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YOXO FESTIVAL 2026 ~Experience the Future in Yokohama~

Free admission!

DAY1

1.30

[ FRI ]

DAY1

12:00～19:00

DAY2

1.31

[SAT]

DAY2

11:00～19:00

DAY3

2.1

[ SUN ]

DAY3

11:00～17:00

*Some programs require a fee.
*Contents implemented on January 30th
Only a part of the area is available.

About YOXO FESTIVAL

YOXO FESTIVAL is an event hosted by the Yokohama Future Organization, with the theme of "Experience the Future in Yokohama." It brings together a diverse range of innovators and creators from companies, startups, academia, and individuals to exhibit and present cutting-edge technologies and ideas and solutions currently undergoing demonstration testing. Through demonstrations and workshops, you can see, touch, and experience amazing, unique future technologies. Everyone from children to adults can get excited about the future!

Key visual production: Iwasaki Gakuen Educational Corporation

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"Thinking" about the future

Talk event

20 pieces on the theme of "future"
Talk
Sessions and Pitches
Host an event

"Experience" the future

booth

Gadgets, mobility, AI,
Music, food, and everything
90 exhibitions and demos across genres

"Experience" the future

Workshops

Programming, science experiments, etc.
Children can enjoy it too
Lots of workshops.

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List of venues and areas

Venue name

Area name

Landmark Plaza Sakata Seed Garden Square

main stage

Landmark Plaza 1F Festival Square

Technology area
(Yokohama Innovation Area ①)

TECH HUB YOKOHAMA

Seminar area

Queen's Circle

Science Area

Queen Mall

Demonstration experiment and startup area
(Yokohama Innovation Area ②)

Minato Mirai Gallery

Programming and Workshop Area

Minatomirai StationMirai Tube

Space Area

Venue name

Area name

MARK IS Minato Mirai 1F Grand Galleria

Dinosaur Area

grand mall park

Food and Sustainability Area

MM TERRACE

Decarbonization and circular economy areas

Yokohama i-Mark Place

Mobility and Robotics Area

Yokohama Sympho Stage

Sound Technology Area

Yokohama World Porters Event Hall AB

Crafting and Modification Area

Event and Exhibition Information

Venue map

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main stage

Landmark Plaza Sakata Seed Garden Square

Let's talk about the future. Listen to the talks and take home new perspectives.

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A gathering of devilish engineers!!

#Magic modification

#Manufacturing

#エンジニア

#モンスター

"Let's all create a gentler future for Yokohama"
—Future Implementation Project Citizen Co-creation Event—

#Participate with your child

#TheFutureofYokohama

#SDGs

Let's talk about the future of space habitation
~The joy and excitement of space

#spacehabitation

#Mars

#future

#月

One-minute dream presentation "Dream Pitch"

#DreamPitch

#プレゼン

#Next generation education

#Dreams and Challenges

Let's talk about the future of space business from Yokohama
~Space Future City x Design~

#SpaceBusiness

#Space industry

#Innovation

#Spaceport

A gathering of devilish engineers!!

#Magic modification

#Manufacturing

#エンジニア

#モンスター

Anime therapy paves the way for the future of mental well-being

#wellness

# アニメ

#mentalhealth

#漫画

What is life like in space?
A little adventure with Kotetsu-kun★

#universe

#Kanagawa Prefecture

#Kotetsukun

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Technology area
(Yokohama Innovation Area ①)

Landmark Plaza 1F Festival Square

Robots, AI, etc.
Latest Technology
Touch it and experience it.

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Human Mechanism x Intelligent Robot: Experience the Future of Human Assistive Technology

#FutureHumanAssistanceRobots

#Rehabilitation support

#Locomotion and frailty assessment/Fall prevention

#Game experience for children

Demonstration experiment of information provision tools using 3D

#3D

#Crowding

#Providing information

#GIS

OKI Future Experience Plaza - Physical education and programming experience to create the future -

#Ensuring safe and secure physical education classes

#Demonstration experiment underway at elementary and junior high schools in Yokohama

#Let's experience IoT programming!

What is a black phone?

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Seminar area

TECH HUB YOKOHAMA

Join in on a variety of talks on topics like space and the ocean.

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Yokohama Cross-Border Award Mirai Lab

#Everyone in the city solves the city's problems

#Would you like to try a little border crossing today?

#Crossing borders enriches you and your profession

#Tips for having fun at work

Marine Job Introduction Seminar in Ocean City Yokohama

#Marine Job Introduction Seminar

#Sea Cafe Exchange

#DiscoverMarineCareers

#Ocean City Yokohama

Yokohama x Space Exchange Event

#SpaceBusiness

#Space industry

#Innovation

#YokohamaUniverse

A drone show where love begins

#ドローン

#Student work

#Industry-academia collaboration

Let's talk about the future of space technology (Human Design)
~The evolution and beauty of the space industry~

#SpaceBusiness

#Space industry

#Innovation

#HumanDesign

A drone show where love begins

#ドローン

#Student work

#Industry-academia collaboration

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Science Area

Queen's Circle, 1F Queen's Square Yokohama

Future technologies and
Touch the rocket.
There are also science experiments.

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See a real rocket up close!
Exhibition and explanation of hybrid rockets that will revolutionize space transportation

#1 in Japan

#HybridRocket

#You can see the real thing

#Kanagawa University

Student work exhibition and programming class

#robot

#HAVE

#IoT

#Minecraft

Bridge-building experience

#Work experience

#bridge

#workshop

#サイエンス

Mirai Lab☆Let's take a look at the world of engineers!

#BlueCarbon

#STEAMeducation

#ScienceExperiments

#SDGs

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Demonstration experiment and startup area
(Yokohama Innovation Area ②)

Queen's Square Yokohama 2F Queen Mall

Amazing things from startups and academia
Come see the technology.

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Welcome to the World of Memory! Games & Workshops Presented by Kioxia

#semiconductor

#game

#workshop

#メモリ

Yokohama AI Idol "Minato Kurumi"

#Minato Kurumi

#Yokohama AI Idol

#Yokohama City Song

#Music production experience

Minato Mirai Entertainment Economic Zone Visualization Consortium

#flow of people

#consumption

#Demonstration experiment

#DataScience

History of the Yokohama City Song

#Yokohama City Song

#Yokohama History

#YOKOHAMA, a city connected by song

Kanagawa Prefecture's venture and open innovation support center
"SHIN Minato Mirai"

#venture

#Open innovation

#startup

#Co-creation

Kanagawa Prefecture's venture and open innovation support center
"SHIN Minato Mirai"

#venture

#Open innovation

#startup

#Co-creation

(Freeflow) - AI Mobility Assistant

#AI Assistant

#MobilityAssistant

#Mobility

#AIMobility

The world's first robotic toothbrush, "g.eN" - Well-being starts from your mouth

#RobotToothbrush g.eN

#Just put it in your mouth and brush your teeth

#As fast as 1 minute

#Originating from Japan and a world first

Watching the air and protecting the future.

#CO2 sensor

#エレクトロニクス

#semiconductor

#SDGs

Quiz rally and photo booth for "BeauRing," a recycling project for cosmetic containers

#BeauRing

#recycling

#QuizRally

#Photobooth

Wheelchair tennis wheelchair test ride

#ParaSports

#WheelchairTennis

Futuristic gadgets that enrich our lives

#gadgets

#Human Interface

#Computing

The next-generation AI drone "HOVER Air X1 smart" allows even beginners to easily experience professional photography!

#ドローン

#AI camera

#You can take the photo data home with you!

Acrylic, Braille, Footprint

#World's first

#Braille

#Hashigodari

#4 Segment

isolation sphere/cube

#display

#sphere

#gadget

[JASPER] Y-balance test experience

#Balance experience

#Game Feeling

#Portable

Bolt-on electric wheelchair device -TWINHAM-

#wheelchair

#pilot experience

Programming and electronics experience

#エレクトロニクス

#programming

#semiconductor

#HAVE

Exhibition of works by FabLab Kannai members

#Manufacturing space

#FabLab

#3D printer

#Laser cutter

Art Thinking Puzzle HANAGRAM

#Puzzle game experience

#Puzzle art exhibition

#PuzzleBookSales

#フラワーオブライフ

Blood flow measurement session Let's try inhaling high concentration hydrogen!

#Blood flow measurement

#HydrogenExperience

#活性酸素除去

Become your ideal self with "AI Food"!

#Smartphone app

#AIfood

#NEWTRISH

#PersonalDataDrivenHealthcare

PyxOne: A Gantt chart x AI project promotion tool

#HAVE

#ProjectManagement

#Marketer

#Task management

VVVF driving sound experience device
- An exhibition of a device that lets you feel like a train driver with realistic train sounds -

#Electric train

# Experience

#motor

#VVVF

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Programming and Workshop Area

Queen's Square Yokohama 2F Minato Mirai Gallery A

Have fun programming and create your own creations
Let's try moving it.

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For the children who will create the future: Learning from scratch! A hands-on experience with computers

#programming

#Assembly language

#ICT

#OutcallLessons

Minecraft Programming ~Let's make a roller coaster~

#Mine Craft

#programming

#rollercoaster

#metaverse

Explore planets in the solar system with robots! (LEGO® Robot Programming Course)

#LegoEducation

#Exploring planets in the solar system

#robot programming

#Free lunar smartphone VR experience corner available

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Space Area

Minatomirai Station B3 ticket gate outside Mirai Tube

Artificial gravity and
Space elevator,
Look at the exploration equipment
Let's touch it.

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Lunar artificial gravity habitat "Luna Glass"

#spacehabitation

#spacearchitecture

#artificial gravity

#月

Welcome to a journey to unknown exoplanets

#ExoplanetDatabaseEXOKYOTO

#HEXATRACK

#SpaceExpressConcept

#京都大学

Virtual Maker "Luna City"

#SpaceExperience

#Digital experiences such as AR and VR

#Lunar development-themed education

#Take home teaching materials and goods

Exhibition of microsatellites, lunar exploration rovers, and space posts

#Hobby is space development

#microsatellite

#Send everyday items into space

#A word to me, a space lover who has become complicated

Learn about, make, eat and experience space!

#space education

#workshop

#PuzzleSolving

#StrawRocket

Let's create a system for living in space! ECLSS Grand Experiment★

#universe

#ECLSS

#JAXA

Space elevator (research introduction and piloting experience)

#Space elevator

#Programming education

#Robot control

#Latest research introduction

Play and learn! Space Simulation Lab

#Space robots

#pilot experience

#Parent-child collaboration

#Physics simulation

Design the future with Furukawa Electric Group's space technology and your ideas!

#Technology that supports space

#CreateTheFuture

#YOXOFESTIVAL

#Furukawa Electric Group

Exhibition by iSIO Space Student Group & Space Quiz

#Space Quiz

#SpaceKen-kun sticker

#iSIO Space Student Group Member

#Mars Exploration Rover

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Dinosaur Area

MARK IS Minato Mirai 1F Grand Galleria

Experience fossil excavation and robot operation,
Experience the joy of discovery

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Treasure Hunter Fossil Excavation Experience

#恐竜

#化石

#scientist

#Fossil Excavation

Make a snow globe

#Ocean

#ユニコーン

#スノードーム

#workshop

Line tracing robot

#科学

#robot

# experiment

#Robotics

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Food and Sustainability Area

Grand Mall Park (in front of Yokohama Museum of Art)

Experience self-driving buses, smart agriculture, and food
Let's have fun.

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A camper for dog lovers
"SAny.VAN"

#キャンピングカー

#Pet

#dog

#Ride experience

Invented by a university student!
Tasting event for new specialty products containing Yokohama-born lactic acid bacteria "Lacris"

#腸活

#乳酸菌

#Yokohama Specialty

Agricultural experiences that can be enjoyed by both adults and children

#For children and adults

#workshop

#Let's all experience the charm of agriculture

#Yuzu Village

Peatix Marche - A new lifestyle born from "Encounters x Experiences x Mobility"

#"Encounters" and "Experiences"

#Lifestyle suggestions

#Mobility

#Urban Co-creation Marche

Off-grid mobile house (off-grid field)

#offgrid

#ServiceMobileUnit

#Co-creation Marche

LEALIAN

#battery

#SharingModel

#Denka Network

FM Yokohama booth

#FM Yokohama

#FM Yokohama 40th Anniversary

#AutonomousBus

#Mobile radio studio

Yokohama Street Performance Show 1

#Various

#Sense of reality

#Participatory

#Extraordinary

Yokohama Street Performance Show 2

#Various

#Sense of reality

#Participatory

#Extraordinary

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Decarbonization and circular economy areas

MM Terrace 1F

SDGs and environmental issues
Enjoying the initiative
Let's learn.

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Experience AGC's amazing materials!

#New material

#Crafting experience

#bathbomb

#AGC

Learn about astronauts! Mission Challenge

What it takes to become an astronaut

# experiment

#RocketWork

#Manufacturing

Yay MM with Minato Mirai's ART, environment, and MUSIC♪YMM!

#YokohamaMinatoMirai21

#Minato Mirai Area Management

#Environment, Music, Art & Museum

#YMMY ...

Let's dream of the future! Career discovery workshop for parents and children

#Discovering dreams together as a family

#CareerExplorationWorkshop

#IKIGAI

#HAVE

Let's all try to create a green society in Minato Mirai!
~Yokohama City's Decarbonization and Circular Project~

#Decarbonization leading region

#SAF

#Circular economy

#BottletoBottle

SDGs Experience Program: Soap-making class and "Original Soap Making - Kneading Soap"
& Yokohama City SDGs Certification System "Y-SDGs"　　

#SDGs

#workshop

#Soap properties experiment

#KneadKneadSoap

Learn eco-friendly driving! Enjoy eco-driving through a real-life experience

#eco Drive

#Improve fuel efficiency

#Global warming countermeasures

#Drive experience

\GREEN×EXPO2027 Co-creation Experience/
Participate in building the city of the future! [No reservations required]

#Make GREEN×EXPO2027 your own

#Youth Executive Committee

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Mobility and Robotics Area

Yokohama i-Mark Place 1F

Experience car-type robots, humanoids, and mini trains.

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Driver monitoring system experience

#HAVE

#DataAnalysis

#Information science

Initiatives at Mazda's Tokyo Metropolitan Area R&D Center:
CO2 recovery / coating corrosion resistance evaluation / analysis of factors affecting employee happiness, etc.

#The more you run

#Coating corrosion resistance evaluation

#Well-being

#Co-creation

Let's try programming a robot car!

#programming

#Car

#Mobility

#マツダ

Future EV mobility and autonomous driving experience

#Specific small size

#self-driving

#Mobility

#テクノロジー

Mobility Hub Station

#AtYokohama

#MobilityHub

#MobilityHubStation

#Improved mobility

Small train ride experience

#small train

#MiniTrain

#5 inch gauge

#Mini-Ride-On Train

Humanoid robot reception and companion robot

#Humanoid robot

#companion

#Dancing Girl

#Natural Language Conversation

Take a wonderful ride around Minato Mirai on an electric mobility vehicle that doesn't require a license!

#License-free electric bike

#Wonderride through Minato Mirai!

#Smoothly go up hills without pedaling

#Let's go on an adventure!

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Sound Technology Area
* Held only on January 30th and February 1st

Yokohama Sympho Stage

Experience the cutting edge of sound
The latest instruments and performance science
Let's experience it.

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Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama

#Technology x Sensibility

#Sound and Music

#HAVE

# Experience

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・You'll be surprised by the difference in wood

#木材

#音

#touch

#Experience Demo

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
- A single-point microphone that captures the entire acoustic presence of the venue

#Sound (VR/AR/XR, etc.)

#Stereophonic playback

#RecordingExperience

#ViReal

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・Music scores can be created using AI

#AI arrangement

#Fully automatic from sound source

#30 seconds to sheet music

#Difficulty can be adjusted

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・Can't play the guitar? Don't worry!

#musical instrument

#ギター

#music

#Performance experience

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・Even if you can't play an instrument, it's OK! Try jamming with the characters.

#Character and session

#AI ensemble technology

#Experience it now

#Easy to use

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・A "6-minute" music workshop using wooden musical instruments

#RapidPrototype

#ボトムアップ

#Instrument Tree

#RecordingExperience

Yamaha Tech Showcase in Yokohama
・A virtual live experience that makes you feel like you're actually there

#VR

#Virtual 3D sound

#VirtualLive

#Experience Demo

ASTRO DREAM FESTIVAL 2026

#universe

#Industry-academia collaboration

#Business collaboration

Everyone try to decarbonize! Minato Mirai Circular Economy Conference 2026

#Circular economy

#Learn the latest examples of the circular economy

#Circular city development

#Get hints for transitioning to a circular city

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Crafting and Modification Area

Yokohama World Porters 6F Event Hall

Coloring books and crafts,
With a modified machine
Enjoy making things.

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``Mobidoku'' and car coloring book. Let's think about the future of automobile maintenance!

#Coloring

#for kids

#For parents and children

#car

Made from marine litter and microplastics
Kaleidoscope fantasy art

#microplastics

#kaleidoscope

#Parent-child participation

#SDGs

Mount Fuji SDGs Promotion Partner System

#Fujinomiya City

#Mount Fuji

#MountFujiSDGs

#Migration and Settlement

Create the future with stained glass!

#workshop

#ステンドグラス

#universe

#FujiyamaCrafters

Workshop on making fire starters using leftover candle wicks

#Tokai Wax

#workshop

#SDGs

#FujiyamaCrafters

Pyrography Workshop: Making your own original coaster

#クラフト

#workshop

#SunsetSunset

#FujiyamaCrafters

Outdoor items made by cutting

#Outdoor items

#metal processing

#machined

#FujiyamaCrafters

Experience crafting! Original LED lanterns, wooden rubber band guns, and more

#workshop

#A fun crafting experience for parents and children

#Lanterns and rubber band guns

#KawasakimachiFactory

Magical modification MONSTERS

#Magic modification

#Manufacturing

#Kids & Family

#エンジニア

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Satellite Area

Other

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Make a badge using "pellets" made from clear files

#ExperienceCircularEconomy

#Create your own original badge

#Enjoyable for both children and adults

#Digital manufacturing experience

You don't usually see this!
Sneak into the Minato Mirai factories that support the city!

#エネルギー

#Factory tour

#Experience-based experiments

#For elementary school students (3rd grade and above)

Yokohama Public Art Hunt @YOXO FESTIVAL 2026
(There will also be an awards ceremony on the special stage at Grand Mall Park!)

#PublicArt

#ArtDiscovery

#YOXOFESTIVAL Official Event

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Past events

YOXO FESTIVAL is an urban festival centered on innovation, inheriting the DNA of the Yokohama Gadget Festival*, and was launched in 2022 by the Yokohama Future Innovation Agency and the Yokohama City Economic Bureau. 2026 will be the fourth time the festival is held.

[※] Yokohama Gadget Festival: A hands-on event started by volunteer engineers in the Yokohama area, where visitors can see and touch handmade gadgets and newly developed products and hear from the developers. Co-hosted by companies in the Minato Mirai area and the Yokohama City Economic Bureau, it was held from 2015 to 2019.