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Shinjuku Terrace City Illumination PHOTO BY TARO FUJIMOTO

Thursday 06th November, 06:44 AM JST

People walk between illuminated trees at Shinjuku Terrace City in Tokyo. The area will be illuminated by about 470,000 blue-white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) through Dec 25.

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  • Helter_Skelter at 02:05 PM JST - 6th November

    Really nice picture.

  • Jigg88 at 02:16 PM JST - 6th November

    i'd choose blue christmas lights over red anytime

  • cleo at 02:19 PM JST - 6th November

    I am certain that thos lights are blue because the people in Japan have no idea what the stars look like.

    Maybe in the big cities (can't say I remember seeing that many stars in London either...), but out here in the sticks is also Japan, and the stars here are breathtaking. A bit like living in a planetarium, but without the lines joining up the constellations. With only a very low-resolution telescope we can see the moons of Jupiter and its stripes, and the rings of Saturn, crisp and clear. Winter is the season for stargazing...wish it wasn't so darned cold at night!

    Isn't the reason for the blue lights that some Japanese inventor patented a blue LED recently?

  • memyselfI at 04:26 PM JST - 6th November

    It's toooo blue !!!!! What happened to green, red, white traditional colors of Christmas ??? Kawaii jah nai yo !!!!

  • Altria at 04:28 PM JST - 6th November

    The lights are blue in support of Obama and because that dude at Nichia created the world's first blue LED.

  • Sarge at 04:35 PM JST - 6th November

    "The light are blue in support of Obama"

    Har!

  • Philmoscowitz at 05:06 PM JST - 6th November

    nice! good date spot?

  • jerseyboy at 05:43 PM JST - 6th November

    Is the guy holding the girl's hand expecting a flood? Because his pants are way too short.

  • electric2004 at 07:45 PM JST - 6th November

    Cleo:

    Almost. Probably the point is that WHITE LED are more expensive than blue LED.

  • marsnairb at 08:19 PM JST - 6th November

    The blue ligts are very nice, better than the stupid white lights. also for those who buy into the doomsayers the polar bears are not drowning and the ice is not melting.

  • 555Book at 08:41 PM JST - 6th November

    Very nice, looks like the stage of one of those j-pop variety shows.

  • Sarge at 09:48 PM JST - 6th November

    "through Dec. 25"

    Wow, one day after Christmas ends in Japan!

  • temporaryVisa at 12:33 AM JST - 7th November

    Let's hope they're not all daisy chained or it's going to be a headache figuring out which of the 470,000 lights is broken.

  • KitsuneYoukai at 04:53 AM JST - 7th November

    Look's romantic. However, I wonder how much electricity is being used for this. As far as the global warming comments...who cares???? Nature puts out far much more emissions that is the real cause of global warming (geological, chemical, and physical) a "naturally" occuring cycle that happens from time to time.

  • electric2004 at 12:51 PM JST - 7th November

    Let's make a calculation. 1 LED usually has an average current of 20mA and a voltage in the order of 2V this means 40mW (Milliwatt).

    Then 1000 LED are 40 Watt.

    Then 470000 LED are 18800 Watt. This is half the power of the engine of a K-car in Japan.

    Or in other words, all these 470000 LED consume the same amount of power like one idling Taxi waiting on the street for a passenger.

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