Hokkai Heso Festival
A festival where faces painted on bellies dance through Furano’s summer
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A festival where faces painted on bellies dance through Furano’s summer
A summer Gion festival connecting Takada and Naoetsu with mikoshi and dashi
Aso's prayers for a bountiful harvest, with mikoshi and Ota-uta songs winding through the green rice fields
A dashi sways to festival music as it dances through Higashimachi, in a traditional event passed down on the Oki Islands
A summer ritual that brings Tsuwano's streets to life with white heron dances and music
A Gion festival carrying on Yamaguchi's summer traditions, with the Sagi no Mai and mikoshi
A Hita summer festival where lantern-lit dashi floats and music parade through the streets
Dance and drums parade around the port, and fireworks bloom in the summer sky over Otaru
Nagayama’s summer festival, illuminated by andon dashi and taiko drums