Culture Furukawa Festival 2025 Veronica Carnevale The Furukawa Festival, or Furukawa Matsuri, is an annual event of Hida Furukawa’s Kata Wakamiya Shrine. During the two-day sp...
Culture Slug Festival 2025 Justin Dart A festival in rural Nakatsugawa dedicated to a monk and a mystery of nature on the anniversary of a death connected to forbid...
Culture Tejikara Summer Fire Festival 2025 Hessel The Tejikara Summer Fire Festival is an event held every second Sunday of August along the banks of the Nagara River in Gifu.
Culture Sakurayama Wind Chime Festival 2025 Kim Bergström During summer, Takayama’s historic Sakurayama Hachiman Shrine comes alive with the gentle sounds of the Sakurayama Wind Chime...
Culture Gujo Odori 2025 Yuka Takada Gujo Odori is Japan's largest and one of the most famous dance festivals lasting thirty-two nights, three of which have danci...
Culture Suimu Shrine Festival 2025 Justin Dart Suimu Shrine Festival has those of unlucky ages fight to push out the bad spirits that plague those ages.
Gifu Beer Festival 2025 Kim Bergström Held annually since 2015, the Gifu Beer Festival aims to promote regional revitalization through good brews and good food.
Culture Fox Wedding Festival 2025 Japan Travel The unique Fox Wedding Festival (Kitsune-bi Matsuri) tells the revival of fairy-tale “Sunshower” and is held on the 4th Satur...
Culture Takayama Autumn Festival 2025 Nadiah Endarwy A lot of hard work goes into the Takayama Autumn Festival, from the costumes, to music, to choreography to the props. Grab yo...
Culture Moving of the Seto Canal Carp 2025 Japan Travel Hida embraces the arrival of winter by organizing an event to remove carp from the canal. The labor-intensive and—perhaps tim...
