At Ginza Sony Park in Tokyo, the exhibition 100.80.60. Exhibition will be held from April 24 to May 31, 2026, tracing three overlapping timelines: 100 years of Ginza, 80 years of Sony, and 60 years of the Sony Building.

Rather than presenting a chronological archive, the exhibition reframes these histories through text—bringing together city, corporation, and architecture as layered narratives shaped by eleven contemporary writers and artists.

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Ginza as a City in Flux

Ginza has long stood as one of Tokyo’s most emblematic districts—a place where shifts in mood often precede visible trends.

In this exhibition, its past century is divided into decades and reinterpreted through thematic “moods,” such as “Ginza and Modernity,” “Ginza and Radiance,” and “Ginza and Transformation.”

Time is approached not as a sequence of events, but as an atmosphere—something sensed rather than recorded.

Reading the City Through Eleven Voices

At the core of the exhibition are newly commissioned texts by eleven writers and artists, each responding to a specific decade of Ginza.

Participants include comedian Hiccorohee; tanka poet Hiroshi Homura; writer Awa Ito; fashion designer Akira Minagawa, founder of minä perhonen; model and writer Miyu Otani; writer and cultural figure Seiko Ito; novelist Hitomi Kanehara; writer and comedian Naoki Matayoshi; tanka poet Machi Tawara; photographer Kotori Kawashima; and singer-songwriter and poet Satoko Shibata.

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Spanning literature, photography, music, and fashion, these contributors bring distinct perspectives to a shared subject: Ginza.

Their works—ranging from essays and poetry to short fiction—are presented as spatial installations. Visitors move through the exhibition as if reading the city itself, encountering multiple interpretations that coexist rather than converge.

In this sense, Ginza emerges not as a single narrative, but as an anthology—shaped by the plurality of those who observe it.

Sony and the Layering of Time

Interwoven with Ginza’s 100-year history are two additional timelines: Sony’s 80-year history and the 60-year legacy of the Sony Building.

On the basement level, part of the publication Document of Ginza Sony Park Project—which records the decision-making process behind the rebuilding of the Sony Building and the realization of Ginza Sony Park—will be previewed ahead of its official release.

The book will be available for pre-order at the venue, alongside a special commemorative model, “Ginza Sony Park 1/300 built with LEGO® bricks,” created by LEGO® Certified Professional Junpei Mitsui.

In addition, a pop-up exhibition titled “80. Stories of You and Sony,” organized by Sony Group’s Creative Center to mark the company’s 80th anniversary, will be presented in the Blue Tile Gallery connecting the basement levels.

Here, corporate history is positioned not as background, but as an active cultural layer within the city.

Designing “Ma” — The Space of Possibility

Ginza Sony Park is conceived as “a park within the city.”

Rather than prescribing fixed functions, it is designed with intentional “ma”—a Japanese concept referring to space or interval—allowing visitors to engage freely and generate their own experiences.

This philosophy inherits the Sony Building’s original concept of being “open to the city,” while reinterpreting it for a contemporary urban context.

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The building itself—comprising five floors above ground and four below—is deliberately lower in height than surrounding structures, creating spatial rhythm within Ginza. A vertical promenade connects street level to the underground, forming a continuous, three-dimensional relationship with the city.

A Promenade Through Time

The exhibition does not present history as a linear narrative.

Instead, it unfolds as a promenade, where different decades and atmospheres gradually connect. Visitors move through overlapping temporal layers, experiencing history as something spatial and continuous.

To walk through the exhibition is to reflect not only on what Ginza has been, but also on what it might become.

Holding both change and continuity at once, Ginza remains a place in motion.