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Wishing upon as star is made conveniently easy with the help of your smartphone.

Fukotoku Shrine’s Forest Park in Nihonbashi is exhibiting a light show made even special by combining an illumination event with a meteor shower-sensing system, made possible through the works of the digital art firm Bascule.

Some of the trees are decorated with bright illuminations that light up whenever the system senses a meteor passing by, before launching the wishes made by guests using Twitter into the sky.

The event is a collaboration with Sanrio, featuring its classic and well-loved Little Twin Stars characters, Kiki and Lala—who only wakes up whenever they had to work their magic!

The engineer in-charge of the event, Seiya Takeda, said that meteor showers can still be spotted using radio waves, even if they couldn’t be seen by the naked eye.

Tags: nihonbashi, fukotoku, lightshow, illumination, sanrio, little twin stars, fukotoku shrine's forest park, seiya takeda, kiki and lala