Nabana No Sato

Bemused stress getting to Nabana No Sato. I found at length the Kintetsu Station but then no indication of what to do to get to Nagashima. I asked two station staff and they both said platform 2 so I tried that feeling very uncertain. Happily the train I was on did stop at Nagashima and it was clear enough where to wait for the shuttle to Nabana No Sato.

I wasn’t the only one going. Young couples where the girls were rather bare legged but seeming to be oblivious of the cold. A couple of women too whom I managed to ask in Japanese if they were going to Nabana No Sato. And they understood me and I got a “hai” back (yes in Japanese).

Nabana No Sato is a large area, it is a set of gardens which has illuminations over winter. A lot of lights but less variety in those lights than similar efforts in the UK. Plenty of eateries some high end kaiseki I patronised a low end ‘beer garden’ having some Chinese style edibles there. Light rain which together with the cold made me glad I was wearing my thick coat. A wake of light swirled over a lake. A haze of smoke over streams. A flower-bed of colour mimicking the real flowers.

Supper at Nabana No Sato

Illuminations