The 13th Azumino Kami Bamboo Lantern (Traditional Japanese straw raincoat Kami Akari) 2024 / 6 days Held in Friday, November 29 – Sunday, December 1 December 6 (Fri) - 8 (Sun) 16:00~20:00 (all days) Hotaka Shrine (about 5 minutes walk from Hotaka Station on the JR Oito Line) Enjoy the gentle atmosphere of Hotaka Shrine, which is decorated with about 10,000 bamboo lanterns Anyone can participate in the lighting at 4 p.m. Bring your own with a long picture lighter Live performances at Kagura-den, Kitchen Car and booths are lined up at Minami-Shinen [Azumino Terasu], and a special stage of Hodaka dolls of traditional culture is displayed at Kitajin-en *Admission is free *Car parking is limited, so please come by public transportation

The sight of two 24-meter-high castle lanterns and two 17-meter-high castle lanterns parading through the city was truly spectacular!

TDS/Fantasy Springs Rapunzel's area, lanterns are beautiful ? at night I want to see it in the daytime next time.

✨ Illumination Events ✨ From Saturday, January 27 to Saturday, February 24, illuminations will color the ? area in front of Tomakomai Station At the opening, there will be live music and the launch of sky lanterns! ?? Would you like to enjoy the sparkling snowy scenery? ⛄✨

Lantern Festival ? This is a lantern festival held in Motomachi, Kobe City. At a certain time every year, the lanterns in the city glow in various colors. You can only see it in Chinatown, so please visit it ? Location: Motomachi Chinatown

Okinawa Murasaki Mura Ryukyu Lantern Festival

Turn on the ⭐ lights This is located in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture 　　　　　　　　　　"Nankinmachi" I took this photo when the Lantern Festival was being held. Personally, I prefer ? this to Yokohama

*◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆* ◇* 　　　　 Event Announcements *◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆*◇*◆* ◇* On Saturday, December 23rd, the event "Symbol Street Terrace ~The Road Where Light and Sound Meet~" will be held on Symbol Street (Ekimae Hondori)! ✨ A meat fast food restaurant produced by EXILE's SHOKICHI will open a store for the first time, launch a sky lantern, and many other events! ? The venue will be a pedestrian paradise, so it will be closed to vehicle traffic from 11 a.m. ~ 10 p.m. ?‍♀️ Also, please note that "Ekidori Cross Street" and "Ekidori" of the Donan bus stop cannot be used all day. For more information, search for "Symbol Street Bustle Creation Project Pre-Event"! ? (It is also posted on the new information on the Tomakomai Tourism Association website!) ）

Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture Famous Kinosaki Onsen It is my favorite place in Hyogo Prefecture, and the number of people from overseas is increasing ?. Kinosaki Onsen in summer

This is the "Lantern Forest" of "teamLab Borderless" in Odaiba, Tokyo, taken in 2021. It is an art that weaves light that brings together the exquisite technology that Japan is proud of. It impressed many people and greatly changed the way we think about art.

【? Hiroo Santaland ?】 The lighting ceremony ended successfully on October 28th, and the lighting of the illumination began! This year, along with about 150,000 illumination balls, the number of wood lanterns has increased to about 10,000. In addition, the inside of the "Santa Workshop" next to the newly installed parking lot is a very nice space! Please enjoy it as a beautiful spot! It is limited from 4 o'clock when this "Santa Workshop" illumination lights up until Santa's house (shop) closes. business hours Santaland: ・Late April ~ October The day before the lighting ceremony: 10 am ~ 6 pm ・October 28 ~ Late December: 10 am ~ 8 pm ・January ~ late April: 10 am ~ 4 pm *Closed from December 26th ~ January 10th Light up: October 28, 2023 ~ January 3, 2024 16:00~22:00 Hiroo Santaland www.santaland.or.jp Hiroo Town Tourism Association hiroo-kanko.jp ? Bus Information: By Tokachi Bus, about 2 hours / Get off at Hiroo Elementary School and walk 5 minutes (about 353m) Timetable No.6 60.Hiroo Line: www.tokachibus.jp/rosenbus/timetable ? Visit Tokachipas 1 & 2 Day Pass|We recommend unlimited bus rides in the Tokachi area. →For details, Tokachi Bus TEL 0155-37-6500 #Hokkaido #Minami Tokachi #Hiroo #Santaland #Solid #illumination #Wood Lantern #Romantic #Lover's Sanctuary

Otaru Summer Lights An event held on September 30th ~ October 1st at the Otaru Canal in Hokkaido to pass the baton from summer to autumn Although it is called "summer lantern", it signals the arrival of autumn for the citizens of Otaru. Put your thoughts on a lantern and float in the sky and wait for autumn to come. By the end of this event, the climate and temperature in Hokkaido will advance to autumn.

Kotone River Lantern Festival At the festival that began in the early Showa era, about 250 large lanterns of one tatami mat float Shooting a scene at dusk

Former Shimazu Ujitamari Residence Garden ? It is a daimyō garden built by the Shimazu clan, the lord of Satsuma Domain, in 1835, and is ? designated as a National Place of Scenic Beauty by 2007 (Heisei 19). Above all, it is attractive ? that admission is free. The photo shows cherry blossoms ? from a stone lantern

The long-awaited "Snow Lantern Road" event will be held!!! One of the events I have been waiting for a long time..... From January 28 to February 4, 2023, 1,000 handmade snow candles will be placed at Jozankei Shrine from January 28 to February 4, 2023 ✨. ? Don't forget to join us for this unique and welcoming event every winter! Of course, I want to stay at the Jintang Pavilion for one night in the evening! Make yourself a different trip.

Some more photos from our trip to Nikko. There were so many awesome monuments, landmarks, and buildings that it'd be impossible to fit it all into one post. I was so glad that I had my mobile battery with me because I was taking so many photos that I was just burning through my battery lol. I really liked how the incense burner looked and I tried looking up how old it was but I wasn't able to find anything about it, only the one in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu's burial site. I would have liked to use the chozuya as well, but unfortunately it was closed off due to covid. I also liked seeing the sake barrels as well as they always brighten up shrines. The "Ippon Toro" lantern was interesting as well. I'd never heard of Empress Tofukumon'in before either, so it gave me some interesting things to read about Japan's Edo Period. Apparently she helped rebuild prominent temple in Kyoto and collected art and pottery from famous artisans of the time and even those of the past. Some buildings I'd have to look at a map to know their names but there was definitely no shortage of decorations. Unfortunately we weren't able to take photos inside some of the main buildings, but a few of them had ceiling paintings done by famous painters. Many of them were birds, and I'm not an expert, but I think they were mostly cranes and they were all really beautiful.

I found some photos of when I visited Todaiji Temple. I took a photo of the bronze lantern out front of the temple because I thought it looked really cool, but it's pretty crazy to think that the lantern is around 1,300 years old at this point. I also took some photos of a few of the statues inside the temple, the first being Akasagarbha (虚空蔵菩薩), one of the Eight Great Bodhisattva, and the second (which took me forever to find the name of...) being Virupaksa (広目天), one of the Four Heavenly Kings. I'm not sure what Virupaksa is made of but I think this statue is made of wood, although I could be wrong. It looks like a different material from the other statues inside the temple, although it's been quite a while since I visited and I can't recall exactly. All the statues are really awesome though. I'll have to upload some more photos later!

Nagasaki Lantern Festival 2020.

Nagasaki Lantern Festival 2020.