Fujiko F. Fujio Museum

About

The Fujiko F. Fujio Museum opened in Kawasaki's Tama ward on September 3, 2011. It was built to honor manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio, creator of Doraemon and many other characters, out of his widow's wish to 'return a favor to the children who supported my husband's manga.' Inside the three-story building, the artist's original color artworks are hung across two exhibition rooms, followed by 'Fujiko F. Fujio's Study,' a reproduction of his actual workspace and library, the 'Animal's Room' filled with paper-cut character designs, and 'Fujiko F. Fujio's Day Off,' which shows his everyday family moments. Climb to the third-floor rooftop playground and manga characters seem to greet visitors there; in the manga reading rooms, guests can leaf freely through his works. Between a theater screening films shown nowhere else and a themed café, the artist's world seeps into every corner of the museum.