mikoshi
Kunchi: The major Japanese festival most Japanese people don’t know about
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Master Blaster
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- (COK • culture • dance • dragons • events • festivals • Kunchi • mikoshi • Nagasaki • Nagasaki City • Nagasaki Prefecture • Niwasaki Mawari • Okunchi • SNJO • Suwa Shrine • torimono)
What it’s really like to join a Japanese festival and carry a mikoshi around Tokyo for a day
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Oona McGee
Jun 14, 2019
We join the festivities at Suga Shrine, made famous as one of the real-life locations from the hit anime film Your Name.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • festivals • Japanese festivals • mikoshi • sightseeing • SNOJ • Tokyo • tourism • tradition • traditional Japan • travel)
Another festival season and summer is coming to an end. The dragonflies are out and the days are getting shorter, which means fall will soon be upon us.
But before the fireworks fizzle away and the festival food stalls have packed up for good this year, one area in Japan decided to go out with a bang and surprise festival-goers with superb portable shrine, or mikoshi, recreations of some of Japan’s most popular characters, including one famous red mobile suit from the anime classic Gundam.
- Japan
- (anime • festivals • floats • Japanese tradition • mikoshi • Mobile Suit Gundam • Shiobara Onsen • Tochigi Prefecture • Zaku)
The most crowded place in Tokyo? Might be the Kanda Matsuri festival, but it’s still awesome
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Casey Baseel
May 13, 2015
Even in a city as packed with people as Tokyo, some places, and times, are more crowded than others. So when and where can you find the largest, densest mass of humanity? Some would say the Yamanote loop line during the morning rush hour. Others would vote for Shibuya’s scramble crosswalk intersection on a Saturday night.
But before you go awarding the crown to either of those two candidates, take a look at the massive crowds that came out for the Kanda Matsuri festival last weekend.
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