Registry

90 Years and Six Signs at Dotonbori

道頓堀グリコサイン、90年と6代

OPERATOR

Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.

LOCATION

Japan

MODEL

Corporate programme — Not an external artist commission but the advertiser editing its own sign: no open call or commission fee is involved, and special videos are swapped in as anniversaries and public occasions arise

CADENCE

Permanently installed; lit from roughly 30 minutes after sunset until midnight, with special videos aired as anniversaries and public occasions arise

SPEC

The sixth (current) sign is 20.00 m tall and 10.38 m wide, with roughly 140,000 LED chips, on the wall of the Ezaki Glico building facing the Dotonbori canal at Ebisu Bridge

SINCE

1935

STATUS

Active — The current sixth-generation sign, switched to LED, was installed in October 2014; the Glico wordmark above it was redesigned in June 2022