Welcome to the site.
This site mainly introduces festivals featuring masked performers that can be seen in Japan, as well as historic townscapes well worth visiting. For more details, please refer to the ‘Introduction’ and ‘how to use this site’ sections. If you’ve already decided where you’d like to go, start by searching within each area. If you’ve set a date, click on the relevant month using the tags (at the bottom of this page). Even if you haven’t decided on anything yet, there’s plenty to enjoy. Have a wonderful trip.
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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Date: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, ending on the first … 続きを読む: Ono Minato Shrine Festival: A Unique Kanazawa Experience - 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