Art by day, stage by night. Flowers change Tokyo for 3 days. Tokyo's Marunouchi becomes a 'festive space of flowers'. TOKYO FLOWER CARPET 2026. Flower art 25th anniversary and Pokemon 30th anniversary special project 'Hana-Iwai (Flower Celebration)' held!
The 'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET 2026' will be held in Marunouchi, Tokyo from April 17-19. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of flower art and 30th of Pokemon, the inclusive event features collaborative flower carpets and recycled materials.
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The Flower Art Culture Association (Representative Director: Yasuhiko Fujikawa) will hold 'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET 2026' on Gyoko-dori in Marunouchi, Tokyo for three days from Friday, April 17 to Sunday, April 19, 2026.
This year marks the milestone 25th anniversary of the history of flower art culture in Japan, as well as the 30th anniversary of the globally loved Pokemon. To celebrate these two anniversaries, this event will be specially held as 'Hana-Iwai' (Flower Celebration), and 10 works (approx. 330 square meters) will be created with 200 citizen participants using discarded 'loss flowers' including 30,000 carnations and chrysanthemums, and about 500 potted Phalaenopsis orchids.
The theme is
'Let's bloom to the future, an art of symbiosis.'
The flower carpet, drawn using individual flower petals, is a 'co-creative' art in which anyone can participate regardless of age, nationality, or the presence or absence of disabilities. Set on Gyoko-dori, citizens, companies, and artists will come together to create a work that symbolizes a society where diverse values harmonize.
In this year's main work, a special Ukiyo-e style Pokemon flower art will appear as a special project commemorating the 25th anniversary of Japanese flower art culture and the 30th anniversary of Pokemon. As a new flower art piece that fuses the expression of Ukiyo-e, a traditional Japanese culture, with the world-popular Pokemon, it will broadcast the charm of Japanese culture domestically and internationally, while delivering a message of festivity and the future.
Furthermore, as the core initiative of this project, we will deploy the inclusive art project 'Bloomix Tokyo', where people with and without disabilities collaborate to create spectacular flower art together.
In this project, a giant flower carpet measuring approximately 6m x 35m will be expressed based on a total of 6 works: 5 drawn by students from special needs schools and 1 created with the participation of visually impaired individuals. By bringing together each person's expression and blooming as one large work, it symbolically depicts the image of a society where diversity harmonizes.
This initiative presents a new form of art where anyone can participate and become an expresser, regardless of differences in standpoints or the presence of disabilities, and is a symbolic project that embodies the event's theme of 'art of symbiosis'.
In addition, we will also create works that use wood chips recycled from fallen trees generated by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake. We will connect the memory of natural disasters to the future and incorporate them into the space as a symbol of regeneration and hope.
The works born from the overlapping thoughts of flowers, trees, and people transcend mere decoration and become a place to experience a 'society living together.'
At 'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET', the flowers used are not discarded but recycled, breathing new life into them as recycled paper called 'Flower Drawing Paper'. Since 2018, this 'Flower Drawing Paper' has been donated to special needs schools in Tokyo to support art education for children with disabilities.
Furthermore, the works drawn on the 'Flower Drawing Paper' are once again expressed as flower art, creating a cycle where they return to paper again, forming a sustainable cycle of creation.
'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET 2026' will be comprehensively supervised by Yasuhiko Fujikawa, flower artist and Representative Director of the association, under the high guidance of Her Imperial Highness Princess Nobuko of Mikasa, who will assume the position of Honorary President of the Flower Art Culture Association from April 1, 2026, and together with many citizen participants, will draw a carpet of flower art on 'Gyoko-dori' in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
This year marks the milestone 25th anniversary of the history of flower art culture in Japan, as well as the 30th anniversary of the globally loved Pokemon. To celebrate these two anniversaries, this event will be specially held as 'Hana-Iwai' (Flower Celebration), and 10 works (approx. 330 square meters) will be created with 200 citizen participants using discarded 'loss flowers' including 30,000 carnations and chrysanthemums, and about 500 potted Phalaenopsis orchids.
The theme is
'Let's bloom to the future, an art of symbiosis.'
The flower carpet, drawn using individual flower petals, is a 'co-creative' art in which anyone can participate regardless of age, nationality, or the presence or absence of disabilities. Set on Gyoko-dori, citizens, companies, and artists will come together to create a work that symbolizes a society where diverse values harmonize.
In this year's main work, a special Ukiyo-e style Pokemon flower art will appear as a special project commemorating the 25th anniversary of Japanese flower art culture and the 30th anniversary of Pokemon. As a new flower art piece that fuses the expression of Ukiyo-e, a traditional Japanese culture, with the world-popular Pokemon, it will broadcast the charm of Japanese culture domestically and internationally, while delivering a message of festivity and the future.
Furthermore, as the core initiative of this project, we will deploy the inclusive art project 'Bloomix Tokyo', where people with and without disabilities collaborate to create spectacular flower art together.
In this project, a giant flower carpet measuring approximately 6m x 35m will be expressed based on a total of 6 works: 5 drawn by students from special needs schools and 1 created with the participation of visually impaired individuals. By bringing together each person's expression and blooming as one large work, it symbolically depicts the image of a society where diversity harmonizes.
This initiative presents a new form of art where anyone can participate and become an expresser, regardless of differences in standpoints or the presence of disabilities, and is a symbolic project that embodies the event's theme of 'art of symbiosis'.
In addition, we will also create works that use wood chips recycled from fallen trees generated by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake. We will connect the memory of natural disasters to the future and incorporate them into the space as a symbol of regeneration and hope.
The works born from the overlapping thoughts of flowers, trees, and people transcend mere decoration and become a place to experience a 'society living together.'
At 'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET', the flowers used are not discarded but recycled, breathing new life into them as recycled paper called 'Flower Drawing Paper'. Since 2018, this 'Flower Drawing Paper' has been donated to special needs schools in Tokyo to support art education for children with disabilities.
Furthermore, the works drawn on the 'Flower Drawing Paper' are once again expressed as flower art, creating a cycle where they return to paper again, forming a sustainable cycle of creation.
'TOKYO FLOWER CARPET 2026' will be comprehensively supervised by Yasuhiko Fujikawa, flower artist and Representative Director of the association, under the high guidance of Her Imperial Highness Princess Nobuko of Mikasa, who will assume the position of Honorary President of the Flower Art Culture Association from April 1, 2026, and together with many citizen participants, will draw a carpet of flower art on 'Gyoko-dori' in Marunouchi, Tokyo.