Kaohsiung Lantern Festival cover image source: Kaohsiung City Government
The 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival returns to Kaohsiung after 20 years. The main lantern from back then, “Soaring Dragon and Leaping Turtle,” still stands on the banks of the Love River and is lit up for every festival. With the Taiwan Lantern Festival back in Kaohsiung, the city’s residents and visitors can relive that original excitement and enjoy something entirely new!
This year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival uses two of Kaohsiung’s landmark national venue districts as twin main sites: the Love River Bay area, which includes the Kaohsiung Music Center, and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). More than 80 works and 32 performance programs are planned, and the total exhibition area of nearly 100 hectares is more than double that of recent lantern festivals in other cities and counties.
Kaohsiung Lantern Festival: article contents
- Kaohsiung Lantern Festival dates: See details
- Kaohsiung Lantern Festival parade programs: (coming soon)
- Getting there:
- By High Speed Rail: See details
- By TRA train: See details
- By car: See details
- Shuttle bus information: (coming soon)
- Car rental information: (coming soon)
- Guide to each lantern zone in Kaohsiung: (coming soon)
| Kaohsiung Lantern Festival: 2022 dates and locations announced!
Weiwuying zone: dates and location
Lantern zone dates: 2022/2/1~2/28
Must-see highlights of this zone:
The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), the city’s new “Central Park,” blends a traditional urban district with a wave of art and culture. More than 30 works, including “Lake of Light and Forest” and “Light Planting · Flowers,” plus 32 performance programs, use interplays of light and shadow to illuminate this hidden corner of the city and shape a new vision for Kaohsiung.
“Light Planting · Flowers” plants glowing flower clusters along the lake at Weiwuying, using optical fibers as stems and veins. The visual effect changes between day and night: under daylight the blooms shimmer with iridescent color, while at night the flickering play of light creates a calm, soothing scene.
| Kaohsiung Lantern Festival: 2022 dates and locations announced!
Love River Bay zone: dates and location
Lantern zone dates: 2022/2/1~2/28
Must-see highlights of this zone:
The transformation of the Love River Bay area symbolizes Kaohsiung’s determination to grow into a high-tech smart city, and it is the key exhibition zone of the 2022 Kaohsiung Lantern Festival, with 22 works and 32 performance programs. Highlights include “The Giant’s Garden,” made up of 54 enormous trumpet flowers ranging from about 2.5 to 6 meters tall, which was shown at Vivid Sydney 2019, and “Iris Zoo,” created by artists out of neon tubes and filled with a whimsical, playful atmosphere.
The centerpiece of the 2022 Kaohsiung Lantern Festival stretches along the banks of the Love River: a 7-kilometer main lantern display spanning 6 bridges (Great Harbor Bridge, Light Rail Bridge, Kaohsiung Bridge, Zhongzheng Bridge, Qixian Bridge and Jianguo Bridge) and using 12,000 LED lights. It takes the festival’s lighting effects to a whole new level and turns this historic port city into the “City of Light in Taiwan”
| Kaohsiung Lantern Festival: getting there
By High Speed Rail
Take the High Speed Rail to HSR Zuoying Station and transfer to the Kaohsiung MRT.
By TRA train
From TRA Zhengyi Station, walk to the Weiwuying lantern festival zone
From Museum of Fine Arts Station, transfer to the light rail to reach the Love River Bay lantern festival zone
Light rail
C12 Pier-2 Dayi Station
MRT
O10 Weiwuying Station, O2 Yanchengpu Station
By car
If you drive, park in the lots on the outskirts of the lantern zones and take public transportation the rest of the way.
Information on the 2022 Kaohsiung Lantern Festival is being updated continuously!
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This article was translated by AI from the original Chinese version.
