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
New Post
- Report~Seeing an Oni in the Suburbs of Kyoto
Day; The third Saturday in April Location; Hoshakuji-te… 続きを読む: Report~Seeing an Oni in the Suburbs of Kyoto - Report; Simple, powerful Oni dance~at Hata Choukoji-temple
Date; Every year on May 5 Location; Hata Chokouji-templ… 続きを読む: Report; Simple, powerful Oni dance~at Hata Choukoji-temple - a rare Buddhist dance~Itozaki of Etizen coastBase data Date：18th April Every two years (odd-numbered… 続きを読む: a rare Buddhist dance~Itozaki of Etizen coast
- Report~The king descends : No Hakusan Shrine’s Unique festival
Date：24 April every year. Location：7238 Oaza No, Itoiga… 続きを読む: Report~The king descends : No Hakusan Shrine’s Unique festival - Masked characters to be seen during the early summer holidays
Golden Week (early-May holiday season in Japan) The che… 続きを読む: Masked characters to be seen during the early summer holidays