Hiroshima Dreamination
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".
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.Theme and staging dates
Sites
- Green belt of Peace Boulevard – main venue
Area | Location on Peace Boulevard | Area | Location on Peace Boulevard |
Fruit grove | NHK Hiroshima | Guardian grove | Hotel Sunroute Hiroshima |
Tower of the origami crane | ANA Crown Plaza Hiroshima | Dream tree | Hotel Dormy Inn Hiroshima |
Peace Castle | Hiroshima Crystal Plaza | Holy place | Hiroshima Daini Yuraku Building |
Hopes of the citizens | Mitsui Garden Hotel Hiroshima | Sailing ship of healing | Takeda Hiroshima Building |
Happy land | Hiroshima Tokyu Inn | Phoenix hill | Chugoku Apollo |
Snowfield of auroras | Kouwa building | Paradise of angels | Hiroshima Shinkin Bank |
Wings | Oriental Hotel Hiroshima | Protective god Dragon | Hiroshima Kenshin |
- 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
Sponsorships
Sponsor
- 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