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A cherry blossom festival is held along the Fukurogawa River. There are many stage events...

This well-known event is held in Misasayakushi. Many different events are held in this hot springs resort area...

"It's a festival! Let's go! Let's watch! Let's have fun!" In the Yonago dialect, "gaina" means...

The first day of this festival features portable shrines carried by women, ox demons, and hiten WASSO...

The origin of the Shan-Shan Festival was the "Tottori Festival", started in 1961 and held in combination with the annual Hijiri Shrine...

The Miho Shrine is dedicated to the god Kotoshironushi (otherwise known as Ebisu)...

The yabusame (archery on horseback) ritual held in Tsuwano follows the same tradition...

The annual Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine Festival is held every year on 14 May. It was moved to May during the Meiji Era...

The Matsue Lakeside Festival fireworks display is held in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture on the first Saturday and Sunday of August each year...

From the 10th to the 17th of the 10th month by the lunar calendar, a series of events including a ritual to welcome the gods (kamimukae) and a festival to celebrate their presence (kamiari) is held at the Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine...

This is another ritual performed at the Miho Shrine. Like the Aofushigaki Ritual, it relates to the myth recounted in the Kojiki...

The cherry blossoms on the Asahigawa River embankment in Korakuen-higashi are well-known throughout Japan...

This festival is held at one of the most famous sites in western Japan counted among the 100 Best Cherry Blossom Sites in Japan...

Magic Garden in Korakuen is a major midsummer event where Korakuen is illuminated with a magical atmosphere...

The Okayama Momotaro Festival features a spectacular display of approximately 4000 fireworks along the Asahigawa River in the center of the city...

The Bizen Ceramics Festival is held on the weekend of the third Sunday of October every year in the Inbe district of Bizen...

On the first day, a grand festival to thank the shrine's god for his favors is held, and the god's spirit is transferred to a portable shrine, which makes a stately progress around his worshippers' local district...

This festival is said to have begun in the Eisei Period (1504-21), when the lucky charms that were given out at the shrine...

The Hiroshima Flower Festival was first held in 1977...

This massive fireworks display is held in the fragrant sea air of Hiroshima Bay, along the Seto Inland Sea...

This is one of the grandest events to color the summer nights of Miyajima, in which fireworks are launched 400 m offshore above the grand gate of Itsukushima Shrine...

This is a sake-themed festival held in Saijo, a sake brewing center...

This event sees the illumination of all of central Hiroshima, including Peace Boulevard and Alice Garden...

Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method with a history going back some 400 years. In this method, a beacon-fire is lit in the prow of a small flat-bottomed boat...

The Kanmon Strait Firework Display is an event that straddles both shores of the Kanmon Strait...

During this festival the trees lining the streets from in front of the station down along Miyuki-dori are decorated in a rainbow of LEDs...

This "mountain burning" (yamayaki) event involves burning away the withered wintertime vegetation on the grassland of the Akiyoshidai plateau...

Mt. Kasayama is Japan's smallest volcano, with an elevation of 112 meters. It forms an "island" that rises out of the Japan Sea and is joined to the land by a narrow isthmus...

This festival rich in historical atmosphere is based on the historic saga of the Genji and Heike clans, which unfolded with the Kanmon Strait as its stage...

A festival with a long history, believed to have begun in the Muromachi Era, when Duke Ouchi lit tall lanterns mounted on small bamboos on the night of the Tanabata (Star) Festival...

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