Eigamura (Movie Village) in Kyoto

Posted by Kyle Yates in Kansai Leisure

Eigamura means movie village in Japanese. It is located a few minutes away from Kyoto station by bus. The park resembles Japan during the samurai era. Most of the buildings are little wooden samurai houses and they have no heat in them.

There are several samurai shows throughout the park that are fun to watch and quite comical. There are no rides in the park, but there are some really good samurai performances throughout the place, and a few characters for children to get excited over and take pictures with.

In one particular samurai fight, a guard was supposed to kill an enemy samurai who was sneaking into his village, but in the end the guard was killed and the enemy samurai took over his position guarding the village.  It was a comedy.

If you want to dress up as a samurai, it can be easily arranged for about 13,000 yen and allows you to walk around for about an hour in the costume and carry an imitation katana. The foreigner I saw walking around was from Pennsylvania, USA and looked like he was having a great time pretending to be a samurai. Girls can probably dress up as a maiko and walk around, but I’m not sure.

Address : 10 Uzumasa, Hachigaoka-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City

Telephone : 075-864-7716

 

Business Hours : Mar 1st – Nov 30th: 9:00am – 5:00pmDec 1st- End of February: 9:30am – 4:00pm(You must be inside 30 minutes prior to the last departure.) Closed : Dec 26th – Dec 31th

 

Access : Kyoto City Bus to “Toei Uzumasa Movie Land”. Keifuku Railway to “Uzumasa”,5 min walk.JR Line to “hanazono” or “Uzumasa”,13 min walk.

 

Entrance Fee : General: 2,200 yen
Junior/Senior High School Students: 1,300 yen
Children: 1,100 yen

Special discounts are available for groups of 25 people or more)
Additional fees are required for historical costumes, disguises and attractions.