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Festivals

Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals 

New Year In Hiroshima

December 28, 2018January 6, 2019 Paul Walsh 5438 Views 2 Comments new year, Winter

New Year is undoubtedly Japan’s most important – and longest – festival. However, in most of the country, you’ll disappointed

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Winter Illuminations in Hiroshima

November 23, 2018February 8, 2019 Paul Walsh 7558 Views 0 Comment Illuminations, Winter

Large scale illuminations have become a new winter tradition in Japan. Held all over the country, they certainly brighten up

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Directors Talk Teaching, Collaboration & Inspiration

September 1, 2018October 12, 2018 jjwalsh 806 Views 0 Comment 2018 Hiroshima Animation Festival

Stand-out films at the festival for me were the ones with original techniques and story-lines, ones that would stay with

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Pirate night on Innoshima: The Suigun Fire Festival

August 31, 2018September 3, 2018 GetHiroshima 661 Views 0 Comment shimanami kaido, suigun

Finish of your summer at a spectacular celebration of samurai pirate culture on the beach.

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Animation as Lesson in Patience, Focus & Dedication

August 27, 2018October 12, 2018 jjwalsh 634 Views 0 Comment 2018 Hiroshima Animation Festival

Another amazing day of insights from artists, directors and story-tellers on how they pursue and find inspiration to create their

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Summer Fireworks Festival Guide

June 15, 2018August 27, 2018 Paul Walsh 5797 Views 0 Comment Fireworks, Summer

The summer is long, hot and usually pretty sticky. Beat (or at least embrace) the heat in the way that

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Flower Festival Yosakoi Dance Parade 2018

May 6, 2018August 27, 2018 jjwalsh 1161 Views 0 Comment 2018, flower festival, yosakoi

It was beautiful weather for the Yosakoi dance parade on Children’s Day – May 5th. As always, it was an

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The Saigoku Kaido in Shareo

March 1, 2018March 14, 2018 Sponsored post 1221 Views 0 Comment History

The Saigoku Kaido (Saigoku Route/Way/Road), was the main overland thoroughfare between Kyushu and Kyoto between from the 8th century up

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Setsubun: demons, beans, fish heads, sushi and screaming children

February 1, 2018February 3, 2018 Paul Walsh 3893 Views 1 Comment Setsubun, Winter

Although temperatures in early February may make it hard to believe, Setsubun marks the coming of spring. On February 3,

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Oyster Festivals 2019

January 4, 2018January 27, 2019 GetHiroshima 9037 Views 0 Comment oysters

Yes, the New Year holidays are done and that time of year is now upon us. Yes, it’s oyster season! From

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Tondo Matsuri

January 3, 2018January 7, 2019 jjwalsh 4166 Views 0 Comment new year, tondo, Winter

Ever wonder what everyone does with all those New Year arrows, rakes, daruma and that they buy at shrines every

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Nanakusa-no-sekku

December 5, 2017January 7, 2019 Paul Walsh 2827 Views 0 Comment new year, Winter

Nanakusa-no-sekku [七草の節句] or the “the feast of seven herbs” is a day on which people in Japan customarily eat a

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Ebessan - Ebisu Festival in Hiroshima
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Ebisu Taisai Festival

November 17, 2017November 16, 2018 Paul Walsh 1671 Views 0 Comment Autumn, Festival, November

Just before winter takes hold, Hiroshima’s city center is taken over by one more colorful festival, all about good fortune,

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Autumn moon-viewing at Shukkei-en Garden

October 5, 2017October 25, 2017 Paul Walsh 2285 Views 0 Comment

Scenes from the annual celebratory kangetsu-sai autumn moon-viewing tea ceremonies at Hiroshima’s Shukkei-en Garden.

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Live music, handicrafts and cows!

September 12, 2017September 26, 2017 Steve Jarvis 1348 Views 0 Comment

Steve Jarvis introduces a different kind of countryside fair in eastern Hiroshima prefecture.

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2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival

August 27, 2017October 3, 2017 GetHiroshima 1555 Views 0 Comment Fireworks, Summer

Some of our favorite captures of the 2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival.

