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Time Out
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is offering a dreamy dinner buffet accompanied by fireflies
Fireflies, also known as hotaru in Japanese, are a recurring motif in Japanese literature and art, often associated with humid summer nights. With the firefly season almost upon us, Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is now offering a dinner plan with a view of twinkling fireflies. Held in one of the hotel's banquet halls, the Firefly Evening Dinner Buffet offers a sumptuous selection, including the hotel's famous sirloin roast beef and beef stew, fresh seafood and Chinese specialities. The luxurious spread comes complete with a colourful sweet buffet filled with fruit tarts, lemon mont blanc and more. Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von ホテル椿山荘東京 Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo (@hotelchinzansotokyo_official) While you're there, don't forget to walk out into the hotel's Chinzanso Garden and you'll find yourself surrounded by hundreds of twinkling fireflies. Cross the garden's vermillion Benkei Bridge and listen to the soothing sound of the waterfall and the garden's singing cicadas – a classic Japanese summer soundscape. The breathtaking mix of the garden's artificial 'sea of clouds' and the magical glowing fireflies will make you forget you're in the heart of Tokyo. On days when the weather doesn't permit outdoor activities, you can still view the dancing fireflies from the hotel's special tunnel-shaped cave, installed behind one of the garden waterfalls to re-create fireflies' natural habitat. There are an estimated 500 to 600 fireflies fluttering about nightly from now to the end of June. All are raised in Nagano by the hotel's team of specialists and placed in Chinzanso Garden's clear stream in January. The buffet is available from now to June 29, with three seating times (6pm-8pm, 6.30pm-8.30pm, 7pm-9pm). It's priced at ¥13,500 between Monday and Thursday, and ¥15,500 on Fridays and weekends.
Japan Today
14-05-2025
- Japan Today
Fireflies in downtown Tokyo – Beautiful hotel garden begins 'hotaru' season event
By Casey Baseel, SoraNews24 Japan likes to mark the passing of the seasons by going out to see the beautiful sights of nature throughout the year. In April, of course, the sakura/cherry blossoms bloom, followed not too long after by the fuji/wisteria. Next on the list of delicate but breathtaking seasonal beauty? Hotaru, which aren't flowers, but fireflies. Usually, if you want to see fireflies in Japan you need to wait until early summer, and also head quite a ways outside of the big cities, since the luminous little creatures need sufficiently clean and calm water to set the mood for their mating-season meetups. However, the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is one of the very few places in the downtown Tokyo area where fireflies can be seen. The hotel's expansive garden is an attractive habitat for fireflies, who tend to become active a little earlier than their counterparts in most other parts of Japan. ▼ Chinzanso's garden during firefly season This year, the hotel's staff observed the first firefly larvae in the garden's soil on April 24. Since it takes a few weeks for them to mature and develop their wings, the fireflies are expected to begin taking flight in large numbers from mid-May, right about now. To prevent overcrowding, from May 16 to June 30, there's a reservation system to visit the garden between 6:30 and 11 p.m. Reservations can be made here, with a fee of 2,000 yen for adults or 1,000 yen for elementary school-age children (with younger children admitted free of charge with a parent). No reservation is required to enter the garden for guests staying at the hotel or attending functions being held in its ballrooms, or for diners or shoppers who spend above a certain amount at the property. For those looking for an especially memorable experience, the hotel is also offering a Private Hotaru Night one-night stay package which allows access to the garden after it is ordinarily closed at 11 p.m. Only three such packages are available per day between May 23 and June 8, with both dinner and breakfast included for a price of 114,500 yen for two people (Chinzanso is a luxury hotel, after all). While the hotel says that fireflies can be seen on the premises through early July, from late June they're displayed in a biotope, so if you want to see them floating freely in the garden, you'll want to plan your visit for before then. Related: Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo Source: PR Times, Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo Insert images: PR Times, Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo Read more stories from Japan Today. -- One of Tokyo's most beautiful gardens gets its own moon for moon-viewing season -- Artificial sea of clouds made by luxury hotel in Tokyo during summer -- Japan's firefly season is here, and here are four great inns to take in the softly glowing beauty External Link © SoraNews24
SoraNews24
14-05-2025
- SoraNews24
Fireflies in downtown Tokyo – Beautiful hotel garden begins hotaru season event
Fireflies get an early start in one of the only places where they can be seen in the city center. Japan likes to mark the passing of the seasons by going out to see the beautiful sights of nature throughout the year. In April, of course, the sakura/cherry blossoms bloom, followed not too long after by the fuji/wisteria. Next on the list of delicate but breathtaking seasonal beauty? Hotaru, which aren't flowers, but fireflies. Usually, if you want to see fireflies in Japan you need to wait until early summer, and also head quite a ways outside of the big cities, since the luminous little creatures need sufficiently clean and calm water to set the mood for their mating-season meetups. However, the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo is one of the very few places in the downtown Tokyo area where fireflies can be seen. The hotel's expansive garden is an attractive habitat for fireflies, who tend to become active a little earlier than their counterparts in most other parts of Japan. ▼ Chinzanso's garden during firefly season This year, the hotel's staff observed the first firefly larvae in the garden's soil on April 24. Since it takes a few weeks for them to mature and develop their wings, the fireflies are expected to begin taking flight in large numbers from mid-May, right about now. To prevent overcrowding, from May 16 to June 30, there's a reservation system to visit the garden between 6:30 and 11 p.m. Reservations can be made here, with a fee of 2,000 yen (US$14) for adults or 1,000 yen for elementary school-age children (with younger children admitted free of charge with a parent). No reservation is required to enter the garden for guests staying at the hotel or attending functions being held in its ballrooms, or for diners or shoppers who spend above a certain amount at the property. For those looking for an especially memorable experience, the hotel is also offering a Private Hotaru Night one-night stay package which allows access to the garden after it is ordinarily closed at 11 p.m. Only three such packages are available per day between May 23 and June 8, with both dinner and breakfast included for a price of 114,500 yen for two people (Chinzanso is a luxury hotel, after all). While the hotel says that fireflies can be seen on the premises through early July, from late June they're displayed in a biotope, so if you want to see them floating freely in the garden, you'll want to plan your visit for before then. Related: Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo Source: PR Times, Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo (1, 2) Top image: PR Times Insert images: PR Times, Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! [ Read in Japanese ]
