Hiroshima Dreamination (????????????) is a winter festival of electric light held in Hiroshima, Japan since 2002. "Dreamination" is a composite word coined from "dream" and "illumination".
Video Hiroshima Dreamination
Overview
The festival is hosted by the Light-up Hiroshima Project Executive Committee and supported by all public and private broadcasters in Hiroshima as a winter night attraction in for residents and visitors. Every street in downtown Hiroshima, together with the town squares are illuminated with a million and a half LED lights.
Maps Hiroshima Dreamination
Theme and staging dates
Sites
- Green belt of Peace Boulevard - main venue
- Namiki-dori
- Kinzagai
- Chuo-dori
- Hond?ri
- Nakanotana
- Hiroshima Alice Garden
- Higashi-Shinnten-chi public plaza
- Eastern riverside of Motoyasu River
- The former Hiroshima Branch of the Bank of Japan - one of the Hiroshima buildings hit by the 1945 atomic bomb.
- Kamiyach? Shareo
- NTT Motomachi Cred
- Hakushima Q-Garden
- Urban View Grand Tower
Illuminated streetcars
- Illuminated streetcars are operated by Hiroshima Electric Railway
Events
- Opening Event - parade, opening ceremony, lighting up ceremony, mini concerts on the first day
- Memorial Light up Ceremony and Mini Concert - every Saturday and on two national holidays in front of Hiroshima Crystal Plaza on Peace Boulevard
- Photo Contest
- Monument Design Contest
- Dreami coffee shop
Sponsorships
Sponsor
- Hiroshima Light-up Project Executive Committee
Co-sponsors
- Chugoku Shimbun - Japanese daily newspaper for Ch?goku region, based in Hiroshima
- NHK Hiroshima - Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Hiroshima
- Hiroshima Telecasting
- Hiroshima Home Television
- Shinhiroshima Telecasting
- Hiroshima FM
- Hiroshima P-station
- Fureai Channel
References
External links
- Hiroshima Dreamination Official website (in Japanese)
- Hiroshima Dreamination 2008
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