Tokyo Hotaru is a new annual festival in Japan, the first one having taken place during Golden Week in 2012. The word hotaru in Japanese refers to fireflies. The hotaru in this case are LED lights inside of floating balls that are sent down the Sumida River in Asakusa. As you can imagine it is a beautiful sight to see tens of thousands of blue LED lit balls gently floating down the river. The event takes place between the Sakura-bashi and Azuma-bashi bridges which is about a five minute walk from Asakusa Station. It has proven to be very popular; the official number of people in attendance according to the Tokyu Hotaru Festival website was 279,140 this year. It goes without saying that the festival was very busy. I would recommend buying a ticket as the bridges get extremely crowded and it is difficult to view the event. To make the most of this festival you can buy an inori-boshi, or prayer star, the official name for the LED balls. You can then release it into the river yourself from inside the event area. Purchasing a prayer star contributes towards the improvement of Tokyo’s riverbanks as well the next Tokyo… Read full this story
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