Yushima Tenjin Shrine's Plum Blossom Festival (Ume Matsuri)
Yushima Tenmangu, or Yushima Tenjin as it's called, is one of many Shinto shrines in Japan. Enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, a prominent scholar and politician his death, was deified. You can see many students visiting the shrine to...
Tanabata - the Star Festival
Tanabata (七夕) is one of Japan’s five traditional festivals (五節句 gosekku) and is usually celebrated on July 7, or in other areas, on the seventh day of the seventh month based on the lunar calendar, which could in some years fall on the beginning of August. It is...
Hinamatsuri (雛祭り) is a festival for girls held on March 3. Tiered platforms for hina ningyō (雛人形, hina dolls) are set up at home. Families celebrate with a meal, eating hishimochi (菱餅), sweet diamond-shaped rice cakes in pink, white, and green layers, hina-arare (雛あられ), small crisps flavoured...
Setsubun is a traditional ceremony to dispel demons, usually observed on 3 February. The practice of scattering beans (豆撒き mamemaki) to drive away demons is one of some magical rites performed to ward off evil.
The word setsubun (節分) originally referred to the eve of the first day of any of...
Japan has thirteen public holidays (marked with ▲) and a lot of nation-wide as well as local festivals. Find a list of the public holidays and the most common nation-wide festivals below.
In 1998 and 2001 Japan amended its laws to move some public holidays in Japan to Mondays, creating a...
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