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19. December 2011 Mia Jaap

Tokyo Illumination: Ebisu – Baccarat Eternal Lights

The Baccarat Eternal Lights is an annual illumination festival at the Yebisu Garden Place. The Garden Place can be reached

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15. December 2011 Mia Jaap

Sapporo White Illumination Festival

This holiday I try to visit as many illumination festivals as possible and the Sapporo White Illumination Festival was first

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8. August 2010 Mia Jaap

Tokyo Midtown Waterworks 2010

Tokyo Midtown has a variety of events and for some of them, the nearby park is used. It has one of the best Christmas illumination of Tokyo and the waterworks seem to be an annual event too. Today was the first time I watched this combination of lights, lasers and lots of water.

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25. December 2008 Mia Jaap

Capsule music trees and humans

Harajuku station is not so far away from Shibuya station so I took a walk rather than using the Yamanote.

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25. December 2008 Mia Jaap

Ruby Christmas: Omotesando Hills Illumination Event

This year, with me staying home in Tokyo, I went to another illumination event: “Ruby Christmas” in Omotesando Hills. Omotesando Hills is a window shopping paradise.

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24. December 2008 Mia Jaap

Roppongi Hills and Midtown illumination

Roppongi has two illumination events to offer, one near Roppongi Hills and the other near Tokyo Midtown.

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21. December 2008 Mia Jaap

Lightopia illumination festival: Sea of Cups

Tokyo is full of illumination events these days, but most of them end on December 25th. Lightopia is held near

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14. December 2008 Mia Jaap

Eternal Lights – Light Festival in Ebisu

Shinjuku set the bar for illumination events quite high (they had penguins!) so I travelled with great expectations to Ebisu

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29. November 2008 Mia Jaap

Shinjuku Southern Lights 2008: Penguins in Shinjuku!

Finally the people who create the Shinjuku Southern Lights saw the light – or rather the penguin: After visiting Rikugien

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29. November 2008 Mia Jaap

Rikugien Light-up Event

Yoyogi Park was great but the most spectacular sites are located at the “Light up” events. Some parks in Japan are doing this during the autumn leaves season and are open until 9 PM or later.

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26. December 2007 Mia Jaap

Cheonggyecheon Riverlights

I went to the Cheonggyecheon stream in the evening. In recent years there were huge investments to uncover the stream – although they have to pump lots of water to make it look more impressive. Parts of the Luce Vista were at the Cheonggyecheon stream as well.