Yokote Masuda Manga Museum

This art museum, specialized in original manga drawing, was opened in 1995 in Masuda, the hometown of manga artist, Takao Yaguchi who swept the world with Tsurikichi Sanpei. The Museum's first mission is to preserve the original drawings which manga artists made such efforts to create. The collection holds more than 400,000 sheets drawn by more than 180 artists.

The permanent exhibition room with a beech tree representing a childhood memory is lined with original drawings of classic manga scenes. While you are looking at these images, you will be taken back to your childhood. The manga culture exhibition room has a display designed after the boxes in manga pages, which explains manga culture in easy terms. Masuda is a town of storage. There is a manga storage display room, securely preserving the original drawings.

The manga library where you can view 25,000 comic books, the museum shop offering manga-related goods, and other fun facilities are there to entertain manga fans, as well as events and special exhibitions.