水木しげる記念館 · Museum · Sakaiminato, Tottori
Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
The museum at the end of the road: the artist's life, his original drawings and the yokai gallery, rebuilt and reopened in 2024.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Museum
- Prefecture
- Tottori · Sakaiminato
- Nearest station
- Sakaiminato Station (JR Sakai Line)
- From the station
- About ten minutes on foot along Mizuki Shigeru Road
- English signage
- some
- Opening hours and admission
- See the official site (external link) · information checked on 2026-11-03
Hours, admission and closing days change, and this site does not list them. The link goes to the place's own page, with the date we last checked it.
What is there
The museum stands at the far end of Mizuki Shigeru Road. It opened in 2003 and was rebuilt from the ground up, reopening in April 2024 with rooms on the artist’s childhood in Sakaiminato, the war in New Guinea where he lost his left arm, the years of street theatre and rental manga, and the long success that followed. Original drawings hang beside the picture books, and the yokai gallery sets his pictures of the creatures beside the tales they came from.Why here
Mizuki’s yokai pictures drew on two kinds of record: the picture scrolls and picture books of the Edo period, and the folklore collections of the 1930s that recorded yokai by name and habit without a picture. For the second kind he invented the faces, and his faces became the standard. The museum shows the drawings; the articles on this site show the records they started from.Yokai you will meet
- Nurikabe 塗り壁 — The drawing that gave the recorded wall its face.
- Ittan-momen 一反木綿 — The flying cotton of the Kagoshima records, as Mizuki drew it.
- Konaki-jiji 児啼爺 — The crying old man of the Tokushima record.
- Nurarihyon 滑瓢 — The old gentleman of the scrolls who became the yokai chief in Mizuki's work.
In manga: GeGeGe no Kitarō
Getting there
Sakaiminato Station (JR Sakai Line). About ten minutes on foot along Mizuki Shigeru Road.
Sources and further reading
- Museum Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum (external link) Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum Official site of the museum, rebuilt and reopened in April 2024.
- Museum Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum: information (external link) Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum Visiting information and access.
- Database Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum (水木しげる記念館) (external link) Wikipedia (Japanese) Opened 2003 on the artist's birthday; closed for rebuilding in 2023 and reopened on 20 April 2024.
Other places with these yokai
- Mizuki Shigeru Road 水木しげるロード Street
- Kitarō Chaya 鬼太郎茶屋 Shop
- The Konaki-jiji Statue at Fujikawa Valley 児啼爺の碑（藤川谷） Site
- Yokai Yashiki at Ōboke 妖怪屋敷と石の博物館（道の駅大歩危） Museum
Other places in Tottori
- Mizuki Shigeru Road 水木しげるロード Street