Saikū Cultural Art Festival
Hot air balloons, a giant moon, and traditional performances from the past — welcome to the Saikū Cultural Art Festival.
Hot air balloons, a giant moon, and traditional performances from the past — welcome to the Saikū Cultural Art Festival.
This bizarre New Year's Eve ritual, dating back to the Edo period, lets participants shout away their frustrations while trekking to the temple summit.
Want to ensure peace and prosperity for the new year? You might have to stay up all night.
On the first two days of the year, many flock to Takasaki to buy daruma dolls.
The whole of USJ will get a blanket of festive fun. Expect cheery decorations and a massive show under the impressive 30-meter-tall glowing Christmas tree.
Daruma dolls are set alight in a traditional Japanese festival.
Join the festive atmosphere of Osaka’s Toka Ebisu Festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine, where locals gather to pray for wealth and success while enjoying street food and lively parades.
Join in this noisy and raucous festival as people knock on wooden boards to get the attention of a lucky God.
Heian Shrine and NAKED create a colorful experience for those wanting to worship at night.
Put some heat into your winter and New Year with this steamy (in more ways than one!) festival.
See dozens of loincloth-clad men and boys doused in very cold water as they compete in teams for banknotes.
Watch men get tossed into snow and behold the messy ash-smearing chaos.
Teams race to be the first to reach the shrine and onlookers also push to touch the special charms of this shrine.
A traditional Japanese New Years' festival to bring you some luck.
Warm up a chilly night with candlelight and your favorite songs from Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi.
See an entire mountainside in Nara go up in flames as fireworks are launched behind it.
An amazing chance to see a remote, snow-covered thatched village illuminated with hundreds of lanterns.