New Taipei City’s Happy Christmas Town: The Nation’s Tallest Christmas Tree Lights Up on Nov. 22

The New Taipei City Happy Christmas Town, which has welcomed visitors since 2010, enters its third year this year and has become one of the most representative festive events in New Taipei City. To allow more people to experience the joy and vibrancy of the Christmas Town, the New Taipei City Government has extended the event from one month last year to one and a half months this year. The main light display, the Christmas Tree in Civic Plaza, has also “grown” from 35 meters to 35.5 meters. The event organizer, New Taipei City Government Tourism Bureau, stated that the light display area has expanded once again this year, using a total of 2.4 million bulbs across the entire light zone, with a total lighting length of approximately 300,000 meters—equivalent to 618 Taipei 101 buildings (excluding the top antenna), turning the Christmas Town into a brilliant sea of lights, perfect for families to stroll through together.

 

The star of the annual event—the main light display, the Christmas Tree—is created using 3,300 LED tubes, each 1 meter long, making it the tallest LED Christmas Tree in the nation. Each light point can emit 256 colors × 256 colors, totaling over 60,000 colors. Through combinations of these tubes, vivid computer animations and graphics are displayed. Coupled with a new combination of the Christmas Bear and Santa Claus, it adds fun and storytelling elements. From November 22 until January 5 of next year during the Christmas Town event period, the Christmas Tree main light show will run daily from 18:00 to 22:00, each show lasting 3 minutes and 55 seconds. At that time, the 12 light pillars in Civic Plaza will also change colors in sync with the light show, illuminating the carousel and coffee cups in the plaza, as well as cartoon stars in the nearby Kids' Cartoon Park, and large installations such as the Happiness Castle and Dream Crystal Ball not far away, sparkling brilliantly to light up everyone’s warm holiday.