While not really a museum of any kind, the Japan Night Walk Tour is a 45 minute long walking tour of the city of Osaka at night hosted by the Osaka Convention Tourism Bureau. The tours are led by local tour guides. In their own words, it aims to show the people of the world …
Category: Streetlights
A History of Japan’s Street Lights, Part II: Electric Lights and Whiz Kids
During the late 19th century, many cities and countries all around the globe started making the transition from gas to electric street lighting. Japan was one of those countries. Like most Western countries, it made the transition from gas lamps to arc lamps during the 1870s and 1880s and then to incandescent lighting as Thomas …
A History of Japan’s Street Lights, Part I: Stone Lanterns and Gas Lights
First off, I’d like to welcome you to my new blog dedicated to lighting. As you may have noticed, this blog is a spinoff of The Contemporary Night Owl, which is a web directory and blog dedicated to the nighttime world. To be honest with you, I have been planning this blog for a …