Good evening, our dear friends of Forum City. It is in the evening you can fully enjoy the spectacle created by Keifuku Arashiyama. There’s a station in Kyoto that was designed by GLAMOROUS. That’s where we’ll go.
Japan is famous for its traditions. For example, the festival of sakura blossoms and the admiration of its flowers is not only known outside the country, but even adopted. There are orchards of this Japanese cherry tree in southern Russia and Ukraine. Every year, fans of Japanese culture come there to admire the white and pink flowers, from which petals gently fall.
Making paper lanterns that glow from within has a centuries-old tradition. Depending on the event, they would be launched on water or into the sky. These are the lights used to decorate the holidays. Now it’s not just in Japan where you can see thousands of lights flying up into the sky.
There’s a train station in Kyoto called Keifuku Arashiyama. It’s known for its unusual decorations. These are entire avenues of tall lanterns that are traditionally painted and glow from within.
This is what the pathway looks like when it’s deep at night outside. Good lighting is very important for the Japanese. Judging by their routines, they are all owls. The first stores open at 10 a.m. local time. Many start work or study at noon. That’s why most of them return home when the sun has long since fallen asleep.
Take a closer look at the drawings on the lanterns. They do not repeat themselves. There are birds, the chrysanthemums that philosophers love so much, gardens of flowering branches and just flowers or circles. You can see the passageways between the lights at the beginning of the photo.
That’s how the train station is seen by those on the train. A bright, beautiful fairy tale, with a glowing maze of pathways.
The sun will soon come over the horizon. Already the sky above the rooftops of houses in the east is getting lighter. The rails run toward a dark mountain. You can see the houses near you. Some of the windows have lights on. From afar, it looks like holiday illumination, not like regular station lights. You can clearly see that the lights are not just along the platform, but far away from the bus stop.
What inspired the unique design of the glowing lantern labyrinth at Keifuku Arashiyama stations by GLAMOROUS Studio?