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Views of the Miyoshi Fireworks

August 22, 2017August 22, 2017 GetHiroshima 1044 Views 0 Comment Fireworks, Summer

A compilation of some of the Instagrams of the 2017 Miyoshi City Fireworks display held on August 19 that caught

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August 6, 2017 Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2017October 3, 2017 jjwalsh 2399 Views 0 Comment August 6, Memorial Ceremony, peace park

72 years ago today, US forces dropped a nuclear bomb on the people living, working and studying in Hiroshima. The

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Ji-no-hi matsuri giant umbrella festival in Ohnan in Shimane, Japan
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Ji-no-hi Matsuri Giant Umbrella Festival in Ohnan

May 15, 2017August 27, 2018 Paul Walsh 2149 Views 0 Comment Ohnan, Shimane

The main event of this two day festival is groups of locals charging up and down a narrow street with

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750,000 tulips at Sera Kogen Farm

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017 GetHiroshima 2410 Views 0 Comment

The tulip fileds at Sera Kogen Farm are currently at their best. Many people took advantage of the good weather

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Ujina minato festa hiroshima port festival
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Ujina Port Minato Festa

March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 Paul Walsh 1614 Views 0 Comment Ujina

This annual festival in the park in front of Hiroshima Port in Ujina is held early in March over two

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Snowbound tondo festival at Gokoku Shrine, Hiroshima
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Snowy Tondo Festival at Gokoku Shrine

January 17, 2017February 28, 2017 jjwalsh 1935 Views 0 Comment new year, Winter

Gokoku Shrine’s annual tondo bonfire festival coincided with the biggest snowfall to hit the city in a generation.

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Sorasaya Shrine tondo bonfire festival in Hiroshima, Japan
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Sorasaya Shrine Tondo Festival

January 6, 2017January 17, 2017 Paul Walsh 2208 Views 0 Comment new year, tondo, Winter

This tondo festival in Honkawa is a nice mix of shrine rite and neighborhood event.

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Christmas Illuminations at Hiroshima Botanical Gardens

December 20, 2016January 6, 2017 Paul Walsh 2764 Views 0 Comment Christmas, Illuminations, Winter

The annual “Flower and Light Pageant” illuminations at Hiroshima City Botanical Gardens are some the most Christmassy in the area.

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zombies on the streetcar at yokogawa zombie night in hiroshima
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Yokogawa Zombie Night

October 30, 2016November 8, 2016 GetHiroshima 1773 Views 0 Comment Halloween

Zombie fun in Yokogawa at the second Zombie Night via he wonder of Instagram. The horror continues from 12 noon

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Kirikushi Okangensan

July 15, 2016September 10, 2016 Paul Walsh 2224 Views 0 Comment Etajima, Summer

There are several local festivals linked to Itsukushima’s annual Kangensai rituals. One of these is the Kirikushi Okangensan festival. Kirikushi

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Tanabata Illuminations at Shukkei-en

July 6, 2016July 25, 2016 Paul Walsh 2672 Views 0 Comment Shukkei-en, Summer, tanabata

For a week up until the annual tanabata star festival on July 7, Shukkei-en Garden created a blue milky way out

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Yukata de Bon Dance

June 5, 2016January 7, 2019 GetHiroshima 2650 Views 0 Comment bon dance, Tōkasan, yukata

Although the focus of Hiroshima city’s most festive festival, the 3-day Tōkasan “Yukata” Festival, is ostensibly Enruji Temple, aka Tōkasan,

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Shima Akari Miyajima Illuminations

April 1, 2016June 2, 2016 Sponsored post 3109 Views 2 Comments Illuminations, Miyajima

The island of Miyajima is a lovely place to visit at any time of the year and any time of

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Setsubun at Sumiyoshi Shrine

February 2, 2016February 6, 2016 Paul Walsh 2876 Views 0 Comment Setsubun, Winter

Many people from surrounding neighborhoods gather at the riverside Sumiyoshi Shrine on the afternoon of February 3 to commemorate Setsubun.

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