{"id":1913,"date":"2014-12-26T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2014-12-26T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T21:47:10","slug":"japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/hot-springs\/japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese-Style Illumination at Asama Hot Spring Has Started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the winter is a season of &#8220;illumination&#8221;. There are some beautiful illumination spots lighted up by LEDs. In Nagano, Karuizawa, Azumino, and Suzaka&#8217;s illumination events are famous.<\/p>\n<p>This winter, not large but unique illumination has started at Asama Hot Springs in Matsumoto. It is Japanese taste design lighting in front of <a href=\"\/contents04+index.id+9.htm\">Hot Plaza Asama<\/a>, a day trip hot spring facility. You can watch the &#8220;healing illumination&#8221; while soaking your feet in the free foot hot spring.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1914\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102289.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102289-590x393.jpg?resize=590%2C393&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Japanese-style illumination of origami cranes and Matsumoto temari balls, made and played in the castle in Edo period.\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-large\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese-style illumination of origami cranes and Matsumoto temari balls, made and played in the castle in Edo period.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102290.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102290-220x300.jpg?resize=220%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo102290\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lights on trees are designed to twinkle by natural wind, like stars in the sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Because of the M 6.7 earthquake that occurred on 22nd November and damaged some portions in Hakuba and Northern Nagano, even hotels in Asama Hot Springs suffered from cancellations, even though Matsumoto is in the center of Nagano Prefecture and didn&#8217;t have any direct damage.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are no problems at all sightseeing spots and ski resorts in Nagano, including transportation.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102291.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102291-300x201.jpg?resize=300%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo102291\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"size-medium\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kick-off ceremony of illumination<\/figcaption><\/figure>People in Asama Onsen hope this beautiful illumination will overcome the quake.?<\/p>\n<p>Asama Hot Spring is located in a convenient place in Matsumoto, Nagano. It is just a ten minute bus ride from <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+3.htm\">Matsumoto Castle<\/a>. It also has a very long history, 1,300 years or more and feudal lords of the Castle visited there in the Edo period (17th century).<br clear=all><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1919\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/photo102292-300x254.jpg?resize=300%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo102292\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-medium\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All the lights are LEDs using small amounts of electricity<\/figcaption><\/figure>The illumination is shining 5pm to 0am until April 19.<\/p>\n<p>More than twenty traditional Japanese ryokans in Asama Onsen and the illumination are wating for you.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/hot-springs\/japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/hot-springs\/japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring\/\" data-text=\"Japanese-Style Illumination at Asama Hot Spring Has Started!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the winter is a season of &#8220;illumination&#8221;. There are some beautiful illumination spots lighted up by LEDs. In Nagano, Karuizawa, Azumino, and Suzaka&#8217;s illumination events are famous. This winter, not large but unique illumination has started at Asama Hot Springs in Matsumoto. It is Japanese taste design lighting in front of Hot Plaza Asama, a day trip hot spring facility. You can watch the &#8220;healing illumination&#8221; while soaking your feet in the free foot hot spring. Because of the M 6.7 earthquake that occurred on 22nd November and damaged some portions in Hakuba and Northern Nagano, even hotels in Asama Hot Springs suffered from cancellations, even though Matsumoto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/hot-springs\/japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/hot-springs\/japanese-style-illumination-at-asama-hot-spring\/\" data-text=\"Japanese-Style Illumination at Asama Hot Spring Has Started!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[2359,2355,2368,2358],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/photo102289-590x393-1.jpg?fit=590%2C393&ssl=1","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Japanese-Style Illumination at Asama Hot Spring Has Started! | Visit Matsumoto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Japan, the winter is a season of &quot;illumination&quot;. 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