Gion Matsuri, Kyoto: a thousand-year-old tradition and the most famous matsuri Kyoto's Gion Matsuri, a star among Japanese ...

Four festivals held in different parts of central Japan provide glimpses into Japanese ... Kodō, the country’s most famous taiko group, has been playing around the world since 1981, spending ...

Morioka is perhaps most famous for its noodle-eating challenge and a popular summer festival. But inside its train station awaits one of Japan’s most curious treasures. A spectacle to get the ...

Hokkaido Governor Naomichi Suzuki, at the opening ceremony of the festival, mentioned the record-level snowfalls that were hitting other areas of Japan’s northernmost main island on Feb. 4.

One of Japan’s largest outdoor music festivals will be held in September instead of August from now on because summer temperatures are unbearable. The organizer of the Rock in Japan Festival ...