Because the solar goes down, the lights go on for an incredible illumination of Kyoto’s 345-year-old fortress and its fall-color gardens.
Given its historic significance and placement within the eminently stylish city of Kyoto, it is perhaps slightly startling to listen to that there’s a Bare occasion occurring at Nijo Fort. Nonetheless, that’s Bare with a capital N, referring to not nudity however to Bare, Inc., certainly one of Japan’s main digital artwork studios.
Following their occasion hosted at Tokyo’s Shinjuku Gyoen park final yr, Bare is as soon as once more placing on a good looking after-dark set up because the autumn leaves start to point out their colours. So whereas admission to Nijo Fort, conveniently situated close to the Kyoto metropolis middle, often ends at nightfall, from now till December 8 the Bare Meets Nijojo Autumn Harvest Competition program will happen nightly between 6 and 10 p.m.
Quite a lot of places across the fortress grounds, such because the Higashi Otemon Gate and the partitions of the inside moat, will function backdrops for dazzling projection mapping shows.
Nijo Fort is exclusive in that it was constructed largely after the top of Japan’s prolonged Sengoku interval civil warfare, and so the main focus was extra on stately luxurious than siege resistance. In step with these pleasurable underpinnings, sections of the gardens will probably be illuminated for strolling and admiring the maples and different fall colours.
Food and drinks will even be on supply, with guests requested to affix in for a celebratory toast on the Karamon Gate and meals stalls serving meals and drinks, together with sake, made with native elements and Kyoto aptitude.
▼ Onigiri rice ball set with rice chosen by Kyoto rice service provider firm Hachidaime Gihey
▼ Hojicha zenzai dessert made with Kyoto roasted inexperienced tea, mochi dumplings, and an edible maple leaf
▼ Matcha latte with maple leaf
With a lot of Kyoto’s main sightseeing points of interest being temples and shrines that shut down at evening, it may be laborious to suit the whole lot you wish to see into an itinerary that has to wrap up at sunset. So not solely does the Bare Meets Nijojo Autumn Harvest Competition occasion provide you with an opportunity to see Nijo Fort in a manner that most individuals by no means have the chance to, it may possibly additionally enable you to see extra of Kyoto’s different daytime-only sights.
Grownup admission is priced at 2,000 yen (US$13.35) for Monday-Thursday visits, and a couple of,400 yen for Fridays, weekends, and holidays. Tickets will be bought by way of the occasion’s official web site right here.
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