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Kengo Kuma clad it in 20,000 irregular granite slabs; at its heart is a theatre walled in eight-metre bookshelves.
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Tokorozawa Sakura Town (Japanese: ところざわサクラタウン, Hepburn: Tokorozawa Sakura Taun) is a pop cultural attraction complex in Tokorozawa, 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 (closed down in 2022) 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.
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Founded / opened：2020 Architect / artist：Kengo Kuma Highlights / collection：Bookshelf Theatre, Exterior walls of 20,000 granite slabs Genre：Architecture, Contemporary art, Manga and anime
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