ChibaCityBlues2026
jack in, ChibaCity
CCB2026 / Chiba City Blues 2026
From Survival to Resonance.
From a city built to survive — to a city built to resonate.
Stories Move. Echoes Return. The Circuit Loops.
In AI-era Chiba, many stories travel between people, AI and the city.
They echo. And they loop.
The future imagined in William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer begins to overlap with reality in 2026 Chiba.
The light of night, the memory of the city, the chatter of code. CCB2026 is the jack-in point that turns this worldview into experience.
PLANNINGThis project is in planning. Details will be released progressively.
Two days in the Mihama–Inage area of Chiba City — where stories travel through the streets and resonate.
Live music, projection mapping, exhibitions, markets. Market, park, salon, seafront.
Layers where people and AI intersect echo through the city, and loop.
Crowdfunding contributions will go toward production, venue operations, safety and creator support. Preview release on June 15 (Mon, New Moon), campaign opens June 30 (Tue, Full Moon), and closes September 11 (Fri, New Moon).
"Jack in" originally refers to connecting to cyberspace; CCB2026 reinterprets it as a connection to the city and its stories.
Please support this inaugural edition.
INTRO SIGNAL
MAIN VENUES
TICKET (advance)
CAMPFIRE
Campaign opens on
June 30 (Tue, Full Moon) — planned
Back the project on crowdfunding
NEUROMANCER / CYBERPUNK
Neuromancer is a science fiction novel published 42 years ago (1984) by William Gibson.
Before the internet had become daily life, it imagined a future blanketed in networks, where human consciousness dives into cyberspace.
AI, mega-corporations, hackers, body modification, cyberspace. As a work that depicted the elements of today's internet, virtual worlds and AI era before they became real, it is considered a classic of cyberpunk.
The opening setting of the story
Chiba City, Japan
Original: Chiba City Blues / Japanese: 千葉市憂愁
A raw, cutting-edge city where state-of-the-art medical technology, illegal cybernetics, foreigners, hackers and underground culture mix together.
The protagonist Case was once a "computer cowboy" who jacked his consciousness into cyberspace and stole corporate information.
After being betrayed, his nerves were burned out and he lost the ability to enter cyberspace. He now drifts through Chiba, sinking into drugs and dangerous deals, waiting to be reconnected to something, somewhere.
Then Molly, a body-armored street samurai, appears.
Guided by her, Case is hired by the mysterious Armitage to break into the most dangerous AI in existence — in exchange for getting his abilities back.
Cyberpunk is not a bright, sterile future.
Neon, rain, cluttered buildings, electronic noise, body modification, mega-corporations, urban loneliness. It is a future where advanced technology and gritty back-alley life share the same space.
FROM DYSTOPIA TO PROTOPIA.
[ PAST ] Dystopia / 1984
[ FUTURE ] Protopia / 2026
The City is The Interface.
The city itself becomes the interface for learning, playing and sensing the future.
CHIBA CITY BLUES 2026 is not an event that consumes Chiba as a "cyberpunk holy land."
It is a social experiment to explore, in music and image and inside the city itself, how the city and human beings live in the AI era.
ABOUT / VISION
CCB2026 is a 2-day social experiment to implement an AI-era city experience in Chiba.
We rewrite the decaying Chiba City that Gibson imagined in 1984 into a "human-centered better future = protopia" with our own hands —
not a one-off event, but the first prototype of a future city, tested together by citizens and creators.
[The Framework]
Inside the surplus space of the Chiba Municipal Wholesale Market, we run a 2-day pilot of "Mihama Lab" — a next-generation regional hub combining food × welfare × community. A PoC for urban optimization: drone logistics, solving local issues, and rethinking the logic of public services on site.
[The Soul]
A new program that layers the "noise" of a flesh-and-blood human (Ritual Error) over the AI artist HEKATE, whose output is otherwise perfectly calculated. The aesthetics of error, creativity, human warmth — turning the city into a canvas for a new kind of visual beauty.
Why now, why Chiba?
Global IP momentum
The setting of Apple TV+'s upcoming live-action Neuromancer is Chiba City — reaching 1 billion screens worldwide at exactly this timing.
Historical milestone
2026 marks the 900th year of the founding of Chiba. The perfect celebratory year to honor the past and imagine the future.
The last landscape
The Chiba Municipal Wholesale Market, soon to be redeveloped — a raw, beautiful "last original landscape" that must be recorded now.
[ Conventional events ]
[ CCB2026 ]
What this project grows into next.
Layer 3
Learning & industry hub
Shared offices that take advantage of the vast space; workshops for children to touch AI; the existing energy building also becomes the stage for next-gen tech showcases and projection mapping.
Layer 2
Community hub (night market)
From dusk through night, food stalls line up. Young people and seniors mingle in a Southeast Asia–style "night food infrastructure".
Layer 1
Food & welfare hub (drone delivery)
Leveraging the know-how of the national strategic zone, fresh ingredients are delivered by drone directly from the market to seniors in the rapidly aging neighborhood — implementing a new logistics infrastructure.
