attendance at events in the museum's lecture theater will be restricted to 100 people (half-capacity). Attendees must follow staff instructions when being seated.

The volunteer Kyohaku Navigators workshop has been cancelled.