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Urbanscape Lighting Feature Lighting
KairakuenMito City, Ibaraki Prefecture
High-chroma and high-color-rendering LED floodlights provide more vivid illumination of plum blossoms in full bloom against the night sky to create charming nighttime scenery
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The light scenery from the rich hues of the colorful plum trees illuminated on the southern cliffs can be seen from the windows of the inbound limited express train on the Joban Line.
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The plum trees on the path along the southern cliffs are vividly lit with high-chroma and high color rendering LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid lights, creating full and richly nuanced nighttime scenery.
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The path along the southern cliffs at night. The plum trees are lit by LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid lights, creating varying light scenery with medium angle fittings for base lighting and narrow angle fittings for point lighting on the plum blossoms, including those of the Japanese Red Plum.
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A daytime view of the path along the southern cliffs where a variety of plum blossoms are in full bloom. LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid class 90 LED floodlights have been installed for the illumination.
Mito's Kairakuen is counted among the Three Great Gardens of Japan, and has been known throughout Japan as a famous location for plum blossoms since ancient times. The vast park grounds are home to 3000 plum trees of roughly 100 varieties, and a Plum Festival is held every year during the season the plum blossoms are in full bloom. In 2018 it was held from 17 February (Sat) until 31 March (Sat), and from 3 March (Fri) until 21 March (Wed), the period during which the blossoms were at the height of their visual splendor, an illumination of the plum blossoms called "Walkway of Light" took place. As part of its "Light Scenery Project", Ibaraki Prefecture has commenced in 2018 a new year-round illumination of the plum, cherry, and pine trees along the southern cliffs of Kairakuen. The plum trees that bloom on the southern cliffs close to the temporary Kairakuen Station on the Joban Line that is established near Kairakuen for the period of the Plum Festival can be seen from the adjoining Lake Senba, and so in order to aim for the creation of more appealing nighttime scenery, the decision was made to use high-chroma and high color rendering LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid white-color class 90 LED floodlights as the light sources for the illumination. Compared to normal LEDs, these lights are better at reproducing color, and their light vividly expresses natural color shades to impressively illuminate the sweet-smelling plum blossoms in full bloom and enable the creation of some magical nighttime scenery that differs from that present during the day. The brightly lit southern cliffs also serve as PR information for the Plum Festival at Kairakuen, which for its duration was bustling with people enjoying viewing the plum-blossoms heralding the coming of spring.
Specification
LEDioc FLOOD NEO Vivid class 90 - 50
