The final event to express gratitude to the fans will be held from April 18th to August 4th.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will close the Mitsubishi Electric Event Square "METoA Ginza" (located in Tokyu Plaza Ginza, Ginza, Tokyo), which it has operated as a facility where customers can experience the latest technologies and services of its group companies, on its final business day on August 4. The attached cafe restaurant "METoA Cafe & Kitchen" will also close on the same day.
METoA Ginza was opened in March 2016 with the concept of " Mitsubishi Electric Touch of Advancement," from which the name is derived, as a place where visitors can have fun learning about our group's products, technologies and various corporate activities by "seeing," "touching," and "experiencing." As of March 10, 2025, a total of approximately 6,095,658 people have visited the facility from both Japan and overseas.
Before the facility closes, and to show our gratitude for all that has been done, we will be holding the final event, "Rediscover and discover new things in the everyday. Is it obvious!?" exhibition, from April 18th to August 4th. This will allow visitors to experience our group's technologies that support the "obvious" things in our daily lives and learn about our sustainability efforts. This event will introduce hands-on content from past exhibits, including technologies that have become indispensable in our daily lives and experiences that may lead to life in the future.
To express our gratitude, we will be holding the final event, "Rediscover and discover new things in the 'ordinary' of everyday life. Is it normal!?" (Date: April 18th – August 4th)
■ Future developments
Our company positions the realization of sustainability as the foundation of our management and is working to solve social issues through our business. In order to promote efforts to commercialize products and services that provide greater user satisfaction from the perspectives of sustainability and solving social issues, METoA Ginza has held exhibitions and events themed on ideas in the development stage and future lifestyles.
Going forward, in order to connect with a wider range of users, we will expand our "co-creation space" with stakeholders nationwide. While inheriting the concepts and initiatives of "METoA Ginza," we will collaborate with a variety of companies and organizations to hold experiential events across the country where people can enjoy learning about the wide range of initiatives both inside and outside our group that are working to realize a sustainable future.
"METoA Ginza" exterior
■The history of Mitsubishi Electric Event Square "METoA Ginza"
Historical period and major events
March 2016: Opened "METoA Ginza" as a place where people can learn about our group's activities while having fun "seeing," "touching," and "experiencing."
March to July 2016 [Event] Flowers for Ginza (a fusion of flower art and video technology)
July to September 2016 [Event] Space in Ginza (Expressing the beauty of space through video and other media)
September 2016 – February 2017 [Event] Robotics Art in Ginza (artworks and videos with industrial robot motifs)
February to June 2017 [Event] Re-Birth in Ginza (Recycling home appliances through art)
June to October 2017 [Event] Feel the Communication in Ginza (an event to experience advanced communication technology)
October 2017 – February 2018 [Event] Wind Lab in Ginza (an event where you can experience wind technology such as room air conditioners and duct fans)
March to June 2018 [Event] Smooth Access City (Experience the city infrastructure of the future)
July to September 2018 [Event] Space Challenge in Ginza (Experience the technology of artificial satellites and large telescopes through video and VR)
October to December 2018 [Event] Water Journey in Ginza (an event to learn about the water cycle)
December 2018 – March 2019 [Event] The Commonplace "Behind the Scenes" Exhibition (An event where you can experience technologies that you don't normally see, such as those used in smartphones and large-scale video equipment)
March to July 2019 [Event] Energy-Sharing City (an event to learn about energy management for the realization of a low-carbon society)
As of April 2019, the cumulative number of visitors reached 3 million.
July to November 2019 [Event] Great Adventure on Electric Island (an event to learn about electricity supply)
The event achieved a record high average number of visitors per day of 3,675.
November 2019 – March 2020 [Event] Digital Harvest Festival in Ginza (an event to experience our technology that supports food production, manufacturing, processing, and freshness maintenance)
March 2020 – January 2021 [Event] Wally and "A City That Cares About People" (Experience video analysis technology and technology that helps maintain infrastructure)
January to June 2021 [Event] HOPE FOR UNIVERSE (An event where you can learn about the stories of the developers of space station resupply vehicles, lighting, etc.)
