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Author: Paul Walsh

Features Festivals 

Miyajima Kangen-sai

July 10, 2025July 10, 2025 Paul Walsh 14572 Views Festival, Miyajima, Summer

The Kangensai boat festival centered on Itsukushima Shrine is probably Miyjima’s biggest festival of the year.

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Showa Emperor Hirohito greets crods in Hiroshima in 1947
Features Peace 

Showa Emperor Hirohito In Hiroshima

June 20, 2025June 21, 2025 Paul Walsh 1013 Views A-bomb, History

In Emperor Hirohito’s historic broadcast to the Japanese people – the first by a Japanese Emperor – on August 15,

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hiroshima rainy season guide
Features How-Tos Lifestyle 

Rainy season survival guide

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 Paul Walsh 8632 Views

Don’t let the annual rainy season get you down. The time for brightly colored hydrangea blooms and moody Japanese garden and temple views, it can actually be quite nice. Romantic even.

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Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals 

Tōkasan Yukata Festival

June 5, 2025June 5, 2025 Paul Walsh 21760 Views

Held every year for three days starting on the first Friday of June, Tōkasan [とうかさん] is the most festive of

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Peach Blossoms in Ohnan
Features Museums & Attractions Nature 

Hanamomo Peach Blossoms in the Closest Village to Heaven

April 2, 2025April 13, 2025 Paul Walsh 8926 Views Ohnan, Shimane

A gorgeous natural tapestry of peach blossoms painted on the rice terraces of the “Closest Village to Heaven,” high in the hills of Ohnan.

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Iwami Ginzan
Features Travel 

Road Tripping in Iwami: Iwami Ginzan

March 24, 2025April 14, 2025 Paul Walsh 2495 Views Iwami, San'in, Shimane

I was recently invited on a two-day road trip to Iwami in Shimane Prefecture. Although I have visited Hamada and

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Features Outdoor 

Hanami In Hiroshima 2025

March 22, 2025April 9, 2025 Paul Walsh 30763 Views Cherry Blossom, hanami, Sakura, spring

Although the last gasps of winter may make you think otherwise, come late March, spring is just around the corner,

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Family Features Parks and Gardens 

Asa Zoo: Creatures great and small in the hills of Hiroshima

March 12, 2025May 9, 2025 Paul Walsh 1127 Views

GetHiroshima was recently invited to take a tour behind the scenes, with the hope that we would share its activities

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Arts & Entertainment Festivals 

Mihara Shinmei-ichi Daruma Festival

February 5, 2025February 11, 2025 Paul Walsh 13892 Views Winter

Over 500 street stalls selling every imaginable kind of festival food, daruma dolls, a plant and shrub market, daruma dolls, haunted houses, daruma dolls, open air karaoke competitions, thousands of people, and more daruma dolls, including the biggest in the world.

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Oni wa soto - Setsubun
Arts & Entertainment Festivals 

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

January 25, 2025February 11, 2025 Paul Walsh 13349 Views Setsubun, Winter

On Setsubun people across Japan look forward to spring witb demons, beans, sushi rolls, and stinky fish!

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