9/6/2023 0 Comments Floating lantern festival 2021![]() ![]() What do you wish for? Online purchase (until July 28th): The event staff will release your lantern on the day of the event. This year, you can purchase “Kibou no Tourou” lanterns online, too! Instead of writing your wishes, choose one of the three designs. Participation fee: 1,000 yen per lantern Participate from your home! Reception period: July 29th (Friday) and 30th (Saturday) from 17:00 – 19:00 Google Maps: Near Chidori-ga-fuchi Boat Pier Office: Location: 1-6-17 Kudanminami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo ![]() Reception period: June 20th (Monday) -July 28th (Thursday) 10:00-18:00 This year’s lantern design has been renewed! Chiyoda City Tourist Information Center: “Kibou no tourou” can be purchased in advance at the Chiyoda Ward Tourist Information Center or the venue on the day of the event. If you want to go one step further and really emerge yourself into the event, be sure to purchase a “Kibou no tourou” (Lantern of Hope) at the venue and write your wishes directly onto the lantern. Interested in what the event looks like? This is a video of the last time the event took place in 2019:Įnjoying the romantic sight of the floating lanterns is one way to take part in the festival. This year’s event is thought to create hope for a better tomorrow and to be a healing experience for everyone. Each lantern represents a person’s wish or feeling. Now, it will be revived for the first time in 3 years. In recent years, the event in Chiyoda City was canceled due to Covid-19. People let lanterns float on the surface of the ocean or rivers. Originally, “Tourou Nagashi” (lantern floating) is a Japanese tradition for mourning the souls of the deceased. With its roots in 1958, the festival was once held to heal the people’s despair after WW2. ![]() The “Chiyoda City Floating Lantern Festival” takes place for the first time in 3 years. Create your own lantern and be a part of this beautiful summer night event! Finally back! During the event, 2000 “Lights of Hope” with everyone’s wishes written on them will float on the Chidori-ga-fuchi moat that surrounds the Imperial Palace. So if you want a good view, get there earlier.On July 29th and 30th, the famous “Chiyoda City Floating Lantern Festival at Imperial Palace Chidori-ga-fuchi” will be held for two consecutive nights. We turned up quite late (just in time for the light show) back in 2019 and ended up stuck behind a dozen rows of eager onlookers. Once you’re there, you need to head southeast after you leave the station to see the area with the boats and fireworks. The easiest way to get there is with the U1 subway, which crosses the city centre (at Karlsplatz, Stephansplatz and Schwedenplatz stations) and goes out to the Alte Donau station, which is slap bang in the middle of (guess?) the Alte Donau. ![]() The Alte Donau is the green stretch of water marked in the map below. The last event had a small festival area with food trucks, mobile coffee stations, drinks booths, and regular salsa displays and drum band marches. Other activities start from the afternoon. Those fireworks tend to appear late in the evening, around 9.45pm. If bad weather strikes, the date normally shifts back a week. Watch this space or the Alte Donau website (see below). I don’t have dates just yet for the 2024 edition. You can simply watch and listen from the shore, hire a boat yourself or sit outside one of the bars or restaurants to enjoy the view (needless to say, you’ll need to reserve a table early if you plan on a seat). Radio Wien is Vienna’s local state radio station and adds an audio element to the event through their own party boat and DJ. (View across the Alte Donau to the UN complex) ![]()
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