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    Cherry Blossom Festival

    Location: Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: Early April 2011

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

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    Hanayu Festival

    Location: Misasa-cho, Tohaku-gun, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: 3 May 2011 to 4 May 2011

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

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    Yonago Gaina Festival

    Location: Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: 30 July 2011 to 31 July 2011

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

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    Kurayoshi Utsubuki Festival

    Location: Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: 6 August and 7 August 2011

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

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    Tottori Shan-Shan Festival

    Location: Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: 6 August 2011 to 15 August 2011

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

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    Aofushigaki Ritual

    Location: Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture

    Dates: Early April 2011

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

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    Washihara Hachimangu Festival (Yabusame Ritual)

    Location: Tsuwano-cho, Kanoashi-gun, Shimane Prefecture

    Dates: Early April 2011

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

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    Annual Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine Festival

    Location: Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture

    Dates: Mid-May 2011

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

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    Matsue Lakeside Festival Fireworks

    Location: Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture

    Dates: 6 August and 7 August 2011

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

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    Kamimukae Festival

    Location: Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture

    Date: 5 November 2011

    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...

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    Morotabune Ritual

    Location: Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture

    Date: 3 December 2011

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

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    Okayama Cherry Blossom Carnival

    Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: Early April 2011

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

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    Tsuyama Cherry Blossom Festival

    Location: Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: 1 April 2011 to 15 April 2011

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

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    Magic Garden, Korakuen

    Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: End of July 2011 to mid-August, beginning of October

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

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    Okayama Momotaro Festival

    Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: Early August 2011

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

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    Bizen Ceramics Festival

    Location: Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: 15 October 2011 to 16 October 2011

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

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    Achi Shrine Autumn Festival

    Location: Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture

    Dates: 15 October 2011 to 16 October 2011

    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...

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    Eyo Festival at Saidaiji Shrine

    Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

    Date: 19 February 2011

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

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    Flower Festival

    Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Dates: 3 May 2011 to 5 May 2011

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

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    Hiroshima Harborside Fireworks Display

    Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Date: 23 July 2011

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

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    Miyajima Fireworks Over the Sea

    Location: Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Date: 14 August 2011

    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...

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    Sake Festival

    Location: Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Dates: 9 October 2011 to 10 October 2011

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

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    Hiroshima Dreamination

    Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Dates: Mid-November 2011 to beginning of January 2012

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

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    Cormorant fishing at Kintaikyo Bridge

    Location: Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Dates: 1 June 2011 to 31 August 2011

    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...

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    Kanmon Strait Firework Display

    Location: Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Date: 13 August 2011

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

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    Shunan Winter Tree Festival

    Location: Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Dates: 1 December 2011 to 3 January 2012

    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...

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    “Mountain Burning” at Akiyoshidai

    Location: Mine City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Date: 20 February 2011

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

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    Bushclover and Camellia Festival

    Location: Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Dates: Mid-February to end of March 2011

    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...

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    Shimonoseki Strait Festival

    Location: Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Dates: 2 May 2011 to 4 May 2011

    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...

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    Yamaguchi Tanabata Lantern Festival

    Location: Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture

    Dates: 6 August and 7 August 2011

    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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    Daisen Summer Mountain Festival

    Location: Daisen-cho, Saihaku-gun, Tottori Prefecture

    Dates: 4 June 2011 to 5 June 2011

    Description pending...

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    Kaike Triathlon

    Location: Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture

    Date: 17 July 2011

    Description pending...

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    Hikimi-cho Iwami Kagura Festival

    Location: Hikimi, Hikimi-cho, Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture

    Date: 27 February 2011

    Description pending...

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    Port of Tomo Sea Bream Net Fishing

    Location: Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Dates: Beginning of May 2011 to end of May 2011

    Description pending...

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    Peace Message Paper Lantern Floating

    Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture

    Date: 6 August 2011

    Description pending...