Hiroshima Dreamination
Hiroshima Dreamination (ひろしまドリミネーション) 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 ==
== Sites ==
Green belt of Peace Boulevard – main venueNamiki-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
== 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 (in Japanese)
Hiroshima Dreamination 2008