Unkai showing every day in Machida.
The Japanese phrase unkai interprets to “sea of clouds” and refers back to the phenomenon the place a layer of fog and clouds turns into so thick that it seems to type an ocean. Often seeing this requires heading to a excessive mountaintop within the early morning, however proper now there’s an unkai occurring in a way more accessible location, Yakushi Ike Park in Tokyo’s Machida district.
Situated about an hour southwest of the Tokyo metropolis heart, Yakushi Ike Park is laid out round a pond (ike in Japanese). As a part of a particular occasion happening proper now, a layer of mist is created that stretches throughout the physique of water as soon as an hour, making the park’s double-arched Taiko Bridge look like floating in its personal sea of clouds.
The unkai could be seen every day at 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30 a.m., in addition to 1:30, 2;30, 3;30. And 4:30 p.m. Beginning November 16, although, there will even be unkai at 5:30, 6:30, and seven:30, coinciding with a limited-time night-time illumination of the park, lighting up the maple and gingko bushes simply as their leaves might be turning their most good shades of crimson, orange, and yellow.
Even when the unkai isn’t current, the lit-up pond has a novel magnificence after sunset, as on nights when the air is calm and windless the floor of the water turns into an ideal reflecting mirror.
And there’s but yet another method through which Yakushi Ike Park goes to look otherworldly cool this month. The park periodically serves because the venue for occasions organized by cosplay group Cossan, throughout which sections of the park are reserved from morning to nightfall to be used by cosplayers. This yr’s ultimate Cossan occasions at Yakushi Ike Park might be held from 9:45 to 4 p.m. on November 16 and 17.
Reservations are required for the cosplay occasion and could be made via the Cossan web site right here. The unkai and nighttime illumination run till December 1.
Park info
Machida Yakushi Ike Park / 町田薬師池公園
Tackle: Tokyo-to, Machida-shi, Nozuta-machi 3270
東京都町田市野津田町３２７０
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