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Japanese city changes into beautiful Spirited Away lookalike once a year, and it’s happening now
投稿日 2019年2月6日 23:00:42 (ニュース)
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The Nagasaki Lantern Festival gives the city an amazing ethereal atmosphere for just a few nights every February.
Multiple places claim to be the real-world inspiration for the Studio Ghibli anime Spirited Away. Within Japan, Dogo Onsen, in the city of Matsuyama, is regularly rumored to be the model for the bathhouse where protagonist Chihiro is imprisoned/employed, and some say that the stairs and streets of Taiean’s Jiufen are where director Hayao Miyazaki got the idea for his film’s visual design.
One place that isn’t usually mentioned in the discussion, though, is Nagasaki, which is kind of surprising when you see how the city’s rows of red hanging lanterns, which not only mirror Spirited Away’s color design, but also its atmosphere of otherworldly wonder as they float in the darkness of the night.
冬の長崎は2週間だけランタンに彩られます。まちを歩いて眺めるのも楽しいけど車窓から見るランタンも素敵です。4番か5番系統の電車に乗って「めがね橋」から「浜の町アーケード」間を通る時の風景は格別。おいでよ長崎! https://t.co/eFDZ519sUv
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羊食べる (@hitsuji_eat) February 04, 2019
Twitter user and Nagasaki resident @hitsuji_eat recently shared a video recorded on the train running between Nagasaki’s Meganebashi Bridge and Hama no Machi shopping arcade, but to anyone who’s seen Spirited Away, it also appears as though the train is on its way to the witch Yubaba’s Aburaya bathhouse.
▼ Making the whole thing even more beautiful is that lanterns can be seen on both sides of the tracks, adding to the feeling of riding through a mysterious magical realm.
So why the gap between how strongly Nagasaki resembles the setting of Spirited Away and how infrequently the city gets brought up when talking about the movie? Probably because Nagasaki doesn’t always look like this.
▼ Though it would be awesome if it did.
長崎ランタンフェスティバルの時期ですね😇✨
#ランタンフェスティバル https://t.co/DNHiq8pUWQ
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かなかな🐰職業はポエマー🧚🏻♀️✨ (@elilly_mam) February 05, 2019
長崎ランタンフェスティバル
始まりましたねー。 https://t.co/FTnxUCQhP7
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nagasaki-no neco (@nagasakinoneco) February 05, 2019
The images seen here are all from the annual Nagasaki Lantern Festival, which this year started on February 5. The festival more or less coincides with the lunar new year celebration, since Nagasaki, as one of the first cities in Japan to be opened to foreign trade, has long had connections with Chinese culture.
Today is the first day of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival! Both the Shinchi Chinatown and the surrounding area are fi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Kazue (@japanese123) February 05, 2019
During the festival, which lasts for two weeks, some 15,000 lanterns are hung in and around Nagasaki’s Chinatown neighborhood. That number gets visually doubled, though, when the lanterns are strung above one of the city’s rivers, or reflected in puddles of rainwater, creating the appearance of floating in space surrounded by the colorful, usually crimson orbs.
水たまりに映りこんだランタン綺麗
#長崎ランタンフェスティバル https://t.co/SWpI4A1XbJ
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長崎市観光推進課 (@nagasakikanko) February 05, 2019
#長崎ランタンフェスティバル
今日からだね😊✨
点灯式とか撮影しよかな😁
ってか、
スケジュール何もしらない
#長崎ご当地YouTuber😝
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ダイゴTV@長崎ご当地YouTuber (@YouTubeDai5TV) February 05, 2019
▼ Castella, a sweet sponge cake, is a specialty of Nagasaki, but after seeing what happened to Chihiro’s parents after their meal at the start of Spirited Away, we’re not sure how hungry we are…
館内町 mocomocoカフェ
金魚とランタンの灯り
コーヒーとカステラで500円
#長崎ランタンフェスティバル https://t.co/dnaO4cTV32
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もっちゃん Momo (@mochy1205) February 05, 2019
Super beautiful! ! #japan #nagasakai #長崎ランタンフェスティバル https://t.co/spxxoJMJUe
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AKADAMA JAPAN (@akadamajapan) February 05, 2019
As mentioned above, the majority of the lanterns are clustered in Chinatown. The Nagasaki Bio Park zoo, however, is also having a mini lantern festival of its own in the habitat of its bath-loving capybaras.
こんにちは。雨の日曜日、風も強いです 😢
2/5から長崎ランタンフェスティバルがスタートしますので、露天風呂のランプもランタンっぽくしてみました。
at-nagasaki.jp/festival/winte… https://t.co/PDrup44v6Y
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長崎バイオパーク公式 (@ngsbiopark) February 03, 2019
The festival also features parades, acrobatic performances, and live music, some of which take place while the sun is still out.
明日から長崎ランタンフェスティバル!! https://t.co/eXdIpP8YZ3
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つばさふぉとぐらひ~@TEAM NAGASAKI (@tsubachan7989) February 04, 2019
The best time to go, though, is obviously after sundown, when the lanterns light up the night with their crimson glow.
長崎ランタンフェスティバルは今年キングダムコラボしてるよー
めっちゃ綺麗だよー
何年か前に撮ったランタン https://t.co/ZSydrneLVT
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みくるさん@福岡出没 (@MayuyutaTsumuri) February 05, 2019
長崎ランタンフェスティバルの時期かーー!去年行ったけど本当によかったからまた行きたい…歩く度にいろんなランタンあったしメイン会場本当に綺麗だった! https://t.co/vfz5UkKl8a
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さんちぇ⑶ (@3sketch) February 06, 2019
リツイートをいただきましたので、もう少し🤗
#長崎ランタンフェスティバル https://t.co/aMy7MI5clD
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高梅 仁 (@TP1fzb) February 05, 2019
This year’s Lantern Festival will be going on until February 19. Being located on the southwestern island of Kyushu, Nagasaki is a bit of a long haul from Tokyo (or Sapporo, if you’re in town for the northern city’s Snow Festival, which is also going on now). But in terms of taking a trip to another world, it’s definitely worth hopping on a train or plane for.
Source: Twitter/@hitsuji_eat via Hamster Sokuho, At Nagasaki
Featured image: Twitter/@hitsuji_eat
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