This civic festival has been held annually in Ube City on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea since 1933.
The festival features a parade, a main stage, a street stage, a gourmet zone and a business and study area. The main festival takes place on Sunday with a “pre-festival” in the evening on the preceeding Saturday.
As a preventative measure against the spread of COVID-19, this event has been cancelled for 2020. On the last Sunday of May each year, Higashiomi in Shiga Prefecture hosts a festival in which enormous traditional kites are hauled into the […]
As a preventative measure against the spread of COVID-19, this event has been cancelled for 2020. You may not know what shibazakura is, but you definitely want to see it. Japan is an anthophile’s dream: chrysanthemums, camellias, wisteria and the […]
As a preventative measure against the spread of COVID-19, this event has been cancelled for 2020. Walk a mile in Japan and you’ll come across another regional food specialty you just have to try. Running concurrently with the Fuji Shibazakura […]
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