Kyoto is home to world-leading creators in manga, anime, and gaming.
Kyoto City, where a culture nurturing creativity thrives from traditional industries to digital art, is renowned as a hub for content industries including manga, anime, and games. It hosts a concentration of related companies, led by Nintendo.
Additionally, Kyoto hosts the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair (36,316 attendees in 2025), a comprehensive trade fair for manga, anime, and games, Japan's largest indie game festival, BitSummit (58,065 attendees in 2025), are held annually within Kyoto City.
Furthermore, Kyoto City is home to the Kyoto International Manga Museum, jointly operated by Kyoto City and Kyoto Seika University (Japan's only university with a dedicated Manga Department!). This makes Kyoto a city where manga, anime, and games are very much a part of everyday life.