This site is divided into three parts. The first is “Introduction” and “how to use this sight”.
The second part is “Area” which divides Japan into 6 areas and introduces each area’s festivals, towns to visit, etc.
The third part is “Reference“. This section will help you to understand more deeply about the festival performances and other aspects of the festival. Japan mythology“, “easy made Japanese history” and “What’s Kagura?”
Area
Hokkaido and Tohoku region
Hokkaido/ Aomori/ Iwate / Akita/ Miyagi/ Yamagata/ Fukushima
Kanto region
Tokyo/ Gunma/ Tochigi/ Ibaraki/ Saitama/ Chiba/ Kanagawa
Chubu region
Shizuoka/ Yamanashi/ Aichi/ Gifu/ Toyama/ Ishikawa/ Fukui/ Niigata/ Nagano
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