HANABIRIUM

Just below the fireworks! Miraculous, live-action footage 360-degree, all-encompassing fireworks!

Welcome to a whole new planetarium experience! More than 1,000 fireworks displays are held across Japan every year, attracting a total of 70 million visitors. These pyrotechnic displays are one of the most beloved events in Japan.

Genre: Art / Music, Science / Audience: Children, Family / Duration: Approx. 25min
©Nihonbashi Marutamaya

Flower Universe

Makoto Azuma is the flower artist, who launched the experimental botanical lab Azuma Makoto Kaju Kenkyusho (AMKK).
He has been focusing on his project arranging flowers in all kinds of mundane situations that don’t occur in the realm of nature,
and continues to pursue the beauty of plants from a unique point of view.
This show lets us experience his world with powerful fulldome movie.
Brightly colored flower planet is taken by high-resolution 4K camera, emerges in the outer space filled in the dome.
It is an experimental show as if traveling back and forth between flowers and universe as well as micro and macro world.

Genre: Art / Music / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 10min
©NHK Enterprises/P.I.C.S

Starry Night Concert

Twinkling stars.
When you listen carefully under the starry sky, you feel like the night sky with the music played by constellations...
Let's set out on a journey of imagination with the original image and soundtrack based on the zodiacal constellations.
It is a new type of fulldome program letting the image play music.

Genre: Art / Music / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 10min
©NHK Enterprises/P.I.C.S

Butterfly

Butterflies developing from egg to adult, growing with colored wings and taking off to the sky
This CG animation features the short life of a butterfly with brilliance of the life of a butterfly and vividness of fluttering butterfly.
It is a musical-like experience-based program which synchronizes colorful image and uplifting music.

Genre: Art / Music / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 10min
©NHK Enterprises/P.I.C.S

MUSICAWhy is the Universe Beautiful?

Have you ever asked yourself, "What is beauty?" We have been searching for that answer since the dawn of mankind. The answer may lead us to question why we exist. You can find hints everywhere around yourself, and far away in the Universe - as if they are waiting to be found. This show consists of visual and musical beauty in a prose poem. It is light and pleasant, yet is a revealing immersive experience. It is to be understood not only in your mind, but in your heart as well. That is because the truth of the Universe - "Musica" - exists in you.

Genre: Art / Music, Science / Audience: General Audience / Duration: Approx. 26min
©Yamanashi Prefectural Science Center/ Live Company Ltd.