Spectacular Hoshinoyume Illumination
Goryo-Hoshinoyume
Hoshinoyume Illumination (五稜郭 星の夢)
Hakodate, Japan
Light festivals and light art
What it is
Light festivals and light art in Hakodate, Japan.
Dates
The next dates have not been announced yet. We check the official site regularly and update this page when they are.
“Hoshi no Yume Illumination is an event where the moat around Goryokaku is illuminated with nearly 2,000 lights to create a star-shaped illumination. Goryokaku is lit daily during the period.”
Before you go
- Where
- Hakodate (Goryokaku Park), Japan
- Hours
- Lights turn on at sunset and turn off at 19:00 (Goryokaku Tower is open until 18:00)
- Tickets
- Free entry (The illumination is free to see; a separate viewing fee applies when using Goryokaku Tower.)
How we checked
Last checked October 20, 2026 against goryokaku-tower.co.jp. Before anything appears here, a separate check fetches each source again and confirms that every date we show is in the quoted text.
Notes from the last check
The annual Hoshi no Yume winter illumination at Goryokaku is confirmed as recurring from official tower and Hakodate tourism pages, with the 2025-26 run quoted; no official announcement of 2026-27 dates was found.
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