Japan Christmas (Winter) Illumination Party 2013

When approaching Christmas here, in Japan, especially Tokyo really are become a very festive season. Every places and malls and shopping centres or tourist spot are competing for the best illumination that they can give to customers. What is illumination, exactly?

Illumination is a series of so much lights combines with each other as a decoration, with sometimes additional effect such as holograms, and so on. The lights are put on the trees, the road light and everything that it can be attached to so it all went beautiful altogether. Imagine a big Christmas tree or light surrounding you everywhere, that’s the kind of feeling.

Here is the example, illumination at Japan. I didn't know the exact place since I Google it, but me myself really wanted to go!

Sorry for late post but last week, me and several of my friends managed to check the illumination at Roppongi (Tokyo Midtown) and Tokyo Tower Illumination.

This is the Roppongi one, they decor all the garden with lights. It is considered to be one of the best Illumination in Tokyo.

In the end there is a quite spectacular garden of moving lights on the back of the garden, as the climax show. Sorry for only taking photos so I cannot show you the movement. It's very beautiful and magical.

And this one is on Tokyo Tower. Nothing much compared to Roppongi one. Several cute decorated bench, mini tokyo tower and christmas tree. But completed with christmas songs that are played!

Us under Tokyo Tower, doing foolish stuff.

 

Beside these two, I havent had any time again to hunt for other illumination. Since my work already started and become so frickin' busy all the time.

However, somehow there this thought of me that said it’s funny that most of the Japanese are not Christian but they celebrate Christmas like mad. Sometimes I feel like, this kind of happy feeling I feel for Christmas is different for them. They only see it as a commercial season, present season or just holiday, or festive season; while for me, it is the second most important day of Christian for the born of Jesus on that day. Somehow I feel ironic, but yeah. Just enjoy the light. I cannot feel the same ambience like this in Indonesia so I take every moments of Christmas happily here!