In July 2024, I visited Ai-mura, a Japanese-themed sky platform designed by ラパ (Rapa Tone), and occupying roughly a quarter of a Full region in area. At the time, I found the setting engaging and photogenic (see Ai-Mura – a Love Project in Second Life), although it has since closed.
More recently, towards the end of August 2025, I received an invitation from Grayson Ducrot to visit Oyasumi, Rapa’s latest design which, like Ai-mura, is operated under Rapa’s melodic.one Group. Now, to be honest, I had planned to visit Oyasumi a lot sooner after receiving Grayson’s invitation than this; but things being what they’ve been, it took a little longer to get to it than I’d hoped – so my apologies to Grayson and to Rapa for this.
As with Ai-mura, Oyasumi occupies a Full region using the Land Capacity bonus for such regions. However, unlike Ai Mura, Oyasumi occupies the entire ground level area of the region on which it sits. This has allowed Rapa to expand on the design I first witnessed at Ai-mura, folding into it a couple of small islands to the east of the region, one of which had restricted access and so I treated as off-limits to exploration.
The second of these islands didn’t have an obvious statement of privacy as restricted access, but did appear to be intentionally separated from the rest of the region’s primary land mass by a rocky curtain with no obvious means of navigation to it. As such, rather than risk trespassing on a private area, I kept clear of it.
It is also on the east side of main landmass that the setting’s Landing Point resides, right alongside a little tramway and its terminus platform. This gives the setting a feeling that one has just arrived on one of the trams, which is itself the first of several carry-overs from Ai-mura I found added a further level of attractiveness to Oyasumi.
Another such carry-over lay further south, but still on the eastern side of the region, where coastal decks and a pontoon of buildings and boat moorings, is home to a community of Maru Kado cats by u10 nitta (shiro0822), some of whom had also featured at Ai-mura within their own little village.
The presence of the trams and track, together with the cats and the general ruggedness within Oyasumi mark it clearly as Ai-mura’s spiritual descendant – but this is not to say it is merely an expanded copy; this is a place with a character all its own and its own beauty waiting to be discovered.
An example of this can be found towards the middle of the west side of the main landmass. Here, fed by a broad waterfall, is a pool of water forming an oval open-air osen.
This is actually one of the setting’s two music venues – Rapa herself being a Second Life DJ. It’s a genuinely delightful setting, the DJ stand sitting below the waterfalls, cushions set out atop the basalt columns scattered around the water’s edge for people listening to the music (or watch the local capybara!). A viewing platform on the far side of the water offers a little hideaway, whilst the bridge passing over the water offers further sitting suspended (or floating!) below it.
The bridge is part of a footpath leading around the land from the Landing point. Illuminated by chochin lanterns, this offers the best way to discover all of the setting’s secrets and points of interests as it winds its way past little shops, and a café, climbing and descending stone steps to pass around the setting’s other live event space in a wide meadow, and from there on down to the broad wooden bridge.
Across the bridge, the path continues on past a little bath-house and shrine before offering steps up to another, larger shrine and passage across a small field to the little neko setting mentioned above.
All of this is set within a lush landscape of trees, water features, places to sit, and lots of little touches which collectively add depth to the setting throughout. Some of the latter – like the small-town supermarket – might be a little unexpected in such a largely rural setting, but it doesn’t look in any way out-of-place.
In all, a rich and photogenic location, a place music lovers and explorers alike cannot help but appreciate; my thanks to Grayson for the suggestion to visit.
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- Oyasumi (rated Moderate)
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