OSAKA –
Osaka’s annual Midosuji Illumination started on November third, lighting up roughly 4 kilometers of the town’s most important thoroughfare from Umeda to Namba with colourful shows celebrating the road’s historical past as one in every of Osaka’s most recognizable winter points of interest.
Now in its 14th yr, the occasion is the primary attraction of the Osaka Festival of Lights, a collection of illumination occasions held throughout Osaka Prefecture through the winter season.
This yr’s program commemorates the ninetieth anniversary of Midosuji’s opening, which falls in 2027, with 5 distinct illumination zones representing completely different intervals of the road’s historical past from the Nineteen Forties to the current day.
Each part options its personal lighting design, permitting guests to expertise altering colours and shows as they stroll alongside the roughly four-kilometer route connecting Umeda and Namba, two of Osaka’s busiest industrial districts.
Visitors expressed delight on the colourful shows. “It’s incredibly beautiful, and it’s so much fun just walking around,” one spectator mentioned. Another customer, who had walked your entire route from Namba Station, mentioned, “I walked all the way from Namba Station. It was really beautiful.”
The Midosuji Illumination will probably be lit every day from round 5 p.m. and can proceed by way of December thirty first, providing residents and vacationers almost two months to take pleasure in one in every of Osaka’s hottest winter traditions.
Source: YOMIURI