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

A traditional festival featuring decorative floats has opened in the central Japanese prefecture of Gifu. The Furukawa Festival in Hida City is one of the "Yama, Hoko, Yatai float festivals in ...

TOKYO: A shrine in Japan that hosts a “naked man ... not be allowed to participate in the crescendo of the festival that it is most famous for – a rough-and-tumble scrum in which men ...