Coloured lighting must be getting cheaper to produce. I have been noticing more and more rainbow colors around Tokyo. It’s as if suddenly they can use any color, and unable to choose one from many, they choose all. In the above photo, couples enjoy a moody moment in Lumine 2, south exit of Shinjuku station. A nice, cheap date spot. Has it always been like this but I just never noticed?
In a remote part of Tokyo Station where no one goes, more rainbow lighting that seems to serve no purpose. Perhaps they dim the other lights after closing time to give the homeless a nightclub feel.
As you are speaking about homeless… I think I have seen some of them there, but what was far worse than the lightening may ever be are the sound effects produced for blind.
When I once stranded in Kyoto at night, the shortest way through the city was through the rail station. But every time I passed, this sound thing began, and whoke up about hundred homless sleeping in that gangway. I did it once, at the second time I realized my failure and never went back again. They’d have killed me, I guess…
Back to the lightning… I don’t think it got cheaper, they might only have no chance to spend less on it because of business rivalry. And you yourself proove it. You finally noticed the ‘best cheap place’ to have a date… what do they do at this particular bilding…?
Bye.
I noticed that colourful lighting in Shinjku last time I was walking around the South Exit area (a few months ago). So it can’t be that new, but it is kind of strange and cool at he same time.
Colored LEDs have gotten cheaper lately. They use far less power than other light sources, so maybe that explains it.
Tokyo station really is a UFO!
Hej Ralph!
Of course, LEDs got pretty cheap these days, but don’t think those lights at the MyLord are made of it. To create a light of this strength, you need more than some hundred of them bundled into really small place – I’ve tried it. Also you can see small luminous stripes of light at the ceiling as well as their bevelled characteristics.
In opposite of this, at Tokyo-Station those could really be made out of LEDs – or not.
These are questions which also concern myself as well as my family… devoted interior designers since birth… ;-)