July to November 2021 [Event] IRO×IRO STADIUM (an event to learn about symbiotic society through sports)
December 2021 – March 2022 [Event] Miraif Dome (Experience life in the future through exhibits born from thoughts and ideas for the future)
February 2022: The facility will be redesigned to be a place for co-creation with stakeholders.
March to June 2022 [Event] Sodateru Town vol.1: Changing the way we live, the possibilities and future of avatar robots (an event where you can experience the future with remote-controlled robots)
June to September 2022 [Event] Sodateru Town vol.2 The invisible wind is visible! The future unfolds! (An event to feel the future possibilities with "wind visualization" technology)
September 2022 – January 2023 [Event] Sodateru Town vol.3 Can we share clean energy? Let's make the town shine together (an event where you can experience a future where problems are solved by an area energy management system)
January to November 2023 [Event] Sodateru Town Vol. 4 Recycle DISCO (Experience cutting-edge plastic recycling technology while dancing to disco music)
December 2023 – April 2025 [Event] Manga x AI Exhibition (an event where you can learn about the future and ethics of living with AI through manga and interactive games)
September to November 2024 [Event] Tangerine picking in Ginza (METoA Ginza will be connected to a venue in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture via a line to experience remote control of a robot)
December 2024 [On-site event] Mitsubishi Electric Event Square METoA Ginza presents Christmas Factory in PLAT UMEKITA (The first on-site exhibition, where visitors can experience robots and sensor technology at PLAT UMEKITA in Osaka)
Achieve a cumulative total of 6 million visitors by January 2025
April to August 2025 [Event] Rediscover and rediscover the "ordinary" of everyday life. Is it normal? Exhibition <Planned>
■ Overview of the "Rediscover and discover new things in the 'ordinary' of everyday life. Is it ordinary!?" Exhibition
We will introduce Mitsubishi Electric's "not so obvious" technologies that have supported our lives and society through people's empathy and awareness of the "ordinary" things in everyday life from popular content that has been exhibited at "METoA Ginza" so far. This event (free admission) allows you to experience technologies used in products familiar to our lives from a wide range of business fields, from home appliances to space, and technologies that may lead to the "ordinary" things of the future, and allows you to experience the sustainability efforts that we aim to achieve through our group's products and solutions.
■ Overview of "METoA Ginza"
name
METoA Ginza
Location: Tokyu Plaza Ginza, 2-1 Ginza 5-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Official website
https://metoa.jp
Opening times
11:00～19:00
* Free admission (1st floor cafe restaurant only: 8:30-23:00)
Opening Day
March 31, 2016
Total number of visitors: 6,095,658 (as of March 10, 2025)
Closing date
August 4, 2025
Number of exhibits to date: Over 80 products, technologies and services have been exhibited since the opening
■ "METoA Ginza" Map
■Trademark-related
| "METoA" | Registered trademark of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation |
■About the Mitsubishi Electric Group
We at the Mitsubishi Electric Group contribute to the realization of a vibrant and comfortable society through relentless technological innovation and limitless creativity. We will accelerate our "trade-on" activities, which develop our business while enriching society and the environment, to achieve sustainability. In addition, we will promote "circular digital engineering" that creates new value and contributes to solving social issues by utilizing our digital platform "Serendie®" to aggregate and analyze data obtained from customers in the digital space, and by strongly connecting and sharing wisdom within the group. Since its founding in 1921, we have a history of over 100 years and are engaged in businesses such as social systems, power systems, defense and space systems, factory automation systems, automotive equipment, building systems, air conditioning and home appliances, information systems and services, and semiconductors and devices. With more than 200 group companies and approximately 150,000 employees worldwide, our consolidated sales for fiscal year 2023 were 5,257.9 billion yen. For more information, please visit www.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp .
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