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Kadokawa Culture Museum
The eight-metre Bookshelf Theatre, and KADOKAWA's manga and light novel collections. Designed by Kengo Kuma.
The building is a mass of angled granite designed by Kengo Kuma, standing in a KADOKAWA complex that also holds a hotel, event halls and a shrine. The centrepiece is the Bookshelf Theatre: a room walled with eight-metre shelves, used for projection mapping several times a day. Other floors hold manga and light novel collections you can read, and rotating exhibitions.
Pourquoi ça vaut le détour
It is the one place in this list built around books as objects rather than characters. The Bookshelf Theatre is worth the trip on its own.
Quand y aller
Weekends are busy. The Bookshelf Theatre projection has set times and gathers a crowd just before each one.
Bon à savoir
Ticket types are the confusing part — some cover only certain floors, and exhibitions are often sold separately. Decide what you want to see before buying. It is on the same side of Tokyo as the Totoro forest in Sayama Hills, so the two can share a day if you have a car; by train they are awkward to combine.
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