Over 100 Years Night See Kanto

【UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage】The highlights of the Chichibu Yomatsuri are the floats and the fireworks. The six floats, representing each...

Over 100 Years All Day Join Kanto

One hundred dishes of Shinsen (Sake and food offered to the deities) comprised of ingredients from the sea, river, mountains...

Over 1000 Years Night See Chubu

There are roughly 400 shrines throughout Japan that contain the name Akiha.  The main Akihasan Hongu Akiha Shrine is the...

Afternoon See Tokyo

By burning the good-luck charms you have used the past year in a holy flame and bathing in the heat...

Over 100 Years Afternoon Join Kanto

During the New Year holiday in Japan, there is a custom of decorating one's front door way with a pine...

Over 400 Years All Day See Kanto

The Hatsuichi Matsuri of Maebashi City is a nostalgic tradition that has been continued since the early 1600's. Over 60...

Over 100 Years Morning Join Kansai

Ebisu-sama is the Japanese deity that brings good fortune. Revered for ages by fisherman and merchants, shrines worshipping this god...

Over 400 Years Afternoon Join Hokuriku

Held at Yakushido on the far end of a hot spring street of snowy Niigata Prefecture, this unique festival celebrates...

All Day See Okinawa

Spring season in Okinawa arrives early in comparison to the Honshu (main island) of Japan where cherry blossoms usually bloom...

Caution ! See Kansai

Yamayaki is an event that sets fire to Mount Wakakusa. The flame engulfs the entire mountain, and then rises up...