Lights

A few weeks ago, six ladies boarded a south-bound Shinkansen for a little adventure.

Two trains and a bus later, we found ourselves at Nabana-no-Sato, a botanical garden outside Nagoya, home of a light show involving millions of LED lights.

Being it was still afternoon, there wasn't much in way of lights.

And being winter, there wasn't much in way of botanicals...

...so we wandered and whiled away a few hours while the sun slowly descended and the crowds did too.

And then we joined the river of gawking Japanese visitors, soaking up the glow of a myriad of tiny glowing flowers that created a tunnel of light.

The main event was a light show that took us from sunrise over mount Fuji to forest and sea, rainstorms and rainbows, and the northern lights dancing in the sky.