Culture Kazahaya Traditional Arts Festival Anonymous The Furusato Kazahaya Traditional Arts Festival features vernacular arts that you probably haven't heard of before, but they ...
Culture Hamamatsu Kite Flying Festival 2025 Anonymous A festival during Golden week where kites are flown to celebrate the birth of a son.
Culture Makabe's Hina Doll Festival Elysse Hurtado Walking through the streets of Makabe is a little like hopping through time. But it is not only the architecture that inspir...
Culture Kajiki Spider Fighting Festival 2024 Laura Keating The townsfolk of Kajiki, a town in Aira City, Kagoshima, happily partake in a tradition which reaches back over four-hundred ...
Culture The Kokura Gion Festival 2024 Anonymous The Kokura Gion Festival is a frenzy of mid-summer community drumming in northern Kyushu. Get your taiko on!
Culture Tokyo International Film Festival Camille Dufour-Blain On the 23rd of October the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival officially started, which means it is now time for us to go...
Culture Seiryu-e Dragon Festival 2024 Febry Fawzi The Seiryu-e festival is held every spring and autumn near Kiyomizu-dera. The Seiryu or blue dragon is believed to be a guard...
Culture Ogawara Cherry Blossom Festival Andrew Kehoe Funaoka Castle Park is home to an awesome view of over 1000 cherry trees that line the Shiroishi river in the Ogawara area of...
6 Culture Azalea Festival, Nezu Shrine Nicole Bauer Nezu Shrine in Bunkyo-ku is always worth a visit, thanks to its wonderful historical buildings nestled down in the hilly land...
8 Culture Manjushage Festival in Koma Allan Murphy We went to Koma again on Saturday, September 21st 2013. It is one of those places that is easy to get to, relaxing and quiet ...