Experience corner
Experience corner
This interactive display area offers numerous experiences of the Hiroshima spirit of harmony. Here visitors can enjoy a tea ceremony by the Wafukai tea house of the Ueda Soko School, exhibits and try-on events for samurai armor and kagura robes, and projection mapping using saké barrels. Other exhibits include virtual-reality presentations on tourism and agriculture as well as “mini-experiences” on the environment.
・Tea Ceremony - the UEDA Sōko School
・BARREL OF HIROSHIMA projection mapping
・Smart Glasses for Grape Thinning
・Costumes wearing experience for “kagura” a traditional performing art of Hiroshima
・The Realization of CUP TO CUP
・Seto Inland Sea VR sightseeing experience
・Costumes wearing experience for “kagura” a traditional performing art of Hiroshima
・Costumes wearing experience for “Kabuto” a decoration Samurai helmet
・Greeting Aki Hiroshima Busho-Tai
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Tea Ceremony - the UEDA Sōko School
（Ueda Sōko School of Tea (Wafū Association)）
Matcha tea served by members of the UEDA Sōko School of tea ceremony, trained by 16th grandmaster, UEDA Sōkei. The Ueda School values ‘purity’ 清 and ‘quietude’ 静. Amid the business of the International Media Centre, you are invited for a moment of peaceful contemplation with a seasonal wagashi sweet and bowl of matcha tea
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BARREL OF HIROSHIMA projection mapping
（Hiroshima Home Television Co., Ltd.）
Hiroshima is one of Japan's premier sake brewery regions.
We showcase the barrels full of Hiroshima charms through projection mapping.
Planning & Production by Hiroshima Home Television Co., Ltd.
Cooperation by WHITE BASE, LLC
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Smart Glasses for Grape Thinning
（Grape farm management DX project
Member： University of Yamanashi，
Founder： Hiroshima Pref.）
Shine Muscat is a grape variety created in Japan, characterized by its incredibly pleasant aroma, astonishing sweetness, and large-sized grape. In grape cultivation, the most important task is grape thinning. Thinning involves removing unnecessary grapes to ensure sufficient growth space, which allows for the development of large, delicious grapes and beautiful clusters. However, this task requires skill.
The grape-thinning support smart glasses acquire the expertise of skilled artisans through AI and use deep neural network technology to analyze the clusters during the thinning process, predicting the number of grapes and which grapes should be removed. Then, by displaying instructions on a head-mounted display using augmented reality technology, it is expected that anyone will be able to perform grape thinning.
This technology is currently under development in a project supported by Hiroshima Prefecture.
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Costumes wearing experience for “kagura” a traditional performing art of Hiroshima
（Hiroshima Prefectural Kake High School (Geihoku branch school) Kagura Club）
Costumes of kagura vary from troupe to troupe.
These costumes are those of Hiroshima Prefectural Kake High School (Geihoku branch school) Kagura Club.
Onigi
Program: Yumi Hachiman
Costume for the role of Dai Akuma Ou, a demon
Suikan
Ohshin
Costume for the role of a god who slays demons
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The Realization of CUP TO CUP
（TOKAN KOGYO CO.,LTD）
This initiative is to recycle cups that had been disposed of as garbage after use through the CUP TO CUP mechanism. By encouraging consumers to participate in the action of using the Re-CUP WASHER to remove food residues from the inner surface of cups (behavior change), we aim to turn cups into "resources" and realize a zero waste society.
Re-CUP WASHER is the first step toward realizing a circular economy for cups made of paper, resin, aluminum, and other materials.
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Seto Inland Sea VR sightseeing experience
（PROJECT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ASSOCIATION OF MAYORS OF HIROSHIMA, OKAYAMA, MATSUYAMA AND TAKAMATSU）
This is a VR video filled with the charm of Hiroshima, Okayama, Takamatsu, and Matsuyama, which are the representative cities of the Seto Inland Sea.
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Costumes wearing experience for “kagura” a traditional performing art of Hiroshima
（Hiroshima kaguradan (5 Cities and Towns jointly)）
Yoten
Worn in the role of demons (villains), these robes are also called onigi. The embroidery on the back and sleeves displayed the high aesthetic standards of the kagura troupe it represents. Every part of these robes are crafted by hand by artisans and can take over a year to complete. Because yoten can only be purchased infrequently, they are used with care for decades and repaired from time to time as needed.
Costumes wearing experience for “Kabuto”a decoration Samurai helmet
（“Mitsuya No Oshie” Council）
MORI Motonari, a daimyo of the Warring States period, is said to have advised his three sons to act in unison because “one arrow alone can be broken, but three arrows tightly bound together cannot”. This parable is called the “lesson of the three arrows“. In Japanese, it is called "Mitsuya no Oshie".
Greeting Aki Hiroshima Busho-Tai
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