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4F Assembly Hall / History Museum / Archive Corner

This area is divided into two sections: one for the desks and chairs found in the assembly halls of prefectures and municipalities, and the other for a look back at the history of Kotobuki Seating. In the History Museum, you can see nostalgic seats that everyone has sat on and historical products that are rarely seen nowadays. In the Archive Corner, visitors can view valuable materials from the Taisho to the early Showa period, as well as catalogs and photographs of our products from the past.

“Movable” Floor Furniture for assembly halls

Traditionally, Japanese assembly halls featured fixed seating and desks for members, but flexible layouts are now gaining traction. These adaptable Assembly spaces offer greater utility, allowing them to be quickly converted into emergency response centers during natural disasters or utilized by residents as multi-purpose halls when the legislature is not in session.


Assembly Mode


Community Mode

Our retractable seating system is on display at the rear of the showroom. It is configured to show two configurations: the "Assembly Mode," intended for use as spectator seating for council proceedings, and the "Community Mode", which allows the venue to function as a multi-purpose hall open to the community.
By letting you experience the products that make a flexible assembly hall possible, visitors can explore new concepts for future council chamber designs.
 

Kotobuki Seating’s progress over more than 100 years

Kotobuki Seating produced the first connected seats in Japan. The seats of Yasuda Auditorium in The University of Tokyo and Suntory Hall, which are epoch-making facilities that play an essential role in the history of public halls in Japan, are displayed.

Benches at stations in Japan that everybody has sat in at least once, a replica of the face of the Tower of the Sun from Osaka Expo, which is a symbol of Japan’s period of high-level economic growth, and various rare items that cannot be seen in other museums are all displayed.

Search and browse over 100 years of valuable materials.

Kotobuki Seating celebrated our 100th anniversary in 2014. At the Archive Corner, you can find materials that were gathered during the publication of the special magazine to commemorate our 100th anniversary, Hundred years story of KOTOBUKI. In addition, it systematically stores valuable documents, catalogs, and photographs of case studies from the Taisho and early Showa eras, allowing you to search and view the history of our company.

This exhibit shows the flow of products in major markets, from the chairs used in The University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium, which marked the start of our transition to focusing on public furniture up to the present.

The photographs and drawings of products that we had supplied to famous buildings in each era can be viewed on a large monitor. You can also pick up catalogs and pamphlets that chronicle the economic boom in the Japanese society before and after the war from the display shelves and browse them.