East Japan Railway\u00a0(JR East)\u00a0held a kickoff ceremony Tuesday for a project to remake Ueno Station in Tokyo as a cultural innovation hub.<\/p>\n
The project, which follows the completion of renovation work at the station, a long-standing gateway linking Tokyo with northern and central Japan, is being carried out in partnership with local governments and nearby cultural institutions.<\/p>\n
The initiative will offer visitors opportunities to view artworks and interact with digital art at the station in Tokyo\u2019s Taito Ward, turning it into a venue for cultural experiences.<\/p>\n
Ueno Station\u2019s expanded concourse outside the central ticket gates features a large digital screen showing videos such as of\u00a0its history.<\/p>\n
JR East is also introducing\u00a0QR\u00a0codes that will provide information on eight artworks displayed at the station, including two statues of women by Japanese sculptor Fumio Asakura.<\/p>\n
The company plans to more closely collaborate\u00a0with leading museums and art galleries in Ueno Park as well as with the Tokyo University of the Arts, which has a campus in the area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to build, together with the local community, a district that people will want to visit again and again,\u201d Yoichi Kise, JR East president and CEO,\u00a0 said at the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Japan Railway\u00a0(JR East)\u00a0held a kickoff ceremony Tuesday for a project to remake Ueno Station in Tokyo as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,30228,4459,52,14121],"class_list":["post-42258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-japan","tag-jr","tag-jr-east","tag-tokyo","tag-ueno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}