Sodateru Town

Sodateru Town

The first step toward a sustainable society is that each of us starts thinking individually.
Here, in “Sodateru Town,” while having fun, you can learn what you can do now for the future, as well as social issues to be solved, through a wide range of products and solutions from inside and outside of the ​Mitsubishi Electric Group.

Thematic Exhibition: vol.4Recycling Disco
Recycling is just like a turntable... Keep it going and the party never ends!

Everybody's working hard to reduce the use of plastics. But plastics are an essential part of our daily lives.
It's inevitable that even more plastics will be used in the future.
Introduced here are a variety of plastic recycling technologies being used to contribute to a "circular economy," where resources are used over and over again.
Why not join in with us, as we dance the Recycling Disco and keep the resources cycle turning!

Exhibition Dates:Jan 26, 2023 (Thu.) 〜 Nov 27, 2023 (Mon.)

Open:11:00 〜 19:00

Admission:Free

Thematic Exhibition

Recycling Disco
Recycling is just like a turntable... Keep it going and the party never ends!

While getting into the bouncy rhythm of disco music,
let’s experience the latest plastic recycling technologies!

This is a space just like disco dance floor, where you can experience plastic sorting in a fun way as you dance and play music. Follow DJ Factory Manager's lead and boost Sodateru Town’s recycling efforts, by using a table!

"1. Collect products that may be recycled. 2. Sort out different types of plastic materials. 3. Experience how the town becomes a happier place as a result of recycled products returning to the town.
When you have accomplished these three missions, you will be a ""Recycling DJ,"" too."

Venue
2F
Period
Jan 26, 2023 (Thu.) 〜 Nov 27, 2023 (Mon.)

Experience-based Exhibition

"Plastic sorting technologies" to improve recycling efficiency

Visit to Plastic Recycling Factory

"This is the cutting edge of plastic sorting technologies!
Visit a plastic recycling factory to learn about high levels of expertise."

"This is a plastic recycling factory where we try to make home electric appliances and everyone happy with music.
In this exhibition, you can experience sorting technologies and expertise for the recycling of a variety of plastics used in home electric appliances, including TVs and air conditioners, while getting into rhythms. For statistic electricity separation, your challenge is to sort out different plastics, by adjusting electric voltage, while playing a turntable. You will also see concept models of home appliances that use plastics correctly sorted."

"Plastic sorting technologies" to contribute towards a sustainable society

Three methods are used for separation. The first one is "specific gravity separation," which utilizes buoyancy to sort plastics into those light, heavy, and other. Secondly, "static electricity separation" entails charging crushed plastics with static electricity and sorting them by adjusting voltages. The third approach is called "X-ray sorting," which picks out recyclable plastics, by using X-rays to identify and remove harmful substances.

In order to recover more plastics that can be recycled, operational knowhow is essential, as well as sorting technologies. By providing sophisticated sorting technologies to transform those at the end of their useful lives into new products, we will further contribute to creating a recycling-based society.

Venue
3F
Period
Jun 23, 2022 (Thu.) 〜 Nov 27, 2023 (Mon.)

Experience-based Exhibition

"Guidebook Application on Stations and Towns" Designed for the Revitalization of Regional Urban Economies

ekinote

ekinote@Sodateru Town

“ekinote” is a "guidebook application on stations and towns" that allows you to re-discover and gather the charm of 9,100 stations across Japan and their surrounding urban areas. This experience-based exhibition provides the simulation of a future that ekinote aims to create, starting from stations. In this future, you can discover information that you didn't have, and everyone joins in building a town.

We hope you enjoy this experience, in which you can "discover" information around the Ginza Station and "grow" towns, by posting your own recommendations surrounding your local or favorite stations.

Venue
3F
Period
Mar 17, 2022 (Thu.) 〜 Nov 27, 2023 (Mon.)

Mitsubishi Electric's Initiatives toward Future

Open Technology Bank

As a comprehensive electrical machinery maker involved in a wide range of businesses from home electrical appliances to aerospace, Mitsubishi Electric possesses abundant technologies useful for solving issues in various fields.

Our initiative, "Open Technology Bank," is the licensing service of technological assets developed by Mitsubishi Electric in the last 100 years since its foundation, which aims to support our partners' development of new products/services.
With "multiplier effects" between Mitsubishi Electric and its partners, we hope to create new values and businesses, as well as contributing to solving diversifying social issues.

Experience-based Exhibition

Hygienic operation using a screen that floats in midair !

Hygienic Touch Operable Aerial Display

Mitsubishi Electric has developed Hygienic Touch Operable Aerial Display as a new type of touch panel monitor that combines aerial display and spatial touch technologies.
By allowing hygienic operation of touchscreens such as in public facilities, medical institutions, and ofces that are used by a large number of people, Mitsubishi Electric’s Hygienic Touch Operable Aerial Display delivers a solution to the physical contact issue in today’s New Normal society.

Operation of futuristic aerial images ensures hygiene

1. The display oats in midair, unlike any conventional display

Images appear in midair without the use of any special effects such as glasses or mist.

2. A spatial touch sensor allows intuitive operation of aerial images

Images that appear in midair can be intuitively touch-operated, because a spatial touch sensor detects the spatial position of users’ ngertips.

3. Users can operate the control panel without contaminating their hands

Aerial images that oat in midair can be operated without contact, ensuring hygiene.
Up to now, users had to wash their hands each time they operated a control panel, but handwashing is no longer necessary, as no harmful substances can be spread via the aerial panel.

Check-in at hotels

Check-in at airports

Hospital reception terminals

Apartment intercoms

Mitsubishi Electric’s Hygienic Touch Operable Aerial Display dispels discontent and worries with touchless panel operation.

Venue
3F
Period
Apr 1, 2023 (Sat.) 〜 Nov 27, 2023 (Mon.)

Limited Edition Offerings from Cafe & Shop during the Event

METoA Cafe & KitchenDuring your visit, please try our special event collaboration dish inspired by the theme, "Sodateru Town"

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ShopWe have prepared goods suiting the theme of the current event.

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Exhibitions in the past

Can Clean Energy Be Shared?!
Let the Town Shine Together

Sep 29, 2022 (Thu.) 〜 Jan 17, 2023 (Tue.)

Making Invisible Wind Visible!
Expanding Possibilities for the Future!

Jun 23, 2022 (Thu.) 〜 Sep 4, 2022 (Sun.)

Potential and Future of Alter Ego Robots –
How Our Way of Life Could Change

Mar 17, 2022 (Thu.) 〜 Jun 14, 2022 (Tue.)