Returning to Yoyogi Park is the Shibuya “Ao no Dokutsu” at Yoyogi Park that will be up from November 30th to December 31st.
Not far from Harajuku, the area is popular for it’s blue Christmas lights. The whole place is illuminated in blue and may you be with family, friends or a love one, people like to take a stroll right through the grove of trees.
There is no cost to visit the area, just walk across from the main park and you will see the blue LED lights.
I wasn’t sure what to expect with Ao no Dokutsu because there are trees with blue lights at Keyakizaka in Roppongi Hills but after visiting the place last night, all I can say is “wow!”.
They really go all out in blue, with some LED tricks that appear sporadically.
Here are a few photos I took from last year’s event:
While Ao no Dokutsu is known in Tokyo for it being at Yoyogi Park, six other locations are now in the running to doing their own Ao no Dokutsu and people can vote on it.
But overall, while not the best illumination site, it’s still a cool place to visit because it emits so much blue light that even your photos look surreal.
Ao no Dokutsu began on November 30th and will end on December 31st. So, if you are heading out to Tokyo, definitely give this place a try!
Here are several videos from the location (using different cameras) which I took last year:
