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Kyoto's first festival of the New Year
Venue: Yasaka Shrine When: Jan 9th - Jan 10th 2018,  3:00pm - 8:00pm
From the 8th to the 12th of January, Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto will host the city's first major festival of the year, the Ebisu Festival. This is dedicated to Ebisu, called "Ebess...

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Activities and more with Airbnb
The delightful challenge travelers face when they arrive in Tokyo is choosing how to make the most of limited time. With a history spanning thousands of years, the city is full of things to explore. Airbnb aims to solve that conundrum.
The U.S.-based c...

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Where cherry trees blossom all year long
Sakuragi Shrine, founded in 851 by a member of the Fujiwara clan, is the oldest in Noda City. The shrine is well known for its gardens with cherry trees that bloom late and early, and for its many winter flowering cherry trees. Any time you vi...

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A look into the future
Even at my age I still enjoy a day at Disney, especially during the holidays. The pageantry is second to none. Yes, I can still take the rides laughing and screaming with the best of them.
This year we decided since we wanted to experience the nighttime firew...

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New Year's parade based on a legend
Venue: Shozoku Inari-jinja Shrine When: Dec 31st - Jan 1st 2018,  9:30am - 12:00am
Oji Shrine, located 5 minutes' walk from Oji Station, is one of the most important shrines of Tokyo, and is known for its New Year's parade based on an old legend.
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Be amazed by the spectacular show of lights
Winter season is here and one of Japan's best winter illuminations is Nabana No Sato, in Mie prefecture. Even though the annual illuminations have been ongoing annually for more than ten years, visitors are still mainly from within Japan, a...

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Overlooking Lake Tazawa is spectular Tazawako Ski Hill
Now that the first snow has fallen and some of the ski resorts are open, it's time to think about ski and snowboard. Tazawako Ski Resort has one of the best panoramas of any ski resorts in Tohoku if not Japan. It's overlooking be...

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Bi-annual expo showcasing manga
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight When: Dec 29th - Dec 31st 2017,  10:00am - 5:00pm
The Comic Market (Comiket) is a marketplace where individuals can offer their own self-produced creations to a community that appreciates and supports such creative personal activ...

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Traditional and modern examples of the doll making art
You can meet elegant court ladies, fierce warriors, sweetly smiling babies, shrine maidens, feudal lords, entertainers, and people in period dress in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City which is the home to a historical Doll Town.
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Feast your eyes on Odaiba's new Unicorn Gundam
Gundam fans and everyone else, rejoice. Odaiba's much-loved full-scale replica Gundam is back – even bigger and better than before. Say hello to the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam replica from the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn series. Parked in front ...

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