Abstract
Public cultural halls in Japan need to be reorganized and re-established to adapt to recent social changes, and establishment of theatre law is examined nowadays. In the theatre law it is suggested to classify public cultural halls by the roles such as creativity, appreciation, assembly, etc. The purpose of this report is to elucidate the differences between regions or settlement sizes.
We conducted an investigation of 2427 halls nationwide. In this report, we classify public cultural halls from 1207 valid responses by attributes such as sub-facilities, planning of activities, external collaborations and information utilization , and compare them inter-regionally.
