Hiroshima Toukasan Yukata Festival
Hiroshima Toukasan Matsuri is a yukata festival. Yukata are the light and often bright kimonos worn by both men and women in Japan during the warm summer months. The Toukasan Festival marks the …
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Kanazawa Hyakumangoku Festival
One of Kanazawa's top annual festivals, held over three days.
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Tohoku Jibiiru (Craft Beer) Festival
Taking place in Akita City, this beer festival features brewers from the northern part of Honshu. Brewers in attendance include North Island from Hokkaido, Iwate-kura, Tazawa-ko and the host …
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Horikawa Festival
The two days of the Horikawa festival feature quite different but equally impressive processions. Schedule Day one features an after-dark procession with taiko drums accompanying a parade of …
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Kashima Mud Gatalympics
If you’re a bit puzzled what a ‘Gatalympics’ might be then an easier way to think of this festival is ‘fun with mud’. The event takes place on the mudflats on the …
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Chagu Chagu Umakko Horse Festival
Follow along a parade of horses as they trot from shrine to shrine in Morioka.
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Hiroshima Flower Festival
Don’t let the name fool you, the Hiroshima Flower Festival is a lot more than a simple flower show. Across multiple venues through the city, there will be stage performances, a …
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Izawanomiya Otaue Rice Festival
The Izawanomiya Otaue Festival takes place on June 24 each year at Izawanomiya (Izawa Shrine) — one of the 123 shinto shrines that makes up the giant Ise Grand Shrine complex in Mie …
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Miyako no Nigiwai
See dancers from all five of Kyoto's hanamachi (geisha districts) on stage together.
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Himeji Yukata Festival
Join the locals dressed in yukata (light cotton summer robes) and hit the food stalls.
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Aizen Festival
The Aizen Festival is touted as the first major summer festival in Osaka of the year. Along with the Tenjin Festival and the Sumiyoshi Festival, it’s also known as one of the three big …
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