Shotaro Ishinomori: the real places
Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009 and about five hundred other titles, by a man from Miyagi who drew more published pages than anyone in the world. Ishinomaki is where the prefecture put the museum, on an island in the river, and it turned the kilometre of street leading to it into a manga road with his characters standing along it. Two things to know before going: it is two and a half hours from Tokyo, so this is a day rather than a detour, and the museum has closures planned through 2026 and 2027 while the third floor is rebuilt. Also worth knowing quietly — the island the museum sits on was under the 2011 tsunami, and the building reopened in 2012.
3 places
Statue
Rider V3, Ishinomaki city hall
Rider V3 outside the city hall, which the city names as the start of the manga road. A statue in front of the building where people renew their residence certificates is the whole idea of this category in one image.
- Address
- 宮城県石巻市 石巻市庁舎前（マンガロード起点）
- Getting there
- JR Ishinomaki, about 5 min on foot
Five minutes from the station, at the top of the road: start here and walk down to the museum rather than the other way round.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Street
Ishinomaki manga road
About a kilometre of street between the city hall and the museum, with his characters standing along it — Cyborg 009 among them — and murals by graffiti artists on the walls between. The city describes it as running from Rider V3 at one end to Sea Jetter Kaito at the other, which is as good a set of directions as any.
- Address
- 宮城県石巻市（市庁舎から石ノ森萬画館までの約1キロメートル）
- Getting there
- JR Ishinomaki, the road runs from the station side to the museum
It is the walk from the station to the museum, so you do it whether you meant to or not. Outdoors and free.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Museum · Rules of its own
Ishinomori Mangattan Museum
A round white building on Nakase, the island in the Kitakami, holding original artwork, the Heisei Rider masks, a transformation attraction and an original film shown nowhere else. The city's own page lists it as its museum rather than as a licence shop, which is the right way round.
- Address
- 宮城県石巻市中瀬2番7号
- Getting there
- JR Ishinomaki, about 12 min on foot down the manga road
Twelve minutes on foot from Ishinomaki station, along the manga road. The city gives admission from 20 March 2026 as 1,300 yen for adults, 600 for secondary pupils, 400 for primary, free below.
Rules of its own. Closures are planned across 2026 and 2027 while the third floor is rebuilt — check the museum's own dates before committing a day and a two-and-a-half-hour journey to it. A museum of original pages, so its rules on photography apply inside.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
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