Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT, Location: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, President: Tatsushi Morokuma)［１］ has started the operation of smartphone app “Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)” today. The app lets you enjoy visiting the appealing spots in Shinagawa City such as the Hundred Views in Shinagawa［２］ that started operation by Shinagawa City on the same day.
“Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)” is a tourist information service with full of functions that add to the enjoyable visit to the spots of Shinagawa. It has many functions;-
- allowing users to learn the details of “the Hundred Views in Shinagawa” by turning their smartphone cameras to towns or placing them over the booklets,
- tour courses that take you to the spots related to TV dramas and movies,
- a stamp rally that takes you to the Hundred Views in Shinagawa and Seven Dieties of Fortune,
- picture frames that let you have your photos taken with animation characters such as lovely Cinnamoroll, etc.
We hope you can appreciate Shinagawa deeply during your fun walk by using the service.
The features of “Wa! Shinagawa Tourist Spots (kokosil Shinagawa)”
Augmented Reality (AR) camera (GPS）
By turning your smartphone camera to the view in the town, appealing spots such as the cultural assets registered in the Hundred Views of Shinagawa, etc. will be displayed. You can see the details on the spot by touching the pin on the screen.
AR camera （image recognition）
By turning your smartphone camera to the photos of the spot in the booklets such as the brochure of the Hundred Views in Shinagawa, the information on the spot is provided. You can receive a picture frame by turning the camera to the logo of “Wa! ShinagawaTourist Spots.”
Tour courses
Twelve tour courses are available. There are courses with themes for
- history and arts,
- visit to spots where famous TV dramas and movies were filmed,
- visit to beautifule waterfront, etc.
You can find new attractive sides of Shinagawa through the tours.
Picture frame library
You can have your photos taken with the picture frames obtained via visiting the Hundred Views of Shinagawa, visiting Seven Deities of Fortune, etc. Your photos taken with Cinnamoroll, a lovely character and Shinagawa tourism ambassador, can be stored in your smartphone, and can be shared via SNS.
Visiting the Hundred Views in Shinagawa
A stamp rally lets you obtain stamps by visiting the Hundred Views of Shinagawa. You can obtain picture frames such as Cinnamoroll, etc. by collecting specified number of stamps.
Visiting Seven Dieties of Fortune (in Shinto shrines, Buddhism temples, etc.)
A stamp rally in which you can obtain stamps by visiting the Seven Deities of Fortune along Tokaido and Seven Deities of Fortune in Ebara. If you collect all the seven stamps for a stamp book (御朱印帳, Goshuincho) for each course, you receive a nice picture frame.
Overview
Start date
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Fee
Free of charge (The service is available by installing “kokosil” app.)
kokosil
kokosil［３］ is a platform service which provides the information via smartphone apps and/or websites on tourist spots, towns, commercial facilities, museums, art museums, etc. which are collectively described as “town” (region).
Services are built for and operated by each town (region) so that this service can help the region to provide detailed information special to it ( e.g., tourist spot, town, or museum).
Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation has been promoting the adoption and deployment of kokosil platform so that it can provide information such as tourist information of each region. “kokosil” smartphone app can be used in the regions, museums, etc. where the service is operated by using kokosil platform. Users can download “kokosil” app and select the services of each region and facility on the region selection screen (kokosil select).
- Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation (UCT)
https://www.uctec.com/en/
UCT offers “kokosil” that provides information on tourist spots and towns, and solutions for the IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M fields applying ubiquitous computing technology.
We also provide various technologies and services applicable to basic embedded systems to system integration and content creation.
- The Hundred Views of Shinagawa
For selecting the spots, the aspects of “lifestyle,” “history” and “climate” of “Our Town Shinagawa” were nominated by the citizens of Shinagawa, and the popular ones were adopted by vote in 1987. In the same year, the 40th anniversary of the municipal government and the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the citizen charter were commemorated. In 2017, 30 years after the original selection, “The Hundred Views of Shinagawa” were updated by adding the sceneries that appeared in the last 30 years.
For details, please visit the website of Shinagawa City. https://www.city.shinagawa.tokyo.jp/hyakkei/
- kokosil
“kokosil®” is the registered trademark of UCT.
kokosil portal site： https://kokosil.net/index.en.html
“kokosil” smartphone app can be downloaded at the followings;
Android版： https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uctec.ucdroid&hl=en
iOS版： https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/kokoshiru/id558488145?mt=8
Contact
- Koji Minegishi and Atsushi Nakamura, Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation
Tel: +81-3-5437-2323
E-mail： press@uctec.com