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.
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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.
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