Venture to Higashi-Tokorozawa for a new adventure that mixes culture and industry. The Tokorozawa Sakura Town is home to Japan’s largest pop culture transmission base. With 25,000 square meters of space, this huge facility is a part of the Cool Japan Forest Project, a joint initiative between Kadokawa Publishing Corporation and Tokorozawa City in Saitama Prefecture.
Sakura Town is home to shops, restaurants, a culture museum—designed by famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma—, a factory, offices, an event space, and even its own shrine and anime hotel. Experience Japan’s most beloved anime, manga, novels, and games as though they were real-life.
Tickets can be reserved online via the homepage and even offers combination tickets with nearby exhibitions, such as Team Labo’s Acorn Forest in Musashino Jurin Park, another must-see in the area.
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This five-floor museum was designed by Kengo Kuma, the renowned Japanese architect. Built with over 20,000 granite stones, the impressive facade looks like a spaceship that's recently landed in the area. Inside, you'll find library floors, museum exhibitions, and a cafe.
With an impressive sound and video system in every room, the EJ Anime Hotel from Entertainment Japan is more theatre than hotel perhaps. Its 33 rooms boast collaboration with idol groups, anime, and games. Find yourself in your own fandom kingdom.
The Musashino Nimasu Uruwashiki Yamato no Miyashiro Shrine is more commonly known as the Musashino Reiwa Shrine. The exterior was designed by Kengo Kuma. Inside, fans of Vampire Hunter D or Final Fantasy may recognize the ceiling art by Yoshitaka Amano. The guardian dogs were sculpted by Yoshimasa Tsuchiya.
Yokai Pandemonium is the second ever exhibition in the grand gallery of the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa Sakura Town. The start coincides with the grand opening of Tokorozawa Sakura Town. Works will be on display from renowned Japanese author Hiroshi Aramata.
The EJ Anime Museum will open in Kadokawa Culture Museum with a Newtype Anime Chronicle exhibition. Newtype is a monthly publication featuring the latest anime, manga, tokusatsu, scifi, seiyu and video game news. The exhibition will showcase the magazine through the years.
Anime Camp is just one of several events for the grand opening of the Tokorozawa Sakura Town. It is a two day event for the opening weekend only, with goods and food booths, character greetings and exclusive photo spots. They are also giving out commemorative gifts to guests
Ken + Julia Yonetani's first major exhibition in Japan, at the new Kadokawa Culture Museum. "This is why I want to be saved" will be the very first exhibition at the fourth floor 'Edit and Art Gallery' of the museum.
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World Kitchen Samurai is an Indian restaurant in Tokorozawa that puts a creative spin on its food and atmosphere. It is a jazz-themed, modern eatery.
Men Dojo is a delicious ramen restaurant well off the beaten path, with a wide menu and great tasting noodles.
Toei Animation Museum, founded in July 2018, pays homage to Toei Animation, which has spawned a large number of popular anime franchises since its inception in 1956. The museum is located in Nerima, which is considered by many to be the birthplace of Japanese animation. Famous anime characters featured here include Astro Boy, Sailor Moon, One Piece, and Dragon Ball, among others. The Toei Animation Museum interactive has large boards that visitors can search for Toei anime titles. From permanent exhibitions of materials that were used in the anime production (storyboards, celluloid pictures, etc.) to special exhibitions and museum shops, you can discover everything here.
Koganei Park is the second largest park in the Tokyo metropolitan area, known as a cherry blossom hotspot.
In 1993, the seven-acre Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architecture Museum was opened by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as part of the Edo-Tokyo Museum. The aim of this museum is to preserve historic buildings of great cultural value that are not in their current location can be relocated, reconstructed, preserved and exhibited and this valuable cultural heritage can be passed on to future generations. The open-air museum offers the following exhibitions: An introduction in the visitor center. Restored buildings and scenes from everyday life in the Edo period. Architectural remnants and recreation of an urban landscape A collection from the Original Musahino Folklore Museum in a special exhibition. The various exhibitions can be viewed within the exhibition rooms or in the actual open-air museum.
