Seize your rhythm employees for an unforgettable after-sundown occasion.
Hokkaido’s Akan Mashu Nationwide Park, full of towering mountains, dense forests, and glowing lakes, is an excellent place to spend the day. As soon as the solar goes down, although, there’s often not a complete lot to do aside from head again to your resort and possibly soak in a scorching spring bathtub.
However proper now there’s a phenomenal nighttime exercise happening close to the park’s Lake Akan. Referred to as Kamuy Lumina, it’s a mixture nature stroll, artwork set up, and participatory folktale reenactment, and we received the prospect to expertise it for ourselves on our current travels in Japan’s northernmost prefecture.
Lake Akan Forrest Night time Stroll Kamuy Lumina, to make use of its full identify, is being held nightly from 5:30 to eight:30 p.m. Individuals enter the forest in teams, and also you collect first on the check-in space positioned close to the Lake Akan pier at your group’s appointed begin time. Earlier than heading into the woods, you’re given a “rhythm employees.”
The employees is supplied with LED lights, which is one thing you’ll be pleased about, as a result of after sunset the forest will get very darkish.
As we walked, we may hear the sounds of folks music emanating from our rhythm employees, which additionally accommodates a speaker. The music was carried out by members of the area people of Hokkaido’s indigenous Ainu folks, and as you stroll the 1.2-kilomtere (0.75-mile) Kamuy Lumina path by means of the forest, you’ll even be participating in an Ainu legend, with projection mapping, lighting, and different particular results to boost the expertise, in addition to narration from the employees’s speaker.
With out giving an excessive amount of away, the Kamuy Lumina English-language web site describes the story, which entails the kamuy (native deities), with:
The Kamuy are indignant and have stopped sending deer and fish for the hunters as a result of people have forgotten their respect for the land. However the Owl and the Jay Chicken are decided to get the people a second probability by travelling to the land of the Kamuy, and delivering a musical message on their behalf.
There’s only one drawback. The Jay Chicken might have probably the most lovely voice within the forest, however he can’t comply with a beat! He wants your assist to maintain the rhythm. Be part of him on his journey, and also you may even return with the knowledge to carry the animals again to the forest!
The journey takes about 50 minutes, and there’s a uniquely enchanting magnificence to the presentation. The projection-mapped parts mix in with the backdrop of bushes in a manner that provides them an actual sense of presence, and the opposite results, corresponding to coloured illumination, sound results, and smoke, add to the sense that mystical forces are in play all through the woods, particularly after we have been known as on to strike the bottom with our rhythm employees in time with the opposite members of the group at a pivotal second within the story.
Advance tickets (accessible right here) are priced at 3,000 yen (US$21.50) for adults and 1,500 yen for teenagers (elementary school-age), with same-day tickets at 3,500 and 1,700 yen. Being a nighttime outside exercise in Hokkaido implies that Kamuy Lumina has to wrap up earlier than the winter snows set in, however there’s nonetheless time to expertise it for your self, because it’ll be happening till November 9.
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