Yoban-gai Matsuri
A summer shopping-district festival that fills Sapporo’s streets with mikoshi and events
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A summer shopping-district festival that fills Sapporo’s streets with mikoshi and events
An early-summer festival where flowers and high school students’ creativity meet in Odori Park
A traditional summer festival in Akkeshi, where dashi and lion dances come together
A summer festival where Tanabata lights shimmer across Otaru’s historic streets
An Okhotsk summer festival showcasing Esashi’s seafood and dance
A festival where kiriko floats showered in sparks and mikoshi race through Uetsu
Kashima fireworks light up the night sky and lake at Kitaura
A fantastical night of prayer, with Lake Shikaribetsu’s legend and parent and child white snakes dancing
An Owari tradition of driving away pests, praying for a good rice harvest with fire and drums