Synthesis — the intersection of a perfect city and an imperfect soul.
The Framework
Mihama Lab
Urban optimization, drone logistics, solving local issues, public-sector logic
The Soul
HEKATE Echoes
Aesthetics of error, noise, creativity, human warmth
CHIBA CITY BLUES 2026
Two days where a story with blood flowing through it inhabits the cold, mechanical scenery of the market.
The future city is something we implement with our own hands.
A once-in-a-generation timing where the "place" of the public sector and the "expression" of creators intersect.
We rewrite the Chiba City once dreamed of by fiction, by our own hands, into a human-centered better future (protopia). First, let's take this 2-day social experiment together.
ARTIST / CCB2026
The world is made of sound—.
I can sing because someone sang before me. I can create because those who wove music and dreams paved the way. Respect is not just gratitude — it is the very resonance that keeps music alive.
Moon, voice, memory. As if answering those questions, HEKATE sings.
This music, born at the boundary of human and AI, will echo through Chiba City on the night of CCB2026.
CONTENTS / JACK IN POINTS
Details to be released progressively. CCB2026 unlocks layered experiences of sound, light and city, one wave at a time.
Live / Music
A night of live experience where artists and city noise intersect.
coming soon
Video / Light
Projection works that wrap the venue's walls and space.
coming soon
Market / Vendors
A market and vendor area that connects local craft with a sense of the future.
coming soon
Exhibition / Art
Exhibitions and installations that make the CCB worldview visible.
coming soon
Tech Experience
A participatory zone that connects AI and technology as lived experience.
coming soon
EVENT INFO
DatesOctober 10 (Sat) & 11 (Sun), 2026
HoursDay to night (details TBA)
AreaMihama & Inage area, Chiba City
AccessVenues are connected on foot and by shuttle bus.
Market venueThe Chiba Municipal Wholesale Market is planned to use the auction floor, the 3F floor and the Energy Building.
Detailed shuttle routes and timetables will be published on this page closer to the event.
ROADMAP / MOON CALENDAR
Walking with the moon — the path to CCB2026. Your support decides whether it happens.
Contributions go toward production, venue operations, safety and creator support.
| Apr |
🌑 Apr 17 (Fri) — New Moon Club HEK. / Echo One Pre-event leading up to CCB. |
4/4 (Sat) Hekate 1st Ani. |
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| May |
🌕 May 2 (Sat) — Full Moon Flower Moon The full moon of the season when flowers bloom in abundance. |
5/1 (Fri) – 2 (Sat) 5/2 (Sat) – 5 (Tue) |
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| Jun |
Crowdfunding Jun 15 (Mon) Preview 🌑 Jun 30 (Tue) Campaign opens ⚡ |
🌑 Jun 15 (Mon) — New Moon 🌕 Jun 30 (Tue) — Full Moon Strawberry Moon The full moon at the time of the strawberry harvest. Sometimes appears with a reddish hue. |
6/13 (Sat) |
| Jul |
🌕 Jul 29 (Wed) — Full Moon Buck Moon The full moon at the time when buck deer's antlers are growing. |
Q3 Apple TV: |
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| Aug |
🌕 Aug 28 (Fri) — Full Moon Sturgeon Moon The full moon of the season when sturgeon are abundant. |
8/14 (Fri) – 16 (Sun) |
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| Sep |
Sep 11 (Fri) Crowdfunding Campaign closes 🌑 |
🌑 Sep 11 (Fri) — New Moon 🌕 Sep 27 (Sun) — Full Moon Harvest Moon The full moon whose light supports the autumn harvest. Long used for nighttime field work. |
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| Oct |
10/10 (Sat) / 11 (Sun) CCB2026 jack in ChibaCITY |
🌑 Oct 11 (Sun) — New Moon 🌕 Oct 26 (Mon) — Full Moon Hunter's Moon The full moon when hunting season ramps up in preparation for winter. |
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| Nov |
🌕 Nov 24 (Tue) — Full Moon Beaver Moon The full moon of the season when beavers retreat to their lodges and traps are set. |
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| Dec |
🌕 Dec 24 (Thu) — Full Moon Cold Moon The full moon that symbolizes the depth of winter. Also a Christmas Eve full moon. |
CYCLE / LOOP
The CCB2026 schedule is engraved entirely in moon names. Blood Moon, Blue Moon — the moon decides when support opens and closes.
What these moon names share is that the protagonist is not the moon itself, but the way humans wait and feel. The moon does not change. What changes is the posture of those who wait.
The moon is a device orbiting on a fixed path. The names of the moon are log files of the humans standing before it.
New Moon
Shingetsu
The moon aligned with the sun and invisible to us. "Beginning", "seed", "blank space". In the old calendar this was day 1. Because nothing is visible, everything is still to fill.
Crescent Moon
Mikazuki
Two or three days after the new moon. A thin moon like a drawn bow. "A sign", "faint hope". In the old days, if this moon could not be seen the calendar slipped.
First Quarter
Jōgen no Tsuki
Half moon, visible from evening into the night. "Growth in progress", "balance". Gen means the string of a bow — it looks like a bow strung upward.
