Cocoon City Illumination 2023 ~ 2024 – This year the theme of the annual night illumination at Cocoon City is “Brilliant Promise”. Once again, they are increasing the number of lights used to make it the biggest illumination to date at the excellent mall in the heart of Saitama City.Read More →
Autumn Leaves Night, The Story of the Forest and Lights Chapter 2 is the official name of the middle of three light up events at Shinrin park every year. It follows the Halloween Night in the Forest illumination, which finished up tonight, October 29th 2023. Shinrin Park, also called MusashiRead More →
For years, the illumination display in Seibuen, an amusement park on the cusp of Tokyo, was Saitama’s largest illumination display. Furthermore, it was one of the largest in all of Kanto, aka the Greater Tokyo area. It came back last year, but for a shorter period than before the pandemicRead More →
Shinrin Park (aka Musashi Kyuryo National Government Park) confirmed earlier this week that they will have their Halloween night in the Forest again this year. They had it in between 2020 and 2022 too, for the record, despite the pandemic. And I for one was very grateful we were ableRead More →
NAKED Night Walk and Night Illumination Train, Chichibu, Winter 2023. Renowned for their digital art, Naked Inc needs little introduction for those in Japan. In the winter of 2023, they are creating, as they say, “a new winter festival” in Chichibu, the festival district of Saitama Prefecture. Chichibu is madeRead More →
The name of the seventh annual Higashimatsuyama illumination display has not yet been released. In fact, it hasn’t been advertised at all. But I drove by it the other night and the lights are on! It is not a particularly big display, but it is photogenic as it is madeRead More →
The Otaki Ice festival, illuminated Misotsuchi Icicles in 2024 – One of the most famous, and beautiful, winter scenes of Saitama is at the Otaki Ice Festival. Located in the former Otaki village (now part of Chichibu city) in the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park. The Misotsuchi Icicles are the only naturallyRead More →
Information for the 2023 Fresa Yoshimi Illumination. In 2020 the event didn’t go ahead due to the pandemic, but in 2021 it went ahead exactly because of the Coronavirus! As their website says, “we thought that it was necessary to have the light up event, in order to brighten theRead More →
The Christmas tree and Winter Illumination at Koshigaya Sun City will be switched on Saturday November 11th 2023. For the switch on event they had a number of performances at Sun City including a gospel choir and ballet dance performance. Koshigaya Sun City Illumination Koshigaya Sun City is a shoppingRead More →
The information in this post is for 2022. As of November 22nd 2023, all we known about the 2023 Christmas at Lalaport Shinmisato is that they are having a very special collaboration with Disney, specifically the Wish movie. They said they will not release more information until after November 27th.Read More →