Saitama City Opens Minecraft and 3D Model Booths at AEON Mall Yono
Saitama City held a Minecraft and 3D Experience Event at AEON MALL Yono on September 5, 2026, to draw entrants to the SAITAMA Minecraft AWARD 2026 and explain 3D city models.
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Why it matters
The event turns Saitama City's open 3D city data into playable Minecraft and Fortnite content, a test of whether Project PLATEAU data can pull residents, especially children, into local planning instead of staying a government dataset.
Key Facts
- Saitama City held the Minecraft & 3D Experience Event at AEON MALL Yono on September 5, 2026.
- The event promoted the SAITAMA Minecraft AWARD 2026 and used 3D city model data from the Project PLATEAU program.
- Saitama City released Minecraft world data for the Urawa, Omiya/Saitama Shintoshin, and Iwatsuki areas.
- Minecraft YouTuber Kiokio gave two talk shows and live-building sessions using the city's Minecraft world data.
- The Fortnite game City SPEED TRIAL: SAITAMA SUPER ARENA ran time trials on stages themed on Saitama Shintoshin, Minuma, Omiya bonsai, and Iwatsuki dolls.
Four booths used city data built under the Project PLATEAU program, covering the Urawa, Omiya/Saitama Shintoshin, and Iwatsuki areas. Minecraft YouTuber Kiokio ran two talk and live-building stages.
The city released Minecraft world data for the Urawa, Omiya/Saitama Shintoshin, and Iwatsuki areas, then built the day's booths around it. The main workshop ran 30 minutes: 10 for generating ideas, 20 for building them in the city world.
Other booths put the same data in different forms. The Saitama City Edition PLATEAU VIEW viewer showed building models and a flood inundation assumption area model for Sakura Ward, and the Fortnite game City SPEED TRIAL: SAITAMA SUPER ARENA ran time trials across stages themed on Saitama Shintoshin, Minuma, Omiya bonsai, and Iwatsuki dolls. Forum Engineering supplied a driving simulator with a steering controller.
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