Smartify vs Hyper Edohaku

Be inspired every day with art you’ll love. Smartify is the ultimate cultural travel app: find places to visit near you and get audio tours to help guide your way. What you’ll love about Smartify: - Hundreds of museums, art galleries, historic places and more, all in one app - Audio tours, guides and videos: learn about art and hear amazing stories - Scan paintings, sculptures and objects to reveal what you’re looking at - Plan your visit: book tickets, get maps and never miss a must-see exhibition - Build your personal collection and get ideas for what to see next - Shop art gifts, books and prints from museum shops around the world - Support museums! Every in-app purchase helps cultural venues care for and share their collections. *About us* Smartify is a social enterprise. Our mission is to connect audiences worldwide with incredible art collections through innovative technology and storytelling. We believe nothing beats the physical experience of visiting a museum and want to make it easy to discover, remember and share art. If you’re inspired by our work, get in touch: info@smartify.org. Please note that we partner with museums to protect artist copyright and we’re not able to identify every artwork. *Permissions notice* Location: used to recommend cultural sites and events based on your current location Camera: used to recognise artworks and provide related information about them

The Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum’s smartphone app is finally here. What creativities and delights did the lives of Edo’s townspeople have? Journey into the hustle and bustle of Edo and discover originalities that can lead to insights for the present-day! - Find Them: One hundred from the Edo-Tokyo Museum Collection Ryōgoku-Hirokōji is Edo’s entertainment district, which the app has had recreated in 3D based on the Edo-Tokyo Museum’s model of the area to the west of Ryōgokubashi Bridge. This augmented rendition includes the Ryōgokubashi Bridge in the summer, squares on both ends of the Bridge, and the Sumida River. Scattered among this 3D rendering, overflowing with diverse people and commodities, are one hundred items selected from the Edo-Tokyo Museum’s collection for you to find. - The Four Areas: From the nagaya to Ryōgokubashi Bridge, and to Ekōin Temple and the Sumida River Your journey as an Edo teenager begins in a busy morning in the nagaya. Stroll through to collect the area-themed items to open doors into the following areas, where, finally, you will enjoy a cool evening on a riverboat on the final Sumida River area. - The Sumida River Opening Thriving with Events The Ryōgokubashi Bridge carries many of Edo’s townspeople back-and-forth their destinations where countless incidents and events happen on the daily: performances of freak/animal shows (misemono), fires, and even street fights. The firework display at Sumida River and the sumo wrestling at Ekōin Temple are also two out of many of these events unique to Edo, items of which you can find and collect. Throughout your discovery, you might also encounter famous figures such as Katsushika Hokusai and Gennai Hiraga.