Seiko Holdings Corporation (President: Yoshinobu Nakamura, Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, hereinafter referred to as "Seiko") is pleased to announce that the Seiko Museum introduces on August 26th a completely new audio guidance system “Seiko Museum Audio Guidance”in both English and Japanese, not only at the Seiko Museum in Sumida-ku Tokyo, but also at its website.

In 2015, the Seiko Museum has already introduced the iBeacon guidance system without audio, and is now adding the audio guidance to satisfy more visitors including growing number of foreigners.

The bilingual audio guidance will be available at the most outstanding 31 exhibits in total 9 corners.

Together with the renewed video “The Story of Kintaro Hattori” with narration, this audio guidance will provide an essence of the timepieces history and the Seiko history conveniently.

At the Seiko Museum, the signal is dispatched from the iBeacon terminal set at each exhibit, and the visitor can receive automatically the signal to the rental free iPad, and enjoy the audio guide, photo or video of its exhibit just in front of the visitor, wherever the iBeacon terminal is set.

In addition, the visitors can also enjoy this new audio guidance system, easily through their own smart phones, just by downloading ‘Smalisa’ application from either App Store or Google play free of charge.

Besides above, all the explanation boards at the Seiko Museum will be renewed in both English and Japanese, and the maximum number of persons accepted by the reservation through the Internet will be increased up to 20 persons at once, so that Seiko welcomes more group visitors from overseas.

For those who have difficulties to come over to the Seiko Museum, the same audio guidance information will also be available anytime through the Seiko Museum website

http://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/     (available from August 26th)

The Seiko museum, located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo is home to a wide range of watches, clocks and other timekeeping devices from the earliest times to the present day. The Museum presents not only the full story of traditional Japanese clocks and Seiko watches and clocks, but also examples of timepieces from all over the world.

We look forward to your visit.

The SEIKO MUSEUM

Address : 9-7、Higashi-Mukojima, 3-Chome, Sumida-ku、Tokyo, 131-0032, Japan

Tel　　 : (+81)3-3610-6248

http://museum.seiko.co.jp/en/