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Yujima Tenjin – Festival Kids 27 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
One of the first orders of the day on any matsuri or festival day is to make sure the kids are doing their part for the communtiy and the local gods! Most festivals have special teams of volunteers ga...
Minamikoshigaya Awaodori Stage 26 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
Yesterday I forewent my usual visit to the second day of the Koenji Awaodori or the Otsuka Awaodori and instead went up to Minamikoshigaya in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo. I don’t get many chance...
Koenji Awaodori 2013 Festival 25 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
This weekend is heaven for Awaodori fans, not quite like being down in Tokushima and seeing the real thing but nevertheless, I think there must be something up to 25 000 dancers and musicians taking p...
Taiko Drummers – Yushima Tenjin 24 Aug 2013 | 09:47 am
Just at the start of this year I blogged about a chance walk in on a performance by the fantastic taiko group Yushima Tenjin Shiraume Taiko group (湯島天神白梅太鼓), and a few months ago I had the chance to s...
Kogashi Festival – Atami 23 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
If you visited Atami City far to the south west of Tokyo you might have seen this year’s Kogashi festival. I missed it this year but I went there last year. I posted yesterday about preparing and wait...
Odaiba Dream Bridge 23 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
One of the most distinctly non-Japanese areas of Tokyo is the huge Odaiba district, consisting mostly of land reclaimed in the late 20th century directly on the sea bed of Tokyo Bay. It was built so q...
Hachioji Matsuri – Preparing the Parade 22 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
The bigger the town, the bigger the festival, and the bigger the festival the bigger the parade! As anyone who has been part of a large ceremony knows, there is a lot of waiting involved! I walked aro...
More Nebuta Festival – Tachikawa 21 Aug 2013 | 09:22 am
The Three day Nebuta festival each year takes place after dark so that you can really enjoy the huge paper sculptures paraded through town lit up from inside. It also makes it very dark and difficult ...
Anamori Inari Shrine – Haneda 20 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
One of the three shrines in Tokyo’s Haneda district is the Anamori Inari Shrine (穴守稲荷神社), near the station of the same name on the Keikyu Airport Line. Together they make up the Haneda Shrine itself. ...
Tachikawa Nebuta Festival 19 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
Last weekend in the town of Nishikawa in western Tokyo saw the beautiful and colorful Nebuta Matsuri pay a visit from the northern Aomori prefecture. The nebuta are massive paper sculptures lit from w...
