The lighting stone stairway

Colonnades of the light which were got ready by the Japanese oldest hot spring-town planning in Ikaho ―the stone stairway town―.

By arranging a nallw upper light along a stairway in the shape of a line, the various phenomena of the Ikaho hot spring are visualized.

Here, the town of hot water lets an aspect change completely with Night and Day.

It is not outstanding at noon, but colonnades of fantastic light go in the sky and stand straight up at night. Through the highest light called the LED, The phenomenon that a drawing does not show is visualized such as the turnout of the person of Ikaho, the natural phenomenon that continue changing, hot water smoke only in the hot spring-town.

When a town of Ikaho is surrounded by dusk, pillars of the light show the way to Ikaho Shrine along a stone stairway from a distance and become the night landmark.

The scene of the hot spring-town which is unique in the world colored by a curtain of the light can be called the "light" for the future of the Ikaho hot spring.


Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Cooperation : Hatakeyama Gaku

Design : 2011.02

光の石段

日本最古の温泉都市計画によって整備された伊香保の石段街の光の列柱.

石段に沿ってライン状にナローなアッパーライトを配置することにより,伊香保温泉の様々な現象が視覚化されています.

ここでは,湯の町は昼と夜で様相を一変させます.

昼は目立たなかった照明器具から,夜は幻想的な光の列柱が空に向かって真っ直ぐに立ち上がり,

LEDの最先端の光を媒介として,伊香保の人の賑わい,変化し続ける自然現象,温泉街ならではの湯けむり,

といった図面には現れない出来事が視覚化されます.

伊香保の町が夕闇に包まれる頃,遠くから見ると石段に沿って光の柱が伊香保神社までの道を指し示し,夜のランドマークとなります.

光のカーテンに彩られた世界にも類を見ない温泉街の情景は,伊香保温泉の未来に対する光とも言えます.


担当:藤野高志

協力:畠山学

設計期間:2011.02