「Yokohama Smart Illuminations 2014」: Wow. Just…wow.
Last night I went to see what I thought was going to be a modest art-light event on the Yokohama waterfront, secretly expecting that the photos from past years were exaggerating the quality of the illuminations. I was SO WRONG! This event was spectacular. See for yourself!
You know you’re in the right place when you chance across a plaza lit up in ever-changing colors.
Suddenly, a voice boomed out from one of the buildings and a living face materialized in the wall!
Then another one joined it, and they began to insult each other!
A crowd gathered nearby to watch a man in a fantastically illuminated suit. Wherever he walked, he took a little island of light with him.
This field of eerily glowing mushrooms had a pressure pad set in their midst. If you jumped on it, tiny blue lights embedded in the ground flashed all around you.
Behind the café, an ever-changing wall of neon became the selfie background of choice
This glow-in-the-dark elephant squirted water from its trunk when its tail was cranked.
A garden of neon goth bunnies springs up in the middle of a lawn.
Lanterns made from odd materials float against the Yokohama skyline.
Under the old train bridge, a rippling curtain of glowing panels flutters in the wind.
Even the sightseeing boats were bedizened with neon and fairy lights.
Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix.
