JAPAN TRAVEL
Matsuri & Fushigi-ichi Cosplay Wonder Carnival
Venue: Yokogawa shotengai When: Sunday - Apr 28th 2019 ,  10:00am - 4:00pm
Located only a few minutes by train from Hiroshima station, a trip to Yokogawa is a fun place to visit, especially during its annual "Fushigi-Ichi" festival when ...

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Exciting! Explosive! Entertaining!
Venue: Tejikarao Shrine When: Saturday - Apr 13th 2019 ,  6:30pm - 9:10pm
I couldn’t wait for April to roll around this year so I could go to the Tejikara Fire Festival. It’s been going on for almost 300 years! When I first heard about it in Aug. 20...

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Experience The Samurai Spirit Through Horseback Archery
Venue: Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine When: Sunday - Apr 21st 2019 ,  1:00pm - 2:00pm
Experience a part of the Samurai warrior culture and spirit by viewing yabusame (horseback archery) in Kamakura. On the third Sunday of April, y...

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A grand battle of human-sized Japanese chess under 2,000 cherry blossoms — a unique event to see while traveling in northern Japan.
 Sakura Festival 2019 Dates: April 7- May 7; Ningen Shogi 2019 Dates: April 20 & 21
As the sakura trees gracefully bloom in Tendo, Yamagata Prefe...

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The festival of Matsuyama Castle with cherry blossom
Venue: Shinonome When: Apr 4th - Apr 7th 2019 ,  2:00pm - 4:00pm
The Matsuyama Spring Festival is held during the first weekend in April when the weather is usually just starting to get warm. If all is well, the cherry blossoms are...

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Celebrate the blossoms of the season
Venue: Komahongo, Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture 350-1251, Japan When: Apr 13th - Apr 14th 2019 ,  10:00am - 4:00pm
This festival was formerly known as the Nanohana Festival (菜の花まつり) as it is timed when the nanohana (rapeseed flowers) are in ful...

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A celebration of the beginning of spring
Venue: Kairakuen When: Feb 16th - Mar 31st 2019 ,  12:00am - 12:00am
Every year during the second last week of February, Mito’s Kairakuen plays host to the Mito Plum Festival. (See a great photo story on the festival here.) Thanks to its long ...

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Large display of antique doll sets in old Koshu house
Venue: Kanzo Yashiki When: Feb 11th - Apr 18th 2019 ,  10:00am - 4:30pm
On March 3rd Japan celebrates Hina Matsuri, also known as the Doll Festival or Girls’ Day. Elaborate sets of dolls representing the Imperial Court were tradit...

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Colorful kimono silks hanging above the water
Venue: Myoshoji River When: Feb 22nd - Feb 24th 2019 ,  10:00am - 5:00pm
 
Just around the corner of Takadanobaba and Ikebukuro, the neighborhood around Nakai station is a rather "ordinary" place for 362 days of the year. Around the e...

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Illuminated onsen town in Nikko
Venue: Yunishigawa Onsen When: Jan 26th - Mar 3rd 2019 ,  10:00am - 9:30pm
Each winter, the small onsen town of Yunishigawa, in Tochigi's Nikko area, transforms into a winter wonderland with hundreds of 'kamakura', or snow huts, on display.
 
These ran...

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