Luminarie is a light festival in Kobe City for the great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. We went on monday night to try and miss the crowds. It wasn't as busy as we expected but their website says there were still 300,000 people there. Over the two weeks they get almost 4.5 million visitors to walk up one narrow street and a park at the end. The lights are amazing and the theme changes every year. It's not christmas lights but all the stores around there are playing christmas carols so feels like xmas anyways.
this is the main street entrance. as usual a camera
can't capture how beautiful it really was.
you can actually give your camera to someone in
japan and they won't steal it. Have to be careful
they're not a foreigner though.
the main display at the park after the first street. This was
huge. about the size of 3 tennis courts i guess.
