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Ichikawa Literature Museum 市川市文学ミュージアム

A free literary museum in Ichikawas lifelong-learning centre celebrating writers who lived in the city, above all Kafu Nagai, whose final years in Ichikawa are told through manuscripts and touch-screen exhibits.

Hours10:00-19:30 (weekends and holidays until 18:00)
ClosedMondays (Tuesday if holiday), last weekday of month, New Year
PriceMain exhibition floor: Free
Special exhibitions, adult: ¥500
Getting thereMotoyawata Station (JR Sobu Line), 15 min or free shuttle; Onigoe Station (Keisei), 10 min
Time needed45 min
Best timeWeekday evenings
Address1-1-4 Onitaka, Ichikawa, Chiba (Ichikawa Lifelong Learning Center 2F)
Websitecity.ichikawa.lg.jp/cul06/litera.html

About

Ichikawa was a favourite suburban retreat for writers: Kafu Nagai spent his last years here and died in Yawata in 1959, while the screenwriter Yoko Mizuki, the poet Hakushu Kitahara and Rohan Kodas daughter Aya Koda also lived in the city. The Literature Museum occupies part of the Ichikawa Lifelong Learning Center near Motoyawata and presents these figures through manuscripts, photographs and large touch-screen panels in the free main exhibition. Paid special exhibitions rotate several times a year, and the attached library makes it a quiet place to linger. It stays open into the evening on weekdays, unusual for a museum.

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