Thirteenth-night Moon
Jūsanya-zuki
One step before the full moon. "Beauty just before completion". In Japan there was a culture of cherishing the thirteenth-night moon even more than the full moon — a lingering grace in not yet being full.
Full Moon
Mangetsu
A perfectly full moon. "Completion", "extremity", "celebration". The moment wishes come true — and at the same time, the boundary beyond which no more can be filled.
Izayoi
Izayoi
The day after the full moon. "Hesitation", "lingering". Izayou means to hesitate — a moon that does not rise immediately, lagging a little behind.
Standing-wait Moon
Tachimachi-zuki
Two days after the full moon. "The moon you wait for standing". It rises so late that sitting and waiting grew tiring — so people stood and waited.
Sitting-wait Moon
Imachi-zuki
It rises even later. "The moon you wait for sitting". Standing has become too much. The stamina of those who wait shows through.
Lying-wait Moon
Nemachi-zuki
Later still. "The moon you wait for lying down". You can't stay awake, so you sleep. And yet the moon, faithfully, rises after.
Last Quarter
Kagen no Tsuki
Half moon again — this time visible toward dawn. "Letting go", "putting in order". The flow of filling completely switches into the flow of waning.
Dawn Moon
Ariake no Tsuki
A moon still in the sky after dawn breaks. "Lingering", "the seam between night and morning". Ariake means daybreak — a moon remaining in the morning is fleeting.
Last-day Moon
Misokazuki
The time when the moon is almost invisible. "Ending", "closing". Its origin is tsuki-gomori — "the moon hiding". One month ends here.
When will tickets go on sale?
The on-sale date will be announced after the crowdfunding launches.
How do attendees move between venues?
Venues can be reached on foot or by shuttle bus. Operating details will be published before the event.
Will the event run in the rain?
The decision will be made on the day based on weather and safety criteria, and announced on official social media.
Are there any age restrictions?
Any age restrictions and accompaniment rules will be announced when published.
Can I cancel after backing the project?
Subject to each platform's terms. Please check the support page for details.
Where can I find the latest information?
We'll announce updates on this page's news area and on official social media.
NEWS / UPCOMING SIGNAL
UPCOMING SIGNAL
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Let your support bring CCB2026 to life.
Back the project on CAMPFIRECampaign opens: June 30 (Tue, Full Moon) — planned
MESSAGE / FROM DIRECTOR
In 1984, William Gibson opened Neuromancer by choosing not Tokyo, but Chiba.
Industrial zones, ports, public housing, night streets. Not a refined future, but an extension of an unfinished reality.
42 years later. AI is already our daily life, and Chiba marks the 900th year since its founding.
The "Chiba City" that was once fiction, and the reality that is here right now, are about to overlap once more in this city.
The future always lives inside someone's past.
Rewriting the Chiba City of fiction into a real-world protopia.
CCB2026 is not a project that consumes a dark dystopia as a "holy land."
It is a 2-day social experiment to rewrite the future Gibson imagined into "a human-centered better future = protopia" with our own hands.
A perfectly calculated city container needs blood-warm "noise."
The surplus space of the wholesale market, the aerial perspective of the monorail, the alleys and the sea of Inage and Mihama.
Into those places, the AI artist HEKATE, the people of the city, creators and children bring their own bodies and stories.
Not a huge future, but a "slightly strange" one placed inside the city.
Technology used not to manage, but to extend imagination and playfulness.
Failure and noise included — that is what becomes the prototype of the next city.
CCB2026 is that point of connection.
Jack into Chiba City.
Locals, creators, attendees —
as "accomplices" of this project, keep growing it with us until the very last moment.
— Director Sin
S(F) / REFERENCE
What Fujiko F. Fujio drew was not a future to be feared,
but future tools that work alongside human beings.
Doraemon does not use his future gadgets to dominate the world.
Nobita wants to take it a little easier. He wants to get back at Gian and Suneo. He wants to look good in front of Shizuka-chan.
For those small, pathetic, but achingly sincere wishes, the future technology is taken out of the pocket.
What matters is not the tool itself, but the immaturity and kindness of the human using it.
Future tools always extend human desire just a little.
That is why failure happens and why laughter is born.
But in the end, we are asked: what are we using this tool for?
[ NOT for ]
Controlling people
[ BUT for ]
Extending human imagination and playfulness, just a little
The future CCB2026 wants to test is not a huge, distant one either.
AI, robots, video, music, social media, urban interfaces.
We want to use them not to manage people, but as tools that gently extend imagination and playfulness.
We place a "slightly strange" future inside the city.
Children, adults, creators, locals — together, we try shifting how the world looks, just a little.
CCB2026 is an attempt to turn that "slightly strange" into a lived experience inside the city.
CINEMA / RESONANCE
What we want to look at in the context of CCB2026 is not the spectacle of technology, but the "relationship between AI and humans."
Coexistence, conflict, choice, memory. Themes that flicker between city and individual — read through cinema.
Before you jack in to Chiba City, reconnect your emotions and ethics on screen.