Tokyo Anime Dispatch

On July 11, 2026, the Aomori edition of the Ukiyoe Immersive Art Exhibition opened at To-o Nippo Shinmachi Building New's Hall. The official English page says the exhibition runs through August 30, 2026, with daily hours from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and last entry at 5:30 PM. The press release adds that opening day includes a night museum program and frames the show as part of a touring digital-art project that has already immersed a cumulative 500,000 visitors worldwide. What Was Announced The official page describes the Aomori stop as a temporary immersive museum where more than 300 works by Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Sharaku, and Kunisada are transformed through 3DCG animation and projection mapping. That matters because the exhibition is not presenting ukiyo-e as a static wall of prints; it is treating the art as a moving environment. The release also makes the regional angle explicit. Aomori is the Tohoku debut for this touring exhibition, so the opening is not...

On June 29, 2026, the organizers behind Ukiyo-e Immersive Art AOMORI announced a summer visitor campaign that ties the show to Aomori's local dress culture. Anyone who arrives wearing a kimono, yukata, furisode, hakama, or a Nebuta haneto costume can get 100 yen off a same-day admission ticket when they buy it at the venue. The exhibition itself opens on July 11, 2026, at Tohoku Nippo Shinmachi Building New's Hall in Aomori and runs through August 30. What Was Announced The campaign is straightforward: show up in qualifying attire, buy the ticket on site, and the discount applies to that person alone. The official notice says the offer cannot be combined with other discounts or benefits. The same release also frames the exhibition as a large-scale immersive work built from more than 300 ukiyo-e pieces by artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Kuniyoshi, with 3DCG animation and projection mapping turning the prints into a moving environment. Why It Matters ...