Hikone Castle, located in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, attracts visitors from all over Japan in spring to see its beautiful cherry blossoms. However, it is at midnight, when everyone is asleep, that the castle is at its most bewitching and beautiful, emerging from the darkness through a four-minute exposure, embodying at the same time the profound beauty of the castle and the fragility of its instantaneous disappearance, just like the cherry blossoms.