One of the best display of lights in entire Japan takes place in Kobe during Kobe Luminarie.
More than six thousand people lost their lives of which 4,600 of them were from Kobe alone.
Over 200,000 individually hand painted lights are now lit each year.
The lights are kept up for about two weeks and turned on for a few hours each evening.
Today, these lights are lit with electricity generated from environmentally friendly biomass gas.
