{"id":174067,"date":"2025-11-05T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=174067&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:20:42","slug":"fukuoka-lights-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/fukuoka-lights-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Lights Festival 2025 ~Festival of the Castle of Light~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in Fukuoka Castle and Maizuru Park, the \u201cFukuoka Lights Festival\u201d offers an immersive night-time experience blending history and technology under the theme \u201cPast and Future.\u201d Historical elements like a sacred tree and castle gates are digitally recreated. At Shiomi Yagura, restored in March 2025, a light show combines lasers and projection mapping. Visitors can explore mirror-enhanced wisteria trellises and illuminated gates with lanterns. From 17:00, a night market featuring food and culture lines the park\u2019s weeping cherry tree path.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1400%2C934&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fukuoka Lights Festival\" width=\"1400\" height=\"934\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-002.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-002.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/7 (Fri.) ~ 12\/14 (Sun.) *closed for maintenance on 11\/25 (Tue.)<br \/>\n\u2022 18:00~21:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entry<br \/>\n\u2022 Fukuoka Castle, Korokan area<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/zRVCVjrxWYuHsC3UA\" target=\"_blank\">1 Jonai, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/lightfes-fukuoka.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lightfes-fukuoka.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fukuoka Lights Festival\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fn_fukuoka-castle-illumination_2025_cl-001.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in Fukuoka Castle and Maizuru Park, the \u201cFukuoka Lights Festival\u201d offers an immersive night-time experience blending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":174028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-174067","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-chuo-ku","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/174067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}