Must-see stunning lantern displays for Lantern Festival celebrations this year-end holiday season | Top 12 lantern festivals in Taiwan worth visiting

By MOOK Scenic Spots Editor
 
Celebrating the year-end holidays means enjoying lanterns this season. In addition to traditional festive lanterns that exude cheer, there are also creative and Instagram-worthy lantern installations that are both beautiful and photogenic. Below is a roundup of highlight spots at major lantern festivals across Taiwan during the Spring Festival. Make sure to grab your camera and visit these spots during the Lunar New Year break to snap some amazing photos!

1. Luminarie 2019 Taipei Light Feast
Taipei City – In collaboration with PX Mart, the internationally renowned Luminarie light art exhibition has been brought to Taipei, adding a unique highlight to the 2019 Lunar New Year. Featuring over 200,000 LED lights forming a magnificent light corridor stretching 300 meters long and 20 meters high, accompanied by classical symphonies from legendary composers, this creates a breathtaking palace-like light art experience.

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Luminarie 2019 Taipei Light Feast
Event period: February 5 – February 19
Lighting-up time: February 5 (Lunar New Year’s Day), lighting ceremony at 18:00
　　　　　 Weekends: 18:30–22:00
　　　　　 Weekdays: 19:00–22:00
Venue: Civic Plaza and Section 4, Ren’ai Road (from Yat-Sen Road to Guangfu South Road)

2. Taipei Lantern Festival
This year’s Taipei Lantern Festival features not only the music-accompanied light projection work “Swinging Beimen” on Beimen, and the all-LED screen, three-story-tall main lantern “Shiny Piggy the Shapeshifter,” but also the highlight of a giant 6-meter Mickey Mouse-themed lantern created in collaboration between the Taipei City Government and The Walt Disney Company. There will also be a Disney character parade, which Disney fans shouldn’t miss!

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Taipei Lantern Festival
Venue: Section 1, Zhonghua Road, Beimen, and Taipei Travel Plaza
Dates: February 16 – February 24
Activities:
Opening lighting ceremony – February 16, 19:00–20:30, Main performance area
Parade – February 24, 15:00–17:00, Section 1, Zhonghua Road

3. “Celebrate 2019 Hsinchu Year of the Pig” Art Lantern Festival
The Hsinchu City Lantern Festival, already a hit on IG, has captured everyone’s hearts with its dreamy floating Earth “Gaia,” the adorable moon astronaut lantern “Moon Baby,” and the super cute main lantern “Explorer,” a little pig astronaut.