2024 TAIWAN LANTERN FESTIVAL IN TAINAN / TAIWAN RAILWAYS

TAIWAN RAILWAYS EXHIBITION AREA is an immersive themed light zone that brings together Taiwan's railway culture, traditional lantern craftsmanship, train-themed illustrations, paper sculpture art, and a full-area light and music performance. This exhibition area integrates traditional and innovative elements, as well as light and music, providing visitors with a visual and auditory feast.

A major highlight within the pavilion is the giant train light set, where traditional lantern artisans are invited to create four giant train-themed light sets inspired by classic Taiwan trains such as the Taiwan High-Speed Rail, Relaxation Train, Forest Railway, and Sugar Railway SL370. These sets uniquely showcase Taiwan's train culture by ingeniously combining tradition with modernity.

Illustrators create large-scale artworks themed around forest and sugar trains, depicting trains seemingly traversing through forests, presenting a fantastical dragon's journey scene. Paper sculpture artists, on the other hand, incorporate Taiwan's western cityscapes and eastern natural landscapes into train window scenes using the themes of the Taiwan High-Speed Rail and Taiwan Railways, and create the " Taiwan Railways: One Hundred Lantern Scenes" steel sculpture light set based on important railway stations in Taiwan.

The theme light "Island-wide Hot Spring Tour" and four major scenic light sets led by the leader of the Oh Bear group take visitors on a journey through Taiwan's hot springs, cities, sugar factories, mountains, forests, and coastal scenery. The pavilion not only offers the joy of viewing lights but also functions as a theater where all light sets including trains and theme lights participate in an immersive light and music performance, leading visitors to transform their sensory experiences and creating an unforgettable journey of light art.