deuceの旅行: Halloween in Tama Center 2012 (ハロウインin多摩センター2012)

It's not a tourist spot, nor a big time event, even just on a city-wide scale, but the Halloween event in Tama Center last Oct. 27-28 was quite interesting that I thought I'd post something about it. It was really not the reason why I was around Tokyo that time, that even though I brought my camera because I heard there was an event, I didn't bother to check it, and only when I came there that I realized I forgot a memory card.

Tama Center is probably more famous for being the location of Sanrio Puroland. It's accessible from three train lines, the Keio Tama Center station (京王多摩センター駅) of the Keio Sagamihara line (京王相模原線), Odakyu Tama Center station (小田急多摩センター駅) of the Odakyu Tama line (小田急多摩線) and the Tama Center station (多摩センター駅) of the Tama Monorail (多摩都市モノレール線).

My wife and I were just invited to go to this event. I heard there was some sort of illumination, but I didn't know that they were going to do it on Halloween pumpkins. It was scheduled to start at 5:30PM, and we arrived there at around 4:30PM, so we had some time to kill. There was a park near where the entire event was happening, though I wasn't able to go there, only my wife and my friends did. Why? I had to scramble to find a memory card. Good thing there were malls all over, so I was able to buy one immediately. Since I was left alone, I just took the opportunity to take some pictures of the event right before sunset.

When it was almost 5:30PM, we went back to the Halloween pumpkins, and by this time, there were already about 4 rows of people surrounding them. We just waited until those in front were done taking pictures, so the next row would move, and then they would move out again, and so on. After about 10 minutes, we're already at the front and I found myself sitting near the pumpkins. There were different designs, and there was even a Doraemon pumpkin! They also came in different sizes, so even if they were just pumpkins, looking at them together and illuminated was an eye candy.