Suwa Onbashira Festival
Japan's most dangerous festival — several participants don't make it back home...
Japan's most dangerous festival — several participants don't make it back home...
Relive the days when Nara was the capital of Japan. Expect re-enactments, a noble banquet, parades, and more.
This Nara festival features beautiful processions, rituals, and eventually a game of kemari.
The Kawanishi Genji Festival celebrates a Japanese literary classic-"Tale of Genji".
The Takayama Spring Festival is one of Japan's most famous festivals.
Join this annual celebration of Tagata Shrine in Aichi and promote all things phallic.
Attend a parade that features a portable shrine topped with a tiger and traditional Japanese instruments.
Head to Nagasaki Lantern Festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
A smaller, but unique festival in Osaka for fans of traditional Japanese culture
Another one of Japan's renowned "naked" festivals (sort of).
Magical, candle-lit hollowed out snow mounds, rice wine, and daifuku (rice cakes). What's not to love?
A quaint snow festival complete with snow sculptures and entertainment.
This unique festival gets its name from the straw coats worn by the participants.
Tadami has an abundance of snow, from which participants carve giant monuments and statues.
A festival in which locals dress up as demons and scare the bejesus out of young children.
An amazing chance to see a remote, snow-covered thatched village illuminated with hundreds of lanterns.
Instead of bean-throwing, you toss joss sticks into a fire at this traditional Setsubun Festival.