Aug 31, 2016 - 1 min read

Tottori Mizuki Shigeru Museum and Road

Visiting the home of the father of "yokai" characters

By George Popescu

Community writer

Sakaiminato station with a huge mural of yokai charaters

Near the station there is a huge map of Sanin city

This is a nearby pond full of various characters

The whole road is dedicated to Mizuki Shigeru

There are various objects of yokai theme in town

Even the taxi cars have a yokai theme to them

Inside the museum you can see various artworks

There is a place where you can pose and be part of the action

Some characters are almost coming alive in statue form

The walls have manga examples of the famous works

There is also a garden at the back of the museum

The Mizuki Shigeru museum is at the end of the road with the same name which incidentally starts right at Sakaiminato station. The road is peppered with small statues of the many characters from the famous manga "GeGeGe Kitaro".

The whole area is an homage to the artist who live in Tottori and created the "yokai" type of characters for Japanese comics. At the end of the road is a museum dedicated to this famous artist and inside you can see more examples of the characters, as well as a history of his life and even some of his personal belongings.

His life was quite interesting and I won't spoil it for you here but he traveled abroad quite a lot to get information from which to craft his stories and characters. This is a must for fans of manga or "yokai" characters and there are many stores selling merchandise along the road, and the characters are incredibly fun and creative.