Vision / Mission / Value
We are Lovedup Balloons, a team whose work is turning important days into moments people remember, with balloons.
Our founder, Mika Suhara, builds on experiences such as 15 years of creating balloons for the University of Tokyo,
and delivers consistent quality from personal celebrations to large-scale spatial design.
Vision
Taking the possibilities of balloons
to places no one has seen.
“Balloons can only go this far.”
Every year, we rewrite that assumption with our own hands.
In our object work, our motto is to make difficult things easy to understand through familiar balloons.
Using balloons as a starting point, we dig deep into the world of expression and aim to be a door to the unknown for everyone who sees our work.
Mission
With balloons,
we open the door to excitement that wells up from the heart.
We deliver the power balloons have to make happy times even happier, to the places that truly need it.
A surprise for someone special or a large installation that fills an entire facility, the goal is the same.
To create a place where people stop without thinking, and smile naturally.
Values
Going beyond expectations with sincerity and skill.
- “Giving shape to our client’s wishes.”
We decide on a design only after listening carefully to what you want.
Every balloon is made to order, and we help bring your dream to life with sincerity and care. - “Our skills keep evolving.”
Taking on world championships, creating a new theme for the University of Tokyo every year: we never think “the same as last year is fine.”
Always fresh, always thought through, we create something one of a kind.
About us
About Lovedup Balloons
World championship experience and
15 years in a row for the University of Tokyo
In 2012 and 2014, Mika Suhara took part in the team competition of the Large Sculpture category at the World Balloon Convention as a member of the Japan team.
Since 2012, we have also created balloon objects for the University of Tokyo’s open campus every year, for 15 years in a row as of 2025.
A team founded
and supervised by Mika Suhara
Lovedup Balloons is a balloon decoration team founded by Mika Suhara. She takes responsibility for everything: design direction, quality control, staff selection and on-site assignments.
Mika Suhara personally handles requests for large-scale spatial design and large balloon objects.
Company
Company profile
| Business name | Lovedup Balloons |
|---|---|
| Representative | Mika Suhara |
| Founded | January 2018 |
| Address | 3-6-8-301 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan |
| Phone | +81 80-3930-3336 |
| info@lovedup-balloons.com | |
| Business | Balloon decoration, spatial design, balloon gift production and sales |
| Service area | All of Japan (on-site decoration mainly within Tokyo’s 23 wards; other areas on request) |
Service
Our services
On-site balloon decoration (personal)
Decoration for special days: birthdays, anniversaries, proposals, hotel surprises, weddings and more.
Leave everything to us, from set-up to removal on the day.
We mainly cover Tokyo’s 23 wards.
Event decoration for companies and schools
Decoration for corporate parties, exhibitions, open campus events, school festivals and more.
With 15 years in a row of work for the University of Tokyo, we can also take on large-scale requests.
Large balloon objects & spatial design
We design, build and install large balloon sculptures from 5 m to 36 m tall.
Our work has been delivered to The National Art Center, Tokyo, the University of Tokyo and more.
We welcome you from the very first conversation about scale and budget.
Balloon gifts (shipped anywhere in Japan)
Personalized balloon gifts, balloon bouquets and more, delivered anywhere in Japan, from ¥3,850 (tax incl.).
Many customers choose them as presents for someone special.
Major works
| Venue | Theme | Size |
|---|---|---|
| The National Art Center, Tokyo | Kappa-6 rocket (recreating the launch of a space observation rocket) | About 13 m tall |
| National Museum of Nature and Science | Special exhibition and indoor and outdoor walkway decoration | Glass ceiling of the outdoor walkway |
| Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo | Bubbles and spirals in the sea (inspired by DNA and the ocean) | 36 m tall |
| Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo | 20th anniversary ceremony decoration | Venue and stage decoration |
| Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo | A flying wheelchair (theme: “a step toward the science of the future”) and a Meiji-era microscope (theme: “RCAST’s microscope”) | 5 m x 5 m each |
| Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo | Large balloon gate | 7 m x 7 m |
| “Sea and Hope School Festival,” Kamaishi City, Iwate | Oyotsuhamogani crab (modeled on a new species found in Otsuchi Bay, Iwate) Research vessel Hakuho Maru | 6 m x 4 m 12 m x 4 m |
| Ginza Mitsukoshi | Halloween decoration Giant balloon photo spot | 10 m x 2 m |
| University of Tokyo open campus, various facilities | Chum salmon, anglerfish, bigfin reef squid and more, with a new theme every year (since 2012) | Over 5 m |
Media coverage
- “Ocean Breeze,” the newsletter of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo (featured many times since 2012)
- “Rcast Social Review,” Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (Vol. 01 and Vol. 02)
- Cover of a University of Tokyo campus newsletter (our balloon Akamon gate)
- “Sousei” No. 33, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Iwate Nippo newspaper (our Hakuho Maru balloon object)
- Newspaper coverage of our coming-of-age ceremony decoration for Arakawa City, Tokyo