December 20, 2012

Illuminations...

Before I board a plane tomorrow afternoon for the mother country, there was one thing I had to see before they all disappear sometime right after Christmas.

Japan is famous for some spectacular illuminations.  Oddly enough none of the mega famous ones are in Tokyo.  Strange right?  Regardless we have some pretty lovely illuminations.  My friend Kathryn wasn't feeling much of the holiday spirit so I asked her along and we went to two places.

First stop Shiodome:


Blue lights everywhere!


Sea of blue

White tree
Pink tree


Green trees


Projections on the Caretta building


More projections


Reindeer


Presents!


Santa sees you!






Christmas market

After Shiodome, we headed over to Roppongi:


Tokyo Tower sparkled for a bit...


...and then drew a heart.


Roppongi Hills


White trees


Beautiful!


Cars & Christmas


Tree lined street


Louis Vuitton


And giant spider!  Giant rose and regular sized Tokyo Tower.


Managed to photograph the one star viewable in Tokyo.


I hope you enjoyed this little peek at some of Tokyo's illuminations.

I hope that whatever you celebrate that you spend it with the ones you love and you have a joyous time.  Happy Holidays!

1 comment:

  1. Oh how lovely!
    Thankies for the picciage!
    Been trapped indoors with a cold recently
    so haven`t seen any of the prettiness in Tokyo.
    Have a luvly Xmas!
    MMxoxo

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