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The Usuhara Town Library

Usharasa is a small mountain town in the coache prefecture in japan. It has this big, beautiful library that looks like something out of an adult distopean. There are bean bag chairs everywhere and little nets and hammocks to sit on. Inside there's this incredible lattice of wooden beams that come down from the ceiling.

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