Hiroshima Dreamination

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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".

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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.

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Theme and staging dates

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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

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Illuminated streetcars

• Illuminated streetcars are operated by Hiroshima Electric Railway

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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

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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

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References

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External links

• Hiroshima Dreamination Official website (in Japanese)
• Hiroshima Dreamination 2008

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