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Hiroshima Dreamination

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Genre
  
Lighting

Founded
  
2002

Location(s)
  
Hiroshima

Hiroshima Dreamination (ひろしまドリミネーション) is a winter festival of electric light held in Hiroshima, Japan since 2002. "Dreamination" is a composite word coined from "dream" and "illumination".

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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.

Sites

  • Green belt of Peace Boulevard - main venue
  • Namiki-dori
  • Kinzagai
  • Chuo-dori
  • Hondōri
  • 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.
  • Kamiyachō 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
  • Hiroshima Light-up Project Executive Committee

    • Co-sponsors

  • Chugoku Shimbun - Japanese daily newspaper for Chūgoku 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

    Hiroshima Dreamination Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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