The Fireworks in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026 ! 3

by Kazu

Even if the name of "Niseko Hanazono" got known worldwide, the fascinating event "the Mountain Lights" might as well be continued as it had been carried out for years, I think. It must have costed so much but the evening lift service for the event costed 2,500 Japanese Yen per diem that could cover a certain part of the total cost.

The visitors who didn't stay in the area but enjoy just watching the fireworks might have increased. Considering the maning cost of the event, the sponsors must have contemplated a variety of other tactics and strategy for the sustainable development of the area.

Some new buildings were under construction in Hanazono Area but I heard that some projects of development had already suspended because of the steep rise of the construction cost and lac of fuel.

 

The Fireworks in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026！2

by Kazu

As the event of "the Mountain Lights" would end up this year, the fireworks seemed to be more colorful than past years. I am not sure the cost of the fireworks but considering the finale of the event this year, the cost performance might be too tough to continue.

The competition among the east side of Niseko Annupri, Hirafu Side and Hanazono side, must be fine but the expenditure to allure the tourists to each area at the foot of Mt. Niseko Annupri  seemed to be not so effective nor efficient. 

On the other hand, Niseko Hanazono Area might have reached the stage where no more extra attraction is necessary to make the name known worldwide. If so, I am very happy but we would miss the beauty and calmness next year. 

 

The Fireworks in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026！

by Kazu

The Fireworks of the Mountain Light 2026 event in Niseko Hanazono started when we walke down the trail beside the illumination like a waterflow on the hillside of Mt. Niseko Annupri. The townlights of Kutchan made a special backdrop of theflowers of explosion.

The illumination and Fireworks were as if inviting us to another world or beyond the horizon. Walking down the hillside, we felt the wind going down the hillside with us.

It's a pity that the event will end up before the ski season of this year but it had given us so beautiful memories and inspiration for a few years. The workers who set up the illumination and the Fireworks should be appreciated amply.

 

The Last Mountain Lights in Niseko Hanazono !

by Kazu

Why the people living in Sapporo City, including ourselves want to stay in Kutchan/Niseko mountainous area ? Even decades ago, some citizens of Sapporo purchased or built their second or third house at the foot of Mt. Yotei, Mt. Niseko Annupri, Mt. Chise-nupri and Mt. Iwao-nupri,

Even my father-in-law and mother-in-law once contemplated to do that when my wife was a little kid. If that had happened, we may have had that property sold to the realtor including foreign company.

Having properties in that area must be fine but throwing and taking away t heavy snow almost every day in winter must be so tough even for the young couples even if they use the snow-shooting machine., I think.

 

The Creatures of Lights !

by Kazu

It was like a Kids' Park from where all the kids and their parents were taken awa to another worl of kin of multiverse. It was very calm and beautiful like a dream we saw in our infancy.

It is a pity that we will not be able to see this scenery next year but we've already been given a lot from thls event carried out every year. The parade-like illumination show would be seen till the beginning of ski season. 

The weary optical fibers shaped like som kinds of jelly fish had been stretching themselves more widely bu the years of thir performance made them so tired and weak.

 

The River Flow of Lights !

by Kazu

I was remembering the illumination displayed on this  Hanazono hillside of Mt. Niseko Annupri last year and the year before. It had been evolving year by year. Actually, the optical fibers that made the objects shaped like light-emitting jelly fish in the depth of the ocean, seemed to be tired after the years mf their performance.

The silence in the darkness and the sound of the moving lifts were inviting us to another world of imagination. The coming-up and going-down illumination shaped "U" seemed to be telling us to remember what we had done until then.

It was not so cold nor hot in that night and no wind  blew us up. I am not sur how much money had been spent for this evet every year and who paid the money but we were wondering if the payment created what the money -payers had expected beforehand.

 

The Mountain Lights in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026！3

by Kazu

It was like a dream in summer.

It was like the depth of the ocean, Milky Way in Cosmos, the world after death or the wedding parade of light-emitting creature.

The moonlight would be prevented from providing with visibility and romantic atmosphere to this world in the darkness soon.  Japanese pampas grass gave the scene so sophisticated accent of the seasonal beauty.

The clouds were playing the role of lighting staff to weaken and strengthen the moonlight changing the countenances of the scenery on the hillside. Of course, the last performance of the illumination was appealing us so strongly. It would end up this season.