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Architects: aat + makoto yokomizo architects
- Area: 2463 m²
- Year: 2005
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Photographs:Shigeru Ohno, Makoto Yokomizo, Christoffer Rudquist, Christian Richters
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Service Engineer: ES Associates, Eiji Sato
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Structural Engineer: Arup, Mitsuhiro Kanada
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Electrical Engineer: Arup, Naoto Hattori
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Lighting Planner: LIGHTDESIGN, Shoji Hiroyasu
Text description provided by the architects. Located in a mountain village beside a man-made lake two and a half hours' drive north of Tokyo, the Tomihiro Museum is dedicated to the work of local poet-illustrator Tomihiro Hoshino. Since 1991, when the Museum first opened on the refurbished premises of a disused home for the elderly, an average of more than 1000 persons a day have made the trip here, for a ten-year total of over 4 million visitors—a surprising number considering the remote location.
