BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Get Hiroshima - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Get Hiroshima X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://gethiroshima.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Get Hiroshima REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20190805T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20190805T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T214927 CREATED:20160729T003210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190716T054412Z UID:20765-1565028000-1565038800@gethiroshima.com SUMMARY:A Summer Evening of Prayer & Peace DESCRIPTION:On the night of August 5\, the string of temples and shrines in Futaba-no-sato\, originally constructed to protect the castle town of Hiroshima from misfortune that was said to come from the inauspicious northeast direction\, are illuminated by candles and decorated with flowers to comfort the souls of the victims of the A-bombing and to wish for peace throughout the world. \nAll are welcome and there is no charge to participate. You can go wander around the shrines and temples by yourself\, or you can join a guided tour which will assemble in front of Hiroshima Shinkansen Station at 18:00. Futaba-no-sato volunteer guides will be accompanied by English speaking guides to help with translation. \nSchedule \n\n18:00 Japanese green tea and a chilled piece of watermelon service in Shiribuka Park\n19:00 Flute performance by “Yoshiyuki Kodani with Otomai”in Nigitsu Shrine\n19:00 Japanese shakuhachi flute performance by Komuso monks in Shokoji Temple\n19:00 Lighting of candles in Tsuruhane Shrine\n19:30 Sutra chanted by a chief priest in Kokuzenji Temple\n19:30 & 20:15 Performance of the brass band by Sakuragaoka high school students in Myojoin Temple\n20:00 Japanese shakuhachi flute performance in Onaga Tenman-gu Temple\n20:30 Japanese sho flute performance in Hiroshima Toshou-gu Shrine\n\nDownload English Maps of the Futaba-no-sato History Walk here and here. URL:https://gethiroshima.com/event/a-summer-evening-of-prayer-peace/ LOCATION:Futaba-no-sato Walk of History\, Higashi-ku\, Hiroshima-shi\, Hiroshima-ken\, Japan CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Illuminations,Peace,Performance,Spitituality,Traditional ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://gethiroshima.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/聖光寺.jpg GEO:34.39548;132.4824288 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Futaba-no-sato Walk of History Higashi-ku Hiroshima-shi Hiroshima-ken Japan;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Higashi-ku:geo:132.4824288,34.39548 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR