The TNC Broadcasting Hall
TNC is a major broadcasting company in western Japan. The company
broadcasts radio and television programs from the TNC Broadcasting
Hall in Momochi-hama, right next to Fukuoka Tower. The building is
large (12,000 square meters) and contains broadcasting studios, a
shopping area(Paveria), and Matsushita Electronic Company's
computer and electronics showroom, Fukuoka Pahn(P/N for short).
I think the most exciting part is P/N; let's go up to the second
floor and start our visit there.
At P/N, you can actually touch and experience the newest electronic
technology from Matsushita Electronic in seven "corners". The first
is Ring ring, an Internet cafe. Here, you can surf the net for 30
minutes for five hundred yen while you enjoy fresh coffee.
The second corner is Pahn Hall. This is a miniature theater, showing
movies from Matsushita. The third corner is the Multimedia Salon,
showing the latest technology for business. I was very impressed to
see a computer and printer which is able to print books and documents
in Braille symbols.
The fourth is Panasonic Lobby, exhibiting the
newest home appliances from Matsushita, such as televisions,
telephones, CD players, and even bicycles. The fifth corner is the
"Living Corner", showing unit kitchens and baths made by Matsushita's
National home products division. The sixth corner is car electronics.
Streets in Japan are very crowded, and companies have invented a new
way to guide cars through the traffic. This is the " car navigation
system", which consist of a small television monitor and a computer,
which tells you which roads are least congested. Last but not least
is the software gallery corner. Here Matsushita exhibits its latest
software. You canrace a computer to do a puzzle or play the 3DO
REAL television game.
In my opinion, the most interesting thing
in this corner is the virtual reality game. Enter a virtual world
of the sea through a helmet and try to zap sharks with a hand-held
controller. This game seems to be particularly popular among foreign
visitors to P/N.
After you have seen all of these home electronics products, you might
want to visit TNC's pocket television studio on the fourth floor.
Here, you can experience television and radio broadcasting. I think
touching TV cameras and pretending to be a newscaster is very interesting.
Next, let's tour Paveria. This includes the first and third floors of
TNC Hall. On the first floor, there are restaurants, showrooms and shops.
The restaurants include McDonald's, the well-known hamburger chain,
Subway, a sandwich shop, La Manina, an Italian restaurant, Cafe DuMont,
a New Orleans style cafe, and Masajo, which is a sushi bar. If you need
a car to get around the city, visit the Yanase showroom(Mercedes Benz);
if you want a jet ski to get around the harbor, visit the Kawasaki showroom
; if you have to call home, like "ET", stop by the NTT showroom for
a cellular phone; and if you want to find out waht will be on TV
when you get back to your hotel room, visit TNC's plaza. The shop includes
stag beetles, for imported goods, Photo kids, which develops pictures,
Lawson, a convenience store, The menu store, for printing and photocopying,
Kyushu Abic, selling SONY appliances, and Ohori Kadan, a florist.
The third floor of Paveria has more restaurants and a movie theater.
The restaurants include two Yesterdays, one for for casual dining,
and the other, for curry and salad bars, with facilities for
parties. Tochinoki serves Japanese style noodles, Yasuda is a steak
restaurant, and Torii serves a full menu of Japanese cuisine. The
movie theater is Cine Salon Paveria.
To get to TNC Hall, Take the 305 bus to either the TNC Broadcasting Hall
bus stop or the Fukuoka Tower Minami Guchi bus stop. The hall is closed
on the second Wednesday and Thursday of the month and on the first and
second of January. Phone Cine Salon Paveria at 092-822-5650 to ask
waht is playing.
This page was written by Hokuto Miura
and E.K.Swain.
Photos by Takahiro
Ura.
COPY RIGHT 1997: All rights reserved. All the articles and images were
featured by Momochi J.H.S. Computer Club.