Over 100 Years All Day Join Kanto

The Urayasu Sanja Reitaisai is a regular joint festival of three shrines in Urayasu City, Seiryu, Toyouke, and Inari Shrine...

Over 100 Years Afternoon See Kyushu

"Tashiro-no Furyu" is a traditional event that takes place in Tashiro, Kurogi-machi in Yame City, located in the southern parts...

Night Join Hokuriku

The Echigo Yuzawa Onsen Snow Festival is held on a local ski slope just as the ski season is coming...

Over 100 Years Caution ! All Day See Tohoku

In March, before the approaching Spring, at the port city home to Shiogama Shrine, the Hote Matsuri is solemnly held...

Afternoon Join Chubu

The main eye catcher of this festival—quite possibly one of the rarest festivals out there—is the wooden male phallus known...

Over 1000 Years Afternoon See Kansai

This festival gets its name, Ohashiri ("to run") from the way the omikoshi(portable shrine), is carried; in a way that...

Over 400 Years All Day See Chubu

【UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage】Takayama City, residing in the Hida region in northern Gifu Prefecture, is often referred to as Hidatakayama...

Over 400 Years Afternoon See Tokyo

The Sanja Matsuri is an annual festival of Asakusa Shrine, located in Taito ward of Tokyo. It is said to...

Over 400 Years See Kyushu

Seppetobe is a 400 year-old local rice-planting festival. Young men covered in mud drinking imo-shochu (distilled sake brewed from potatoes)...

Over 100 Years Afternoon Join Chubu

This festival has roughly 300 years of history, dating back to the Edo period. A large river called Shinanogawa runs...

Over 1000 Years All Day See Kansai

【UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage】Gion Matsuri is an annual festival of the Yasaka Shrine located in Higashiyama of Kyoto, and is...

Over 100 Years Afternoon See Kanto

Narita Gion Festival began when the people of the town started celebrating along with Naritasan Shinsho-ji temple's Narita Gion-e event...

Over 100 Years Caution ! Night See Hokuriku

Abare Matsuri is a fierce festival registered as Ishikawa Prefecture's intangible folk cultural asset. The celebration signifies the arrival of...

Over 400 Years All Day See Hokuriku

Held annually on July 6th (eve festival) and 7th (main festival) at the Haguro Shrine, the Murakami-taisai is an intangible folk cultural...

Over 1000 Years Night Chubu

Arei Jinja is an ancient shrine with a history of over 1,300 years. The Arei Jinja Reitaisai is a Senza-sai—a...

Afternoon See Tohoku

Shiogama Minato Matsuri began right after the ending of the Second World War in hopes of reviving the industry and...

Over 100 Years Afternoon See Kansai

Nachi no Ogi Matsuri is the grand annual festival of Kumano Nachi Taisha Shrine. When Emperor Jimmu (the founding emperor...

Over 100 Years Morning See Kanto

On a sunny summer Marine Day (national holiday), many portable mikoshi shrines gather at the beautiful Nishihama beach on the...

Over 100 Years All Day Join Hokuriku

The Iida Toroyama Matsuri is a Kasuga Shrine ritual held in Iida, Suzu City, located on the Noto Peninsula of...

Over 400 Years Morning Join Chugoku Shikoku

When it first began, Ouchi Hiroyo, the man in charge of Yamaguchi, was modeling the city after Kyoto, and when...