Okazaki Machinaka AR Walking’, an Aichi Prefecture Smart City Model Project produced by HITOHATA,INC. was implemented from 1 December 2023 (Friday) to 22 March 2024 (Friday).

The Okazaki Machinaka AR Walking project allows visitors to experience augmented reality (AR) content by reading a QR code with their smartphone camera and holding the camera over a scene (AR marker) in the city of Okazaki. The project allows visitors to experience different AR contents such as digital animation of the ukiyoe print ‘Utagawa Hiroshige: The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Highway, Okazaki: Yabayakino Bridge’ and digital animation of the legend of the ascending dragon at five spots in the city, including the Yahagi Bridge monument, the Kagoda Somon corner of Kagoda Park, the well of Tokugawa Ieyasu's birthplace in Okazaki Park, and others.

This project was carried out as a demonstration experiment for the Aichi Prefecture Smart City Model Project.

Outline of the event

[Period] 1 Dec (Fri) 2023 - 22 Mar (Fri) 2024

[Contents] By reading the QR code with a smartphone camera and holding the camera over a scene in the city of Okazaki (AR marker), visitors can experience augmented reality (AR) contents. No app download is required, and you can experience different contents at five spots in the city.

[AR Spot]

- Tokugawa Ieyasu's Sacred Hot Spring Well (in Okazaki Park)

- Yahagi Bridge monument

- Statue of Ii Naomasa, the Red Devil of Ii

- Kagota Sohmon Kakaku Everlasting Night Light (Kagota Park)

- Ieyasu and Takechiyo statue bench (Okazaki Park, Seikai-dori)

About Aichi Prefecture Smart City Model Project

This is a project in which Aichi Prefecture commissions proposed municipalities to implement projects that can serve as models for smart city initiatives and horizontally deploys the results throughout Aichi Prefecture by holding results reporting meetings, etc. The project has been implemented since fiscal year 2022.

In FY2023, seven cities and towns were selected: Okazaki, Kariya, Nisshin, Koda, Kasugai, Gamagori and Obu.

[Project name] Real Space & Virtual Space Migration Promotion Project

[Demonstration Entity]

Consortium name: Okazaki Smart Community Promotion Council

Consortium members: Okazaki City (Digital Promotion Section, Planning Section, ‘What to do with Ieyasu’ Utilisation Promotion Section), Ippiki Corporation, West Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.