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For the renewal of POLA GINZA, Keiichiro Shibuya served as the music and sound producer. His sound installation work “Abstract Music” has been permanently installed, while Kazuyo Sejima was responsible for the spatial design.
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For the renewal of POLA GINZA, Keiichiro Shibuya served as the music and sound producer. His sound installation work “Abstract Music” has been permanently installed, while Kazuyo Sejima was responsible for the spatial design.
For the renewal of the global flagship POLA GINZA, which reopened on Friday, December 12, 2025, Keiichiro Shibuya served as the music and sound producer and permanently installed his sound installation work “Abstract Music”.
POLA GINZA has been reborn as a one-of-a-kind experiential space that liberates the senses and offers the deepest expression of POLA’s philosophy and future vision. The space is the result of a unique collaboration among world-renowned creators: composer Keiichiro Shibuya, architect Kazuyo Sejima, lighting designer Shozo Toyohisa, and olfactory artist Kan Izumi.
Comment from Keiichiro Shibuya
“A once-in-a-lifetime experience created by infinitely evolving music”
My sound installation Abstract Music is a work that generates endlessly evolving music through a program that continuously combines, processes, and transforms a vast archive of my sound data in real time.
Sound moves freely through the space like clouds, wind, or membranes, constantly changing its form.
In addition, AI-generated readings continuously pose answers to questions such as “What is beauty?” on the first floor, and “How can one become beautiful?” in the basement salon, addressing visitors as if in conversation every 30 seconds to three minutes. A total of 46 speakers—26 on the first floor and 20 in the basement salon—are installed throughout the space, creating an immersive sound environment that expands infinitely.
If these “once-in-a-lifetime” sounds, existing only in that very moment, can stimulate the sensibilities and intellect of visitors and lead to an expansion of new aesthetic awareness, then the work has fulfilled its purpose.
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Opening Date: Friday, December 12, 2025
Business Hours: 10:00–20:00
Address: 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
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6-minute walk from Exit A9, Ginza Station (Tokyo Metro Ginza, Marunouchi, and Hibiya Lines)
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Direct access from Exit 7, Ginza-itchome Station (Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line)
- 5-minute walk from the Kyobashi Exit of JR Yurakucho Station
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