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Ikushima Library Is the Most Incredible Booklover’s Paradise in Japan

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Tell me where there exists a booklover’s heaven in Japan? 

This library is none other than the Ikushima Library. It rises in the outskirts west of Tokyo, in the same Kokubunji where the most celebrated Japanese contemporary writer Haruki Murakami ran his Jazz Bar.  

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The Ikushima Library is owned by two Japanese writers who planned a house that doubled their workspace.

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This library’s shelves has been carved and perfected beautifully, in clean architecture. It is designed not by people, but by tons and tons of books!

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Everyone dubs this enormous structure as a “House of Books, with Family.” At night it looks more beautiful!

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Tell me what you think about this place.

Photos from (Atelier Bow Wow)// More bookish stuff at bookmania.me

Deep rivers run quiet.

— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a
long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood