GROUP PROGRAM

This group program explores Tokyo's cutting-edge technology and innovation. Witness firsthand the city's role as a global tech hub, from robotics and Virtual Reality advancements to interactive digital art and future-forward urban design.

The program includes visits to tech companies, training and research institutes, and innovative startups. You will have the chance to engage with industry experts, and experience the technologies shaping tomorrow. Whether you are a group of engineering, IT students, or simply fascinated by the future, this program offers an insider's look at Tokyo's dynamic innovation ecosystem.

To create a customized group program, please provide us with your specific interests, trip duration, proposed travel dates, approximate group size, and the skill level of participants.

Science, Engineering, IT, Entrepreneurship

Location:

Tokyo, Japan

Duration (in days):

1-5

• Visit to Shibaura Institute of Technology, specialising in robotics and lecture about technological innovation at the Shibaura Institute of Technology, specialising in robotics. Visit student clubs and projects.

• Visit a gaming design studio in Shibuya. They consult brands in the use of games and play as a powerful way to communicate, design the games, often using emerging platforms, program prototypes, and then often work with larger studios for the final implementation of the games. Talk with game designers and learn about their work. 

• Meet a company specialising in the development of XR (Extended Reality) contents, including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), particularly for the Metaverse; Mixed Reality (MR), and everything in between. Learn about the company and recent trends in how these technologies are used in Communication Design.

• Visit of and talk with young entrepreneurs at a startup hub

• Visit to Earthquake Learning Centre Ariake, Kawasaki Robostage, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, seeing Odaiba Modern Architecture; TeNQ Space Museum, Tokyo Skytree; National Museum of Nature and Science, Gas Science Center, Nitrogen Museum, TeamLab Borderless media art museum

• Akihabara Electric Town afternoon guided tour with a maid through electronics and gaming-related, manga/anime, collectibles and cosplay-related shops in Akihabara including Super Potato, which has a collection of retro computer games from the 70s to 90s

• Cultural activities at the World Unite! City Hub: Kimono makeup and dressing experience, Chirimen Craft Workshop, Shibori Dyeing, Kintsugi, Calligraphy, Onigiri Making Workshop and others

• Language exchange (English-Japanese) with Japanese youth at the World Unite! City Hub

• Tour through the Tokyo bayside Landfill, learning about how Tokyo deals with the massive amount of waste (duration 2 hours, including the Central Breakwater Landfill Site and Waste Treatment Facility + Explanation at the Environment Bureau Central Defense Joint Government Building)

• Sega Joypolis, a virtual reality indoor Theme Park

• In Tokyo: Add any other Tokyo activity you can find as part of our other group programs in Tokyo.

Japanologist, Engineer

High School Students, College Students, University Students

10-40 PAX

Throughout the year

Depending on the group size and our booking status, at our share accommodation (4- to 8-share dorm rooms) in Koto-Ku or Warabi; or at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center in Shibuya

Note: accommodation at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center needs to be booked 1 year in advance!

In case of our sharehouses: breakfast and dinner catered at the communal spaces of the sharehouse

In case of the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center: breakfast and dinner at the canteen

By public transport in Tokyo

Haneda or Narita airport

This program can be combined with our other programs in Japan for a custom travel itinerary.

3 nights/4 days program (based on 20-30 students): 69,000 JPY + 10% VAT per person

Included: all program activities; local transport; Japanese-English interpretation; accommodation as described; meals as described; planting of 10 indigenous trees per program participant at Kilimanjaro for the CO2 compensation of long-haul flights

Not included: insurance, personal expenses, lunch

International flight to Tokyo (Narita or Haneda)

A comprehensive risk assessment and emergency management plan is available

That sounds great, but what about my carbon footprint?

Your long-haul flight in economy class emits CO2 into the atmosphere, roughly in the following quantities (according to myclimate.org):