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.

 

The Mountain Lights in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026！2

by Kazu

The glaring characters of "U" were going over the light river flow on the hillside of Hanazono on Mt. Niseko Annupri. The illuminations shaped like jelly fish seemed to be tired after the years of their performance.

The moon was going down to behind Mt. Niseko Annupri. We Japanese people enjoy the full moon wit Japanese pampas grass in autumn when the air is clean and the shining moon can be seen so clearly. 

We would visit and stay in the newly-opened hotel near there a month later. I was so happy to see my wife pleased watching the scenery und the beautiful sky .

 

The Mountain Lights in Niseko Hanazono Autumn 2026 !

by Kazu

Hotel Nikko Style Niseko was also emitting bright lights beside Hotel Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono. We could not see the collaboration of the Fire Knife by the indigenous people of Hokkaido Ainu and the Fireworks this year.

We could find a little bit different arrangement of illuminations like red flowers. The illumination arrangement of Niseko Hanazono had evolved year by year. The efforts of the event staff should be appreciated enough every year.  

These are the new red illuminations on the hillside. They were like flowers blooming and swinging in the darkness. It was like the scenery to be enjoyed by the vampires of peerage. It is a pity that the illumination event will end up this year.

 

The Lift in Niseko Hanazono!

by Kazu

The light-emitting "U" is the frame of the lifts moving over the Hanazono hillside of Mt. Niseko Annupri. The illuminations like the Milky Way on the hillside seemed as if flowing to the direction of Kutchan Town.

The low moving sound of the lifts and wires were whispering with the winds on the hillside. No staff was at the highest station of the lift in the darkness. It must be so tough to stay there for hours.

Going down the hillside, the bright lights of Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono could be seen at the end of the illumination river. Soon the fireworks would start near the lower station of the light.