The newKadokawa Culture Museum, designed by renowned architectKengo Kuma, includes an incredible interior filled with books.

Kuma designed a unique wood shelving system that reaches floor to ceiling and continues across with floating wooden panels.

This area includes new tourist destinations like an anime-inspired hotel and a shrine also designed by Kuma.

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge

Projection mapping uses the 500,000 books as part of varying exhibits that give the space its secondary function.

Screens are also scattered across the shelving arrangement to support exhibitions.

The first floor includes gallery spaces for temporary exhibitions and a small library.

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge

Challenges are arising daily from a complex environment and networks, resulting in the mutation of genes and viruses.

However, civilizations and cultures have a history of turning invisible power into visible forms.

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge

Photographer Captures the Incredible Bookshelf-Lined Interiors of Kengo Kuma’s New Kadokawa Culture Museum

Photo:Ryosuke Kosuge