All the Lights Around Honshiogama Station

We decided to take a walk down to Honshiogama station to see the light display that has been up for a little over a month now. In addition to a few deer, there are ten small conical light trees, one big conical light tree, and a shooting star that might also just be shining bright.

I'm not sure why a place that used to be a garden clock before they paved it over is only holding ten scattered trees instead of twelve, one for each hour on the clock it still holds or one for each month depending on how you want to see it, but that's just how it is. 

It's nice and tasteful though it seems like we are not welcome to be venture over to it which is different from some years in the past.

We were very lucky as we got there between trains, so there weren't a bunch of commuters coming through as we watched the twinkling lights.

We were expecting to see glowing balls based on the picture. There are no balls.

From there, we walked over toward Aeon Town Mall Shiogama where we found an ad for an interactive display that we somehow missed. Unfortunately the ad was on a changing ad board, so we had to wait for the ad to come back on in order to find out more.

This artistic wall did not used to be here.

Once it did, we photographed it and headed back toward the station where we found flashlights attached to a fence near large, abstract panels. We picked them up and started playing around with the panels, me trying to make letters and hearts while my daughter drew smiley faces.

Oooh. Lights! Right next to the abstract wall, attached to the fence.

It was a lot of fun! For safety, we disinfected our hands before and after.

We only played around with it for a few minutes in the cold, but we enjoyed it.

Faint J, because I thought it had to be done from a distance.

While it was very different from the interactive light display we saw in Yamagata, it was still great to see more interactive art coming to the illumination thing.

How we left it.

According to the ad, this interactive display will run until the third. I'm not sure when the station lights will go down but it'll likely be the first or second.

The last lights we saw for the evening came from the boats on the bay which were up to their usual holiday festivities of impersonating floating Christmas trees. You can see them from the parking lot at the other end of the Aeon.

I'm sure not every area in Japan is as festively decorated as the area around Honshiogama Station.