PRESS RELEASE 2025.05.26 Sponsorship of Hibiya Music Festival 2025

Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development sponsors festival as a component of its event business in the entertainment domain

Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development, Inc. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Kenji Morita) will provide sponsorship for the Hibiya Music Festival 2025 event scheduled for Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, 2025 at Hibiya Park. A free music event open to all, Hibiya Music Festival has been held primarily in Hibiya Park since 2019, with music producer Seiji Kameda as a member of the Executive Committee. This year's event marks the first at which Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development will serve as a sponsor.

Hibiya Music Festival 2025

  • Scene from Hibiya Music Festival 2024 ©︎Hibiya Music Festival Executive Committee

  • Scene from Hibiya Music Festival 2024 ©︎Hibiya Music Festival Executive Committee

Background to the sponsorship

In its real estate development in the retail and entertainment domains, Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development engages in the development of urban retail facilities and Neighborhood Shopping Centers (NSCs) as well as urban development projects centered on large arenas. Under the concept of "A space that creates harbor activity and culture," the company's subsidiary Yokohama Akarenga Inc. engages in planning and operation for event projects that evoke culture representative of Yokohama, centered on the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse.

Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development recently made the decision to sponsor Hibiya Music Festival 2025 as a component of its active involvement with the event business in the entertainment domain with the aim of enhancing the community and the area of Hibiya, the location of the company's main office.

About Hibiya Music Festival 2025

Hibiya Music Festival takes place under the concept of "a borderless music festival free to one and all, creating new cycles of music." With Hibiya Park as its main venue and musician and music producer Seiji Kameda as the chair of its Executive Committee, this borderless event offers free concerts and workshops that are open to all regardless of generation, handicaps, economic disparities, and musical genre. It creates opportunities for the children who are our future to experience the wonder of music.

Event dates 10:30 to 20:30 (approx. times) on Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, 2025
Venue Hibiya Park (Location: Hibiya Park, Chiyoda-ku)
(Tokyo Midtown Hibiya and other locations will serve as satellite venues.)
Organizer Hibiya Music Festival Executive Committee
Website https://hibiyamusicfes.jp/2025/
About Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development

Taking "To nurture the future of urban spaces through our power to imagine and realize change" as its stated Purpose, Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development, Inc. engages in real estate and urban development unbound by convention, primarily in the industrial, retail, and entertainment domains. In the industrial domain, the company works in the area of dry logistics warehouses as well as the development of automated and other refrigerated and frozen warehouses, life sciences R&D facilities, and shared manufacturing/R&D facilities under the innoba brand. In the retail and entertainment domains, the company engages in the development of urban retail facilities, Neighborhood Shopping Centers (NSCs), and hotels, as well as arena development and event projects at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse and other sites. The company also undertakes large-scale urban development centered on arenas and other features.

Fully leveraging the comprehensive strengths of the Mitsubishi Corporation Group, which interfaces with a vast range of industries and customers in Japan and overseas, Mitsubishi Corporation Urban Development will nurture a prosperous future for cities together with customers and partners.