{"id":4224,"date":"2017-04-15T19:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:01:06","slug":"naganos-alps-azumino-national-government-park-witness-a-dazzling-illumination-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2017\/04\/15\/naganos-alps-azumino-national-government-park-witness-a-dazzling-illumination-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagano&#8217;s ALPS Azumino National Government Park: Witness a Dazzling Illumination Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make your visit in Nagano more unforgettable, do stop by at\u00a0the\u00a0ALPS Azumino National Government Park to watch an spectacular illumination display. It is a popular destination for amazing illumination displays during winter with over 70,000 light bulbs that flicker in time with music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4241\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/1-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/1-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/1-3-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4146\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-2_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-2_2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-2_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-2_2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4240\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/3-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/3-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/3-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Illumination display at Alps Azumino National Government Park<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4242\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/2-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/2-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/2-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/2-3-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The park\u2019s theme then was the 4 seasons of Japan. Each area had its own design: cherry blossom lights for spring; Christmas tree lights for winter; and flowers for summer. If you want to see this sparkling creation, make sure to include Azumino\u2019s illumination park in your Nagano itinerary. (Photos above of the\u00a0 installation were taken last January.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4147\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-1_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-1_2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-1_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/04\/Illumination-1_2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Tulip exhibit inside Alps Azumino National Government Park<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The illumination display is available from November to early January. The park opens at 9:30 am and closes at 9:00 pm (illumination begins from 4:00 pm).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALPS Azumino National Government Park<br \/>\n<\/strong>33-4 Horigane Karasugawa, Azumi city, Nagano, Japan<\/p>\n<p><strong>GO! NAGANO (Nagano Prefecture Official Tourism Guide)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-nagano.net\/\">www.go-nagano.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*This story first appeared in Philippine Primer magazine April 2017 issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit this one-of-a-kind experience in Nagano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,565,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-japan-international","category-nagano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}