A night of Firefly watching and local delicacy

At the back of Mt. Takao lies a special restaurant that lights up wonderfully green at night, thanks to the natural spectacle of fireflies that inhibits the place. Ukai Chikutei is a restaurant serving special kaiseki course that starts from ¥10,000 upwards, while steep on the price side, the scenery you get to immerse in is something out of the ordinary. Only in August

 

Asakusa Toro Nagashi

Every year in Sumida Park, between Azumabashi and Kototoibashi, is a lantern festival that has been going for the past 11 years. Lighting your own lantern will cost you back ¥1500, but enjoying the amazing scenery of dancing flames flowing through the river is completely free.

 

Skytree’s Goldfish Exhibition

  

If you’ve ever been to a Japanese summer festival then you would know that goldfish is a main staple of summer festival in Japan. Kids and even adults will crowd the goldfish stall in hope of capturing and bringing back their own small goldfish back home. Skytree, in their own way of celebrating summer festival have decided to bring goldfish in the form of semi-modern display. Display are designed with edo period motifs coupled with fuurin wind bells, which is also a staple of summer in Japan.