The Kadokawa Musashino Museum houses various Japanese art pieces, representing different genres that visitors can explore.

The second floor of the museum is home to the "NAKED BIG BOOK," a giant book featuring colorful projection animations that catch visitors' attention. The main hall also has numerous works by modern artists, spread out throughout the building, providing visitors with a diverse collection of art pieces.

The "Rock Museum Shop" on the premises has various unique and original merchandise, including crafts made in Musashino. Visitors can now access previously restricted areas like "Karamata Hiroshi's Yokai Fumotonden 2020" on the first floor, "Bookshelf Theater" and "Book Street" on the 4th and 5th floors, "Karamata Wonder Treasure Museum," and "edit & Art gallery" on the 5th floor, offering an array of exhibits to explore.

The Kadokawa Musashino Museum is a one-of-a-kind cultural facility that uniquely combines a library, art museum, and museum. It is located in Tokorozawa-Sakuratown, and visitors can enjoy a wide range of exhibits.

The Bookshelf Theater is a space that surrounds visitors with bookshelves that are about 8 meters tall and intersect each other, creating a complex and three-dimensional concept resembling the inside of the brain.

The upper levels of the bookshelves display approximately 30,000 valuable books that were donated by many teachers and scholars during the early days of Kadokawa Shoten, including the personal collection of its founder, Genyoshi Kadokawa. The donated books also include works from literary critic Kenkichi Yamamoto, historian Rizo Takeuchi, and Okinawa studies researcher Moritsugu Goken.

The Bookshelf Theater also has another unique feature worth seeing - three projectors that project images onto the 8-meter-high bookshelves, taking viewers into a world full of imagination, association, and fantasy.

In the future, the Bookshelf Theater plans to continue with the theme of "playing with books and encountering them in unexpected ways" and will showcase a diverse range of experimental projection content.

Edit Town is a complex that combines books, art, and museum. It includes "Book Street" on the 4th floor, "edit & Art gallery", "Arata Matsumoto Wonder Treasure House", and the "Bookshelf Theater" that runs through the 4th and 5th floors. There is also the "Attic Step" and the "Literary Award Bookshelf", which are stair-shaped bookshelves connecting the 4th and 5th floors. This area is the main part of the Kadokawa Musashino Museum, which combines a library, art gallery, and museum.

Book street, which runs through the central area of edit town, has about 2.5 million books. It was created by the museum director, Masataka Matsuoka, to convey a rich bookish atmosphere with a lively "street" theme. The bookshelves are not just ordinary library shelves, but advanced ones. The space also displays book-themed artwork above, and features an art museum model produced by Kengo Kuma's urban design office, as well as clothing designs made from books by the art designer Ryohei Kawase.

The colorful projection mapping animation on the giant book is a masterpiece of NAKED Inc., and it's the first thing visitors see when they enter. The director, Masataka Matsuoka, aims to convey the message that the museum is a playful art space full of imagination and the essence of life.

You can find more information about NAKED on their official website.

Kadokawa Musashino Museum Original Sacoche (Black)
・Price: 2,600 Yen (including tax)

Kadokawa Musashino Museum Original Sakosh (Black)
・Price: 2,600 yen (including tax)
*Sold at the museum store

Tickets for the Kadokawa Musashino Museum can be bought from the link below or at the official website, https://kadcul.com/.

The Kadokawa Musashino Museum is a unique facility that combines elements of an art museum, a museum, and a library, allowing visitors to connect reality and virtuality and unleash their imagination in unprecedented ways. The museum is run by a team of experts, including editorial engineer Masataka Matsuoka, museum scholar Hiroshi Aramata, art and art education researcher Shingo Kamino, and architect Kengo Kuma. They plan to continue operating this innovative museum with new concepts in the future.