Mizuki Shigeru's Places
The road of bronze yokai, the museum at its end, a statue returned to its valley, and the tea house of his later town
4 places
Mizuki Shigeru drew the yokai that most people picture when they hear the word, and many of them were words on a folklorist’s card before he drew them. His home town has made a street and a museum of that work. The third place here goes the other way: a statue of one of his creatures, set up in the mountain valley where the record he worked from was made. The fourth is the tea house in the Tokyo suburb where he lived and worked from 1959.
Mizuki Shigeru Road 水木しげるロード
Eight hundred metres of bronze yokai from the station to the museum, in the port town where the artist grew up.
Yokai you will meet: Nurikabe, Ittan-momen, Konaki-jiji, Nurarihyon, Azuki-arai, Betobeto-san, Kappa, Tengu
Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum 水木しげる記念館
The museum at the end of the road: the artist's life, his original drawings and the yokai gallery, rebuilt and reopened in 2024.
Yokai you will meet: Nurikabe, Ittan-momen, Konaki-jiji, Nurarihyon
The Konaki-jiji Statue at Fujikawa Valley 児啼爺の碑（藤川谷）
A stone statue of the crying old man by a mountain road above the Ōboke gorge, in the valley where the 1938 record placed him.
Yokai you will meet: Konaki-jiji
Kitarō Chaya 鬼太郎茶屋
The yokai tea house of the town where Mizuki Shigeru lived for half a century, now on the shopping street by Chōfu station.
Yokai you will meet: Nurikabe, Ittan-momen, Konaki-jiji, Sunekosuri
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.