This two-storey apartment building is the former home of Japanese manga luminaries such as Tezuka Osamu, Fujiko F Fujio and Shotaro Ishinomori. It’s now preserved as a museum full of Showa period (1926-1989) charm and recreated rooms dedicated to some of Japan’s most important manga artists.
The building was first constructed in 1952, with Tezuka Osamu moving in the following year, before several other manga artists also made it their home. In 1982, the building was demolished, but the rooms have been recreated to look as they did when the manga artists lived there. Many of the rooms have the same interior, while the common kitchen and toilet have been kept as close to the original as possible.
The rooms were recreated by speaking to the manga artists who lived in the building. This level of detail can be seen (or rather, heard) in the staircase, which was rebuilt to make a creaking sound, just like it did in the past.