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Tokorozawa Sakura Town is a pop cultural attraction complex in
Tokorozawa
is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 344,194 in 163,675 households and a population density of 4800 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Tokorozawa is located in the ce ...
, Saitama, Japan which opened in the fall of 2020. It is a joint project of the Kadokawa Corporation and the city of Tokorozawa. The development has five main components; the Kadokawa Culture Center, the Da Vinci store, the EJ Anime hotel, Japan Pavilion, and the Musashino Reiwa Shrine. It had a partial opening on April 1, 2020, and opened fully on November 6 of the same year.
Kadokawa Culture Center
The Kadokawa Culture Museum is multiple museum building designed byKengo Kuma
is a Japanese architect and professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate School of Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writin ...
(famed for his Japan National Stadium
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, the host venue of the 2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
in Tokyo
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). It features the permanent outdoor art instillation " Resonating Life in the Acorn Forest" by TeamLab
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as well as a double-height 8 meter tall library housing fifty thousand plus volumes which can morph into a 'bookshelf theater' via projection mapping
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.
The museum structure is a monolith, the facade of which is clad in 20,000 plus granite
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pieces fitted to the multiple shifts within its obtuse shape. Kuma has said of the building's design that "It represents the Earth
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's energy that breaks through the ground".
The Da Vinci Store
An experience based book store carrying some 40,000 titles, ten thousand of which are from the Kadokawa corporation. The bookstore is run by the Kadokawa Corporation's editorial department.EJ Anime Hotel
The EJ (Entertainment Japan) Hotel is a 33 room lodging facility. The chambers offer guests an immersive experience replete with sounds, lighting, artwork, videos, and food and beverage selections evocative of and correlated to the stories the rooms are modeled after.Musashino Reiwa Shrine
This shrine, like the Kadokawa culture center is designed by Kengo Kuma. The shrine features twokomainu
, often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures either guarding the entrance or the ''honden'', or inner shrine of many Japanese Shinto shrines or kept inside the inner shrine itself, where they are not visible to the ...
sculptures at both sides of its outside entrance which were sculpted by Yoshimasa Tsuchiya. The shrine also has a mural by Yoshitaka Amano
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who is renowned for his Final Fantasy
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work.
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