{"id":76,"date":"2008-12-14T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/12\/14\/let-there-be-light\/"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T13:48:37","slug":"let-there-be-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/12\/14\/let-there-be-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Let there be light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomo came down to Nagoya for a short weekend and we decided to go to the Kobe \u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8 (illumination, or Christmas lights).  Tomo has been before, and we thought it would be fun to run down there on the train, catch the lights, and head back to Nagoya because we had some things we were trying to accomplish.  It seems everyone else was trying to visit the illumination as well because the queue was incredibly long.<\/p>\n<p>Here the crowd sweeps back on itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_crowd1.jpg\" alt=\"Oh, the humanity.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here it just seems to go on, and on, and on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_crowd2.jpg\" alt=\"Oh, the humanity.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the sign really says about 90 minutes from here.  And I do believe it was close to 90 minutes from that point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_90min.jpg\" alt=\"Only 90 minutes from here\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, along the way, there was a little bit of a pre-show with well lit streets and department stores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_daimaru.jpg\" alt=\"Daimaru department store in Motomachi\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_path.jpg\" alt=\"Only 90 minutes from here\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were fortunate to even get a little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engrish.com\">Engrish<\/a> along the way.  Maybe Flench is a more appropriate title instead of English.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been to a place called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tooth Tooth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in France.  Tomo noted that it looked more like a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Salon Dethe\u00e2\u20ac\u009d instead of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Salon de The.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  I guess you have to watch your spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_tooth.jpg\" alt=\"What kind of Patisserie?  What kind of Cafe?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We finally got there though, and the show was pretty spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_shoulder.jpg\" alt=\"The view is better up high\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found the glow from all the cameras to be a show itself.  And it seems most of those are from cell phones.  Japanese LOVE cell phone cameras!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_photo1.jpg\" alt=\"The electronic glow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomo didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind taking pictures, nor did other visitors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_photo2.jpg\" alt=\"Tomo taking a picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_photo3.jpg\" alt=\"Just the right picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the reflection off the Louis Vuitton shop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_lv.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Vuitton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is what everyone came for:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_archade.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_lumin1.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_lumin2.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/k_lumin3.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomo came down to Nagoya for a short weekend and we decided to go to the Kobe \u00e3\u0192\u00ab\u00e3\u0192\u0178\u00e3\u0192\u0160\u00e3\u0192\u00aa\u00e3\u201a\u00a8 (illumination, or Christmas lights). Tomo has been before, and we thought it would be fun to run down there on the train, catch the lights, and head back to Nagoya because we had some things we were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2008\/12\/14\/let-there-be-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let there be light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-experiences","category-photo-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}