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Young couple in yukata taking photos of matsuri parade

Tokushima, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024 Soodori. All of performers wear traditional costumes, dance and sing as they parade through the outdoor stage at night.

TTobata Gion Oyamakasa, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, was held on July 23rd in Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Close-up of people running with the Yamakasa on their shoulders.

A young beautiful Japanese woman in traditional festival costume portrait.

Kyoto, Japan - October 22, 2012: Princess Kazu-no-miya japanese ladies and servant of the Edo period at the Kyoto Gyoen national garden during Jidai Matsuri festivall. Also called the Festival of Ages it is a traditional festival celebrated every 22 of October since 1895 to conmemorate the anniversary of the foundation of Kyoto. It is a large parade with over two thousand people dressed in accurate costumes of the japanese history that spans 1100 years when Kyoto was Japan capital and also represents well important historic figures of the past. The parade goes from the Imperial Palace to the Heian Shrine. Geishas and maikos take an important role in the festival when they dress up and take the role of important characters of the past.

A large number of visitors and gorgeous rakes come to buy lucky rakes at the year-end rooster market at Hanazono Shrine, where the god of commerce is enshrined, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, on November 22, 2023.

Japanese Yukata couple enjoy watching parade

Tokushima Prefecture, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024. Performers wear traditional obon costumes, dance and sing as they parade through the streets.

Nara, Japan - April 7, 2019 : Japanese lanterns at Kashihara Shrine

$Tokyo, Japan-August 27, 2023:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.$

Kagawa, Japan - July 15 2023: Japanese performers dancing in the famous Yosakoi Festival. Yosakoi is a unique style of Japanese dance event.

Tokyo, Japan, May 5th, Display of lampions with calligraphy

Tokyo, Japan - May, 20, 2023: The Sanja Matsuri festival is one of the largest festival in Japan. It lasts for 3 days in honor of the three men that stablished and founded the Sensō-ji Temple and Asakusa-Jinja shrine.

Tokushima, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024. Performers wear traditional obon costumes, dance and sing in a formation as they parade through the outdoor stage at night.

Young female friends in traditional Japanese matsuri clothing buying apricot candy on street

Kyoto, Japan - July 23, 2019: Ofunehoko float and people playing Gion bayashi music, passing Nishiki Ichiba market, heading for Otabisho for Hiyori Kagura during Gion matsuri festival

04 August 2022, Morioka, JP. Sansa Festival. Japanese female performers dance down a city street.

$Tokyo, Japan-August 27, 2022:\nHarajuku-Omotesando Genki Matsuri Super Yosakoi was held in Harajuku and Yoyogi Park area, Tokyo, on the last weekend of August this year, after 2 years' absence due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Men and women, young and old, performed very vibrant dancing in Super Yosakoi Parade..\nYosakoi is one of the most popular dance festivals in Japan, which originated in Kochi City, Shikoku Island, in 1954, and takes place for four days, including the eve of festival, from August 9 to 12 each year. Ever since, Yosakoi has become popular throughout Japan and Yosakoi festivals are now held all over throughout the year.$

$Naha City, Japan - October 28, 2012: A line of performers wearing a unique, \$

Kyoto, Japan - October 12, 2023: Rows of multiple yellow Japanese paper lanterns glowing in the famous Nishiki Market food street in Kyoto, Japan.

Japanese lanterns in Chiang Mai Festival Dance - Bon Odori exchange Lanna - Japan

Colorful lanterns adorned with Japanese characters cast a warm glow in a traditional dining setting. The atmosphere is inviting, perfect for enjoying local cuisine.

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