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Candle Night in Matsumoto 2025

With Candles, Art, Music, Green Glass and Yayoi Kusama

When
Mid Jun 2025
Notice: The dates for this event are not yet confirmed. This page will be updated once the official date(s) are announced by the event organizers. Please check the official event site for the latest info.

The "Candle Night"​ is held at the Matsumoto City Museum of Art every year around the summer and winter solstice to enlighten people on environmental issues. It is a nice (and free of charge!) event to enjoy a fantastic night by only the light of candles on green glass in the yard of the museum with art and live music.

Matsumoto is popular with its oldest castle in Japan and surroundings of beautiful nature, but also it is a town of a modern culture of music, art, and crafts.

The famous modern artist Yayoi Kusama is from Matsumoto and you can see her many works in this art museum.

At one of the previous candle night events, a big objet d'art, "The Visionary Flowers", was lit up by candles as well, creating a more mysterious​ than usual Candle Night.

More info

Find out more about Matsumoto City Museum of Art.

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Kim Bergström 3 years ago
Very cool that it's tied to awareness about environmental issues!
Elena Lisina 3 years ago

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