{"id":30998,"date":"2019-12-12T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=30998"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:21:10","slug":"15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-02-terrace-city-illumination-shinjuku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/12\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-02-terrace-city-illumination-shinjuku\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Days in Kanagawa &#038; Hokkaido &#8211; Day 02 &#8211; Terrace City Illumination @ Shinjuku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter illuminations are one of the neatest highlights in any winter season visit to Japan, and we checked out the first of such spots on our first day evening at Shinjuku, and in particular the light-ups at <strong>Terrace City.<\/strong> This is actually a large entertainment and retail area that apparently comprises numerous buildings, but largely in part because we&#8217;d had a very long day, we visited just one of the outdoor spots. The pictures here were all taken on the A73 with 24-105mm f4, with some minor Lightroom edits to give a bit more clarity to shadows and also some increased white levels &#8211; but the area is really as beautiful as these pictures hint at.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01010-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01010-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01010-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01010-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01015-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01015-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01015-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01015-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01022-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01022-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01022-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01022-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01026-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01026-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01026-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01026-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01031-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01031-shinjuku.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01031-shinjuku-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01032-shinjuku.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01032-shinjuku.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01032-shinjuku-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01032-shinjuku-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a wrap for our first day in Japan. Onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/13\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-02-yokohama-cup-noodle-museum\/\">Yokohama<\/a> next in Day 02!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter illuminations are one of the neatest highlights in any winter season visit to Japan, and we checked out the first of such spots on our first day evening at Shinjuku, and in particular the light-ups at Terrace City. This<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/12\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-02-terrace-city-illumination-shinjuku\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  15 Days in Kanagawa &#038; Hokkaido &#8211; Day 02 &#8211; Terrace City Illumination @ Shinjuku<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[662,608,613],"class_list":["post-30998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-kanagawa-hokkaido-japan-2019","tag-sony-a7-iii","tag-sony-fe-24-105mm-f4-0","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01026-shinjuku.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38459,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30998\/revisions\/38459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}