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We started accepting applications for workshops for elementary school students on Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day in fiscal 2026.

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For elementary school students. Advance reservation required. Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day Experience the work of Digital Agency! Held on July 29 (Wed) and 30 (Thu). Place: Digital Agency lawn area. Sponsor: Digital Agency. With the dark blue night sky as the background, decorations such as bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs, etc. that remind you of data visualization and illustrations of constellations are scattered around. A Maina-chan holding a binocular is drawn on the lower right.

The 2026 "Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)" in will be held on Wednesday, July 29 and Thursday, July 30, 2026.

Digital Agency will hold two hands-on workshops under the theme of "People-Friendly Digital Society" for students in the lower grades (1st to 3rd grade of elementary school) and for students in the upper grades (4th to 6th grade of elementary school). At the end of each workshop, participants will also have the opportunity to present their ideas to leaders in the Digital Agency. You can also enjoy taking a commemorative photo with "Maina-chan," the PR character for My Number.

"Everyone's Friendly Secrets of Color and Graphs," a program for lower grade students

Date and

  • Wednesday, July 29, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.
  • Thursday, July 30, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.

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Digital Agency lawn area

Program Content

"Why are the colors of maps dark or light?" I started with such a simple question.
After unraveling the "meaning" hidden in the difference in color, the team took a questionnaire and challenged the "hand-made graph".
Finally, you can have an impressive experience where the date collected on Digital Agency's "dashboard" is displayed in real time.

Target Audience

  • The target is children in the first to third grade of elementary school and their parents (must be accompanied by a parent)
  • Those who agree to the use of images and photos for news coverage, video, etc. to be published in public relations media such as the Digital Agency website and social media, television media and web media, etc.

How to participate

Please apply from the Digital Agency "Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day 2026" participation application form .
When you apply, please select the program you would like to participate in and the date and time you would like to attend. If you need to pay attention, please list it in the remarks column of the application form.

Application Period and Participation Flow

  • Subscription period
    • From Tuesday, June 16, 2026 to Monday, July 6, 2019
  • Flow of Participation
    • An invitation to participate will be sent on Friday, July 10, 2026, to your email address at the time of application.
    • If there are many applications, a lottery will be held to determine the participants. E-mail will also be sent to those who are not selected.

"Let's learn people-friendly digital technology from professionals" program for upper graders

Date and

  • From 14:30 to 16:40, Wednesday, July 29, 2026
  • Thursday, July 30, 2026, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:40 p.m.

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Digital Agency lawn area

Program Content

"Would you like a bar graph or a pie chart?"
You will learn from a professional's point of view, using different graphs according to the purpose of communicating.
It is a full-fledged program that starts with designing the layout of the screen on drawing paper, then actually inputting data on a computer to complete your own "dashboard".

Target Audience

  • The target is children and parents in the 4th to 6th grade of elementary school (must be accompanied by a parent)
  • Those who agree to the use of images and photos for news coverage, video, etc. to be published in public relations media such as the Digital Agency website and social media, television media and web media, etc.

How to participate

Please apply from the Digital Agency "Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day 2026" participation application form .
When you apply, please select the program you would like to participate in and the date and time you would like to attend. If you need to pay attention, please list it in the remarks column of the application form.

Application Period and Participation Flow

  • Subscription period
    • From Tuesday, June 16, 2026 to Monday, July 6, 2019
  • Flow of Participation
    • An invitation to participate will be sent on Friday, July 10, 2026, to your email address at the time of application.
    • If there are many applications, a lottery will be held to determine the participants. E-mail will also be sent to those who are not selected.

Precautions

  • For public relations purposes, there is a possibility that there will be coverage from TV, newspapers, web media, etc. on the day of the workshop. In addition, we will film the event and disclose it on the Digital Agency website, social media, and through Digital Agency's public relations activities at a later date. Please note that only those who agree to take photos and video are allowed to participate.
  • The contents of the event are subject to change without prior notice.

A scene from the previous fiscal year (fiscal 2025)

(Group photo of elementary school students participating in the first day of the 2025 workshop in Mr. Kishi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation (at the time))
Elementary school students who participated in the workshop and Mr. Kishi, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Digital Transformation (at that time) are standing in a photo spot decorated with a logo panel of "Digital Agency Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day," a panel of Maina-chan, and balloons of flowers and butterflies. The elementary school students are holding up drawing paper depicting a scene from "Maina-chan's Great Adventure," which was conceived using generative AI.
(In the 2025 workshop, I drew on drawing paper a scene from "Maina-chan's Great Adventure," a story created using generative AI.)
Three elementary school students who participated in the workshop are using crayons and colored pencils to draw on drawing paper a scene from "Maina-chan's Great Adventure," which was conceived using generative AI. The elementary school students are wearing Maina-chan's paper sun visors.

For more information about the FY 2025 event, please visit the FY 2025 (FY 2025) "Children's Kasumigaseki Tour Day" Workshop on Learning and Thinking in generative AI .

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