Wacoal Study Hall Kyoto
- Highlight
- Visitors can peruse publications on beauty, study and compile materials as well as make use of coworking space for business.
A cultural endeavor to cultivate feminine beauty
Established in 2016 on the south side of Kyoto Station, this facility aims to give feminine exquisiteness an extra lift in terms of figure and symmetry through to the introspective self.
The spacious study hall occupies the 1st and 2nd floors of the Wacoal Shinkyoto Building, providing a school, library, coworking space and gallery (some sections are charged).
The 1st floor beauty-themed library has 11 categories filled with some 5,000 domestic and international publications carefully selected by the Book Director, Yoshitaka Haba. Adjacent to the library is a coworking space enabling users to work and collaborate together. At the study hall’s school lectures on “bodily beauty”, “appreciative beauty” and “social beauty”, which all embody Wacoal’s aim of culturally expressing and commercializing the achievement of “feminine beauty”.
Whose words are written in lights at the entrance?
| Address | 6 Nishi-Kujo Kitanouchi-cho, Minami-ku |
|---|---|
| TEL | 075-556-0236 |
| FAX | 075-556-0230 |
| URL | https://www.wacoal.jp/studyhall/ |
| Hours | Weekdays: 10:00-21:30, Sat: 10:00-17:30 |
| Closed | Sun, Mon, Nat Hols |
| Adm | 1-day charge: ¥1,620/person (monthly membership also available) |
| Access | A 7-min walk from Subway Karasuma Line, JR and Kintetsu Kyoto Stn |
Facilities near by
Gold Leaf Art Studio
Traditional gold leaf technology and contemporary modern art
Nishikawa Abura-ten
The precious tools that were once used to extract rape-seed oil
Kyoto Household Buddhist Altars Museum
An insight into the traditions of Kyoto Buddhist altars and accoutrements
HOSOTSUJI IHEE Museum
The spirit of this long-established company can be seen in the hand towel designs