Narita Airport’s first art competition, “NARITA ART RUNWAY,” will hold an exhibition of works from the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention Award winners starting Wednesday, October 1st.

Narita Airport’s first art competition, “NARITA ART RUNWAY,” will host an exhibition of grand prize and honorable mention works starting Wednesday, October 1st. ​ Image
URL: HYTEK Inc. Press release: October 2, 2025 The exhibition of Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners of “NARITA ART RUNWAY,” Narita Airport’s first art competition, will begin on Wednesday, October 1st. Exhibiting four works selected from a total of 179 works
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An exhibition of selected works from “NARITA ART RUNWAY 2025,” Narita Airport’s first-ever art competition, produced by HYTEK Corporation (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Directors: Takaya Mitsunaga and Michido Honmaru; hereinafter “HYTEK”), will be held at Narita Airport’s Terminal 2 from Wednesday, October 1st. As part of the airport’s value creation process, Narita Airport will be hosting the “NARITA ART RUNWAY” art competition, which began in May 2025, to encourage young Japanese artists to make their mark on the world stage. The competition invited submissions on the theme of carry-on luggage. This exhibition will feature the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention works selected from a total of 179 entries. 〇 “NARITA ART RUNWAY” Grand Prize / Honorable Mention Work Exhibition Statement Narita Airport has always strived to create a safe, secure, and comfortable airport, while providing customers with a rich travel experience. This time, to make their stay at the airport even more enjoyable, we focused on the “uniqueness of airports.” Airports connect Japan with the world, and are a crossroads between the everyday and the extraordinary. While they serve as diverse “borders,” they also serve as “bridges” that share Japanese traditions, art, and entertainment with the world. It was with this in mind that we decided to hold this exhibition. This exhibition showcases selected works from the art competition “NARITA ART RUNWAY 2025.” Each year, the “NARITA ART RUNWAY” accepts submissions for airport-themed artwork, with the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention works exhibited at Narita Airport. The theme for 2025 is “Carry-on Suitcases.” Four works were selected from a total of 179 submissions, and the exhibition will explore the new appeal of airports and travel through the symbolic suitcase. Through this exhibition, Narita Airport aims to support young Japanese artists in their international endeavors and create a next-generation airport experience unique to Narita, where visitors can encounter art at the airport. Furthermore, we aim to discover new value from this initiative as we aim to become an airport that disseminates Japanese culture and art, not just a transit point.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-5d3febfcdceca1fec6393ba1d49a4801-3900×2600.jpg ◯Exhibition overview Dates: Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – Sunday, November 30, 2025 Location: In front of the security checkpoint (north side) in the international departure lobby on the 3rd floor of Narita International Airport Terminal 2 ◯Exhibited works/artists Grand Prize YUSUKE WAKATA / NO DESTINATION
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-85ec71989bd14069dfc55946fe6dcefc-3900×2600.jpg The suitcase keeps moving, leaving a trail across the circular canvas as if traveling aimlessly. The blue pattern that appears there spreads quietly, though with a sense of uncertainty. Packed with the bare necessities for survival, this container, drifting and moving, is a tiny projection of myself. Baudrillard described travel as “toward a vanishing point.” Beyond that, a place we can never reach, lies an untouchable center. We are uncertain of where we are headed or why we are moving. However, the repeated trajectory quietly reflects the unfinished reality of our modern lives.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-70dce429c89ea0bb7b7cfa30c752ef4e-3900×2600.jpg Honorable mention RIKI OSAWA / Unpacking the Invisible
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-a9be78ffa244e2a5a6a2f54e44df5e40-3900×2600.jpg This work is an installation that visualizes people’s inner psyches, memories, and emotions through everyday objects such as suitcases. Two suitcases are each displayed with a video mimicking an X-ray scan, and another with a continuously transforming morphing image. The images feature the universe, plants, living things, industrial products, and personal fragments of memory, symbolically depicting invisible “feelings” such as the excitement, anxiety, reverie, and fear of traveling. Projected within the suitcases are not just objects, but also inner psyches, which could be seen as a “moving individual universe.” Offering viewers a visual experience that touches the inner self, this work opens up room for imagination and empathy, and is an attempt to expand visual expression and visualize the inner self.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-159d5d5ef5109a070ff66f012f68d4d0-3900×2600.jpg Honorable mention KODAI KANAMORI / Intersection of Time
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-b55d1d024cc3f2abb110a3634aa6b766-3900×2600.jpg Four suitcases move silently on a treadmill. They never move forward, never stop. A rail passes through a small hole, and an iron ball rolls along it. The stationary suitcases and the rolling iron ball appear to be experiencing different times. When I visited Vietnam, I felt that the flow of time differs depending on the location. It’s not a matter of speed, but rather a difference in the “feel” of the movement. Some are fast, some slow—perhaps the world is made up of such diverse overlapping times. Airports, too, are crossroads of time. Departure and arrival, waiting and movement, stillness and passage. People bring their own time here, crossing paths with and intermingling with the time of others. I hope that this work will give viewers a sense of the flow of time.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-f9ec000e756b316507090a94b30aef84-3900×2600.jpg Honorable mention KIZUKU WAKITA/ What are you carrying?
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-c166071bd1fb9b6522e87cb69ca4b617-3900×2600.jpg The luggage of people heading somewhere is packed with much more than its actual weight. For example, the excitement of starting a new life in a completely different place, the loneliness of parting with loved ones, and the exhilaration of heading into an extraordinary world. This is a device that visualizes such weight that does not seem to be a weight. Ask the simple question, “What did you bring?” and place your suitcase on the “luggage scale.” Then, despite its analog mechanism, it will deliver a single word as a gift to that person. This is a participatory piece that allows you to have such an experience.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/66599/35/66599-35-cae0ddb2e5671ac3bbd884a548f6bb24-3900×2600.jpg ◯STAFF CREDIT ARTIST ・YUSUKE WAKATA ・RIKI OSAWA ・KODAI KANAMORI ・KIZUKU WAKITA JURY ・AKIHIKO TAMURA / NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ・KEIICHIRO TAO / TAO PLANNING OFFICE ・YUKA NUMATA ・MINORU FUJIMOTO / MPLUSPLUS ・TAKAYA MITSUNAGA / HYTEK TOTAL DIRECTION / HYTEK ・Creative Planner / IZUHO SHIMIZU ・Art Director/ SAORI NAKAYAMA ・Designer / MOMOKA CHIDA ・Producer / HOMMARU MICHIDO EXHIBIT PRODUCTION ・KAWASHIMA PRINTING ・SPICE-UP ・BELLEIMAGE HOST / NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ・KENTARO KAMATA ・SUSUMU KAMEDA ・HARUKA OURA ・HIKARI YASUDA Thank you to all the artists who participated in NARITA ART RUNWAY ○HYTEK Inc.
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cross-border content. “HY” comes from the slang term “hype,” which means to excite people, and “TEK” comes from a nickname used by an American music producer in the 1990s as an abbreviation for
“technology.” Using the power of creativity and PR, the company transforms “high-tech” technologies not yet widely recognized around the world into entertainment content that transcends language barriers, spreading their appeal to the world. Shortly after its founding, the company won awards such as the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Japan Media Arts Festival, the ADAA Asia Digital Art Award, the Webby Awards, the ACC TOKYO CREATIVITY AWARDS, and ADFEST, earning recognition both at home and abroad in fields that transcend innovation, design, art, and advertising. Web: https://hytek.co.jp/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hytek_jp/) For more information about this release