If there’s a better way to celebrate Japan’s summer rainy season, show me! This is the latest environmental art exhibit at Metsa Village, the same place where Digitized Lakeside and Forest happened last winter.
And best of all…it’s free! This path is the entrance to the paying areas of Moomin Village and other attractions, but you don’t have to have a ticket to enjoy the umbrellas.
Metsa Village is outside of Hanno, a 50-minute express train ride from Ikebukuro Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line. From Hanno Station, there are regular buses ferrying people back and forth to Metsa Village.
Open: Every day until July 15, 2019
Hours: 18:00 – 21:00
Admission: Free
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Another friend recently posted a similar exhibit. I think it was in Jerusalem, where I don’t think it rains much. Parasols, maybe?
Interesting! I bet something like this would be gorgeous to walk through if it was installed in a sunny place. Even in the shady forest, the umbrellas tinted the light coming through them, which made for a nearly magical atmosphere.
Love these umbrellas, so beautiful. I wonder why other countries don’t have these kinds of amazing artistic displays…Japan seems to be the world centre of all art as far as I can tell.
I thought so too, until I started subscribing to thisiscolossal.com, which is one of the two email newsletters I don’t automatically delete when they drift into my in-box. It constantly astounds me with how much great art is being done, all over the place! One thing that does seem to be true of Japan though, is that things change really rapidly, don’t you think? Art and fashion, especially. Like, people here are so hungry for new, newer, newest. Gallery and museum exhibits change super fast (TOO fast, she says, having cursed repeatedly when notices come while I’m in San Francisco, and the show is WAY over by the time I’ll be back in Tokyo).