The Sandbox team announced in a blog post that it has partnered with Japanese-based SHIBUYA109 Entertainment Corporation
The Sandbox & SHIBUYA109 Partnership
The Sandbox team announced a partnership with SHIBUYA109 Entertainment Corporation of Japan in a blog post on Wednesday. The two entities will collaborate on the Metaverse launch of SHIBUYA109 LAND. SHIBUYA109 LAND will be a tourism destination in The Sandbox Metaverse, where SHIBUYA109 intends to establish a range of companies using NFTs and others.
The Sandbox will be introducing a tourism Shibuya 109 land to the Metaverse, according to the release. The primary goal of this place is to provide an engaging playground where each participant may have unique and fascinating experiences. The gamers may visit the Shibuya area, wander through the city, see Tokyo’s urban life, and even access the Shibuya 109 shopping center using their VR headsets. The Sandbox intends to attract additional people from across the world who are unable to travel to Japan due to the pandemic crisis.
Numerous companies recognized that travel would be jeopardized during the outbreak. Thus, SHIBUYA109 Entertainment desired to develop a Shibuya City that would be accessible to visitors from all over the world. Apart from that, The Sandbox has partnered with other IPs, including Care Bears, Atari, CryptoKitties, and Shaun the Sheep, and will continue to do so.
Quotes
“We welcome SHIBUYA109 to The Sandbox as one of the leading brands and host of the most recognizable touristic location in Japan. SHIBUYA 109’s LAND is poised to become an epicenter of culture in the Metaverse, as it is in the real world, and we’ll work with their team on making their famous location and Japanese culture globally accessible to everyone in the Metaverse, as an iconic place where lifestyle, music, fashion, and socializing match up.” — Sébastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox.
“We were among the first to focus on the Metaverse and NFT, and have been preparing for it since April 2021. 2021 is said to be the first year of NFT, and 2010 the first year of the Metaverse, and we have decided to enter The Sandbox, a popular blockchain game. We are very much looking forward to the challenge of a new field that is different from our existing business. At SHIBUYA109 LAND, we will not only offer new experiences that only the Metaverse can provide, but we will also collaborate with various artists and characters, as we have done in the real world, so that many people, both in Japan and overseas, will be able to play the game. I hope that this project will help people to become interested in the Metaverse and NFTs.” — Ayumi Ishikawa, Representative Director, SHIBUYA109 ENTERTAINMENT Inc.
