The Wall of Manga
The ‘Wall of Manga’ bookshelves that cover the walls throughout the museum hold about 50,000 manga books published since the 1970s.
The books are all readily accessible, so please take your time pondering over which ones to read.
The books are all readily accessible, so please take your time pondering over which ones to read.
Research Reference Room
About 250,000 materials are kept in the archive for conservation. After registering in the research reference room, you can access materials from the basement archive, such as old manga magazines.
The ‘Wall of Manga’ bookshelves that stretch from the first to the third floor of the museum, are packed full of manga. You cannot help being excited even you aren’t so familiar with manga.
It’s great to read outside sprawled out on the green grass, or in a corner nook of the staircase. Manga is best read while relaxing, so please spend your time at ease, reading in your own style.
Japanese manga as well as translations and comics from abroad.
A resource naturally suitable for visitors with research purposes, but also for people who just want to read old magazines from long ago. Head to the third floor research reference room!
Within the hidden underground archives of the manga museum, sleeps a trove of nostalgic magazines that many of our visitors would have read years ago, including issues of Jump, Sunday, and Magazine, to Margaret, Ribon, and Nakayoshi.
