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Wakayama Prefecture・Tanabe City
Kumano Hongu Taisha Grand Festival
Three days connecting Yunomine and Oyunohara through Kumano’s prayers
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Gifu Prefecture・Mino City
Mino Matsuri
A spring festival that brings color to town with cherry-blossom-pink flower mikoshi, dashi, and Niwaka
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Chiba Prefecture・Togane City
Togane Cherry Blossom Festival
A spring event to enjoy lakeside cherry blossoms and illuminated blossoms at night
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Miyagi Prefecture・Kurihara City
Kosako Ennen
A spring festival in Kurihara featuring traditional dances and a horseback performance
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Aichi Prefecture・Handa City
Okkawa Festival
The Okkawa festival, where 4 dashi guarding the mikoshi tackle steep slopes
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Fukushima Prefecture・Bandai Town
Funahiki Festival at Bandai Shrine
A spring festival in Bandai Town, where rice bales on a boat carry hopes for a good harvest
Niigata Prefecture・Minamiuonuma City
The custom of hadaka-oshi at Urasa Bishamondo
The prayers and fervor of Urasa, carried on through water purification and hadaka-oshi
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Tochigi Prefecture・Nikko City
Yunishigawa Onsen Kamakura Festival
A candlelit kamakura night brightens the snowy hot spring town
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Okayama Prefecture・Okayama City
Saidaiji Eyo
A 500-year-old Eyo contest for the shingi in the sacred darkness