I spent a couple of nights in Tokushima City around Christmas time in 2016 while I was walking the Shikoku Fudo Myoo Pilgrimage, and so was able to catch the year-end illuminations.
Known as the city of water, Tokushima has a lot of rivers flowing though it (138 they claim), and rivers always double the amount of illuminations with their reflections.
Even so, Tokushima that year started a Digital LED Festival, and invited many artists working with LED lights to display their work.
The biggest artist invited was Teamlab, the arts collective known for leading-edge illuminated art environments.
Their biggest piece was titled Luminous River, and involved hundreds of large spheres floating on the surface that changed colours along with a soundtrack.
Along one of the riverbanks was a line of digital LED artworks.
Most were inside transparent boxes, obvioulsy to protect them from the weather and the passrs-by..
Theer was also the standard illuminations, on trees, bridges etc
As well as a group of paddleboarding Santa's...
All in all a pleasantly different set of year-end illuminations....
Not sure how long the tradition carried on for, though I did read they were still doing the art display in 2018.
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