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Tokyo’s Shinjuku District About To Get Even More Animated With Nightly Projection Mapping Shows

The bustling Shinjuku business and entertainment district of Tokyo is about to host what is billed as the largest permanent projection mapping experience – nightly shows on a 48-storey office tower. Starting Feb. 25th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is hosting the free nightly projection mapping displays  – calling it “Tokyo Night & Light.” The year-round …

Japanese Railway Auto-Translates Customer Queries As Chats On Transparent Screens In Station

A Japanese passenger railway has started testing a service that auto-translates conversations at customer information counters – enabling foreign travellers with little or no Japanese to get answers returned in their language on a transparent screen that sits between the railway staffer and the traveler. Seibu Railway is testing what it calls polyglot simultaneous translation …

1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station

Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …