A special Snoopy exhibition is coming to the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa Sakura Town this spring. The Love Love Snoopy, Take Care with Peanuts starts on February 11th 2023 at the EJ Anime Museum on the 3rd floor of the Kadokawa Culture Museum*. Interestingly, the Kadokawa Museum does not yet have the information for this event on their website. But the EJ Anime Museum now has its own website with all the details. Love Love Snoopy follows the highly successful Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N which ended today, January 29th 2023. Tickets are already on sale; see the information section at the bottom of the post for links.
*Kadokawa Culture Museum is also called Kadcul for short or Kadokawa Musashino Museum.
Love Love Snoopy
This “love” themed travelling Snoopy exhibition comes to Kadokawa Museum at the perfect time – just before Valentine’s Day. There are three concepts to the love theme, I interpret it as love yourself, love each other and love the earth. But the official English for the event is; take care of yourself, take care of each other and take care of the earth. Each of the three concepts are represented with at least one exhibit of Snoopy and Friends.
Highlights of Love Love Snoopy
- Entrance display with Snoopy and Charlie Brown statue and songs
- Three sections of Snoopy displays as outlined in the paragraph above
- Tree of kindness (below)
- Heartful market (below)
After the three concept areas there is a “tree of kindness”. You can write messages, Valentine wishes if you like, on heart shaped paper and stick them to the tree. At the end of the tour, you will find a “heartful” market where they sell literally thousands of Snoopy goods. Many of the limited edition goods for the exhibition have hearts on them, making them ideal memorabilia or gifts for Valentines day.
EJ Anime Museum
The EJ Anime Museum opened at the Kadokawa Culture Museum (Kadcul) of Tokorozawa Sakura Town on November 6th 2020. It is just one of dozens of event and entertainment spaces in Kadcul. EJ Anime Museum is located on the 3rd floor of the Kadokawa Culture Museum. EJ stands for Entertainment Japan. There is also an EJ Anime Hotel at Tokorozawa Sakura Town. It opened for business on October 1st 2020. Take a peek inside here.
A floor by floor guide of Kadcul:
Concurrent events
There are always several different events running at Sakura Town. Other events on during the period of the Snoopy exhibition include (but are not limited to):
- Night illumination – the end date hasn’t been released yet, but it will run until at least the middle of February
- A new contemporary exhibition starts on February 4th 2023 at the Grand Gallery.
- There is a Lucky Star exhibition until February 26th.
- Moreover, there is a permanent outdoor Teamlab exhibition.
Love Love Snoopy Exhibition Information
Dates: Saturday February 11th to Sunday March 26th 2023.
Hours: The museum is open from 10 am to 6 pm daily. However, the museum closes on the first, third and fifth Tuesday of each month (unless it is a national holiday and they open).
Cost: Tickets cost 1300 yen flat price per person. It is advised to purchase tickets in advance. They are already on sale and you can purchase them on EPLUS here.
Contact: The phone number of Kadcul is 0570-017-396. They man the phone from 2 pm to 5 pm on weekdays only. Kadokawa Musashino Museum official website.
Access
The EJ Anime Museum is a ten minute walk from Higashi Tokorozawa station. Keep an eye out for the LED Manhole Covers on the walk! Parking available – it costs 200 yen for 30 minutes, but capped at 600 yen on weekdays and 1800 yen on weekends. It is a ticket less parking lot.
The images were taken from the Kadokawa Corporation website.
Previous exhibitions at the EJ Anime Museum on the 3rd floor of Kadcul included
- Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N from October 8th 2022 to January 29th 2023.
- Thomas and Friends Steam Adventure from July 16th to September 25th 2022.
- Rilakkuma and Sumikkogurashi Festival from mid April to mid May 2022.
- Gundam The Origin from January 22nd to March 21st 2022
- Marvel Studios Universe of Heroes from October 2021 to January 3rd 2022
- Trigger and Good Smile summer of 2021.
- Thomas the Tank Engine in spring of 2021. (ej-anime-museum-kadcul-thomas)
- The very first exhibtion: Newtype Anime Chronicle (ej-anime-museum-kadcul)
R221003
oh man how COOL!
I might try and go to it with the kids. Still a bit nervous bringing them to indoor locations, but we’ve got to start “living” with Covid at some point!