Hello everyone,
I’m Shinya and hosting in Osaka, Japan!
I also served on the 2021,2022 Host Advisory Board with CC stars such as @Till-and-Jutta0, @Antonella78 ,@Claudia331 and other excellent global members. I have been hosting since 2015.
My hosting journey is a series of discoveries and my life has been enriched by hosting.
In 2017, I founded the Osaka Home Sharing Club and still exchange information,tips and have monthly events with my fellow hosts.
Today, to celebrate the Month of Celebration, I'd like to share some of my favorite light up events that I always recommend to my guests.
- The first one is an art exhibition that takes up an entire outdoor botanical garden in a park in Osaka.🔵🟡🟢🔴🟣
- This is held only at night and uses a lot of installation art and projection mapping.
- It’s very colorful and makes you feel as if you have entered a different world.
- The space is a fusion of forests, lakes, and illusionary lights, using nature as it is.
- I love being able to immerse myself in the world of light art and even touch the lights.
- The second is the wonderful illumination of the autumn leaves, which can only be seen at this time of year. 🍁
Toward the beginning of winter, in Japan there are many places where you can enjoy the autumn colors of the leaves as the trees and plants turn bright red.
Among them, I would like to introduce the illumination of a Japanese garden located 15 minutes from my house.
The lights are on for only 6 days a year, making it a very rare spot.
The view of the autumn leaves illuminated in gradations of red and orange and reflected in the water is truly beautiful.
And here you can even enjoy Japanese green tea and Japanese pastries!
Today, I have introduced two of my favorite light-ups.
April is the beautiful cherry blossom season in Japan.
I'll show you some of the pink-colored light-ups If I have a chance!
Best,
Shinya
@Shinya0 ,
Hi Shinya, thank you so much for your beautiful light show images. For Ade and myself we were amazed at the colours in Nagasaki on our visit there in 2012, nobody does colourful effect quite like the Japanese.....mind you everything the Japanese do, they do well!
Australia is a bit different in that we try to let nature talk for itself! Of course there are the iconic lightshows like the Sydney Opera house roof sails during the 'Colours of Vivid festival'.......
But Shinya, on a more personal level one of our neighbouring towns in the Adelaide hills is called Lobethal and every December every house in Lobethal has a Christmas lights display in their front yard. Each year it attracts many thousands of visitors, the residents all try to outdo each other year after year and this is typical of what we get to see, house after house........
But some of our outback light-shows are absolutely breathtaking.
This is an illustration of one of them. This is in the desert in the middle of Australia at a place called Uluru (Ayers rock) .......
This photo was taken from a luxury glamping resort called Longitude 131, and it is estimated there are 1.7 million individual lights in this photo field of view between the resort and the rock of Uluru .....
But as I said we like to let nature show us at our best....
This photo was taken at 1145 pm with a mobile phone on a stand using 'nightime' setting in a small South Australian town in the Flinders Ranges called Blinman.......
The sky is almost frightening, it is so full of stars, it almost feels like they are falling in on you.
In 2016 we had an Italian school student (Aurora Lacu from Modena in northern Italy) staying with us for 3 months as part of the International Student Exchange program, and I said to her..."In outback Australia you can read a book by starlight alone".....she laughed at me and said that was not possible!
We took her into the Flinders ranges and one night I drove her out to a deserted patch of road away from the interference of any artificial street lighting, I asked her to get out the Italian book she had brought with her, she gave it to me and I opened it up to a random page, and she read the entire page by starlight alone. She will never forget that experience!
She was a lovely girl and there were some tears all around when we had to put her on that plane back to Italy. She has been back here again since and we have named our Airbnb cottage after her.....
I am sure @Laurelle3 will be able to contribute some of her beautiful Aussie scenes as well.
All the best to you Shinya.
Cheers.........Rob
