Hiroshima Dreamination Explained

Hiroshima Dreamination
Founded:	2002
Website:	http://www.dreamination.com

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

Year	Theme	Period
2002^[1]	Peaceful land and a witch – turn the town into the fairyland	November 6 – December 31, 2002; 18:00–23:00
2003^[2]	Fairyland – story of The Dragon and the George	November 15, 2003 – Jananuary 12, 2004; 17:00–23:00
2004^[3]	Fairyland – story of a winemaker and a Christmas tree on a starlit hill	November 17, 2004 – January 3, 2005; 17:00–23:00
2005^[4]	Fairyland – story of a prince in merry-go-land in Hartland	November 17, 2005 – January 3, 2006; 17:00–23:00
2006^[5]	Fairyland – story of Maeterlinck's Blue Bird	November 17, 2006 – January 3, 2007; 17:00–23:00
2007^[6]	Fairyland	November 17, 2007 – January 3, 2008; 17:00–23:00
2008^[7]	Fairyland	November 17, 2008 – January 3, 2009; 17:30–23:00
2009^[8]	Fairyland	November 6, 2009 – January 3, 2010; 17:30–23:00

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^[9]

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

External links

• Hiroshima Dreamination Official website
• Hiroshima Dreamination 2008

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2002 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090925163034/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2002/index.html . 2009-09-25 . dead .
2. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2003 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924064659/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2003/index.html . 2009-09-24 . dead .
3. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2004 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924064440/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2004/index.html . 2009-09-24 . dead .
4. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2005 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924064706/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2005/index.html . 2009-09-24 . dead .
5. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2006 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924064711/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2006/index.html . 2009-09-24 . dead .
6. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2007 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924064447/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2007/index.html . 2009-09-24 . dead .
7. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2008 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923130722/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2008/index.html . 2009-09-23 . dead .
8. Web site: Hiroshima Dreamination 2009 . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091001112703/http://www.dreamination.com/back_2009/index.html . 2009-10-01 . dead .
9. Web site: Hiroden Illuminated streetcars . 2009-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100910153904/http://www.hiroden.co.jp/what/new/topic0310-12.htm . 2010-09-10 . dead .