Kadokawa Musashino Museum

Floor Guide

▸ 1F

This garden recreates the former “Aogaki Sanso,” designed by Seijun Nishihata of Sora Botanical Garden, with the Chinese tulip tree beloved by Minamoto Yoshizono at its center, along with the seven autumn herbs and weeping cherry trees. Visitors holding a ticket for the Manga & Light Novel Library may enter the garden (closed in severe weather).


A roughly 1,000 m² space that presents experimental exhibitions with bold compositions, displaying all things with stories to tell—nature, science, art, museums, fashion, the environment, society, and more. Science becomes artistic, museums become fashionable, art comes with stories, and the past meets the future. It is a place to discover something new where one thing intersects with another.


A space that shares and develops the world of “light novels and manga” conveyed by KADOKAWA together with readers. It houses nearly all light novels published by the KADOKAWA Group, as well as light novels from various other publishers, making it Japan’s most extensive library for light novels. Through a variety of approaches, including the development of genre classifications for light novels and manga, it showcases their appeal. It also carries KADOKAWA’s children’s books, totaling approximately 35,000 volumes.

▸ 2F

A wide selection of original goods unique to the Kadokawa Musashino Museum, cute items for everyday use, and various crafts made in Musashino. The shop also offers merchandise inspired by the museum’s distinctive architecture.


A wide variety of original products, including original sweets made with sweet potatoes, a specialty of Tokorozawa.

▸ 3F

EJ stands for “Entertainment Japan.” This museum presents anime, a cultural form that Japan is proud to share with the world, from its own unique perspective. It introduces anime as works created by many forms of creativity—original works, studios, cast, staff, and more—and showcases the full scope of entertainment surrounding them, including books, films, games, and merchandise.

▸ 4F

A library space like a “town,” where you can feel the breath and bustle of books. Under the supervision of Director Seigo Matsuoka, approximately 25,000 books are arranged according to “nine contexts” for understanding the world. It is a groundbreaking and advanced model of book selection unlike anything in conventional libraries.


A chamber of wonders supervised by Hiroshi Aramata, crafted with a special focus on how to present “imagination” and “anima.” Filled with every kind of surprise, it offers a wide variety of experience-focused exhibits, from the birth of life to a mechanical zoetrope, from the essence of a Wunderkammer to the pinnacle of the academic.


A space surrounded by giant bookshelves approximately 8 meters high. KADOKAWA publications, along with the private collections of Minamoto Yoshizono, Kenkichi Yamamoto, Michizo Takeuchi, and Morisane Hokama, are displayed together. The Book Hall Theater also regularly screens projection mappings based on the concept of “playing with books, interacting with books.”

▸ 5F

A space for exploration and exchange that uncovers and shares the appeal of the Musashino region, stretching across Saitama, Chiba, and Tokyo and now home to 10 million people.


Showcasing the charm of Musashino, this restaurant serves original local-production, local-consumption cuisine.