On Saturday 28 October, the 15th annual Canberra Nara Candle Festival was held at Canberra Nara Peace Park & Lennox Gardens in Canberra to celebrate the 24th year of the Sister City relationship between Canberra and Nara. This festival, which has taken place annually since 2003, is an opportunity to provide visitors a fun Japanese experience through calligraphy workshops, origami workshops and ikebana demonstrations. The biggest attraction this year was more than 2,000 shimmering candles on the park stones at night. CLAIR Sydney ran a booth to promote Japanese tourism, in particular Nara city. This event confirmed our belief that there is a strong sister city relationship and we hope that sister city exchanges between the two cities will continue to flourish.
