Haunted Planet brought “Yokai: Japanese Ghosts”, its Music Art Augmented Reality (AR) game giving insights into the cultural diversity and history of Japan, to Dublin’s Baggotonia Festival 2024 as an AR workshop. Staged amidst the cherry blossoms and terrain of Herbert Park, in Dublin, Ireland, Haunted Planet placed AR encounters according to the terrain and locative qualities of the landscape to fit into the story.

“Yokai: Japanese Ghosts” is available for free download on smartphones at this link.

Yokai are supernatural entities and spirits from Japanese folklore. “Japan was a country and culture that existed between realms: the world of the everyday and the world of the supernatural” (The Snow Ghost and Other Tales, 2023). In this experience, you’ll immerse yourself in the art of Japanese Ukiyo-e masters and original music by Svetlana Rudenko. Follow the radar to find 10 music art encounters and collect them into your casebook to create your memories with a landscape.