Tomo Bentenjima Fireworks Festival
Tomo-no-ura Tomo, Tomo-cho, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, JapanTomo Bentenjima Fireworks Festival in the quaint port town of Tomo-no-ura kicks off the summer's fireworks festivals in the Chugoku
Tomo Bentenjima Fireworks Festival in the quaint port town of Tomo-no-ura kicks off the summer's fireworks festivals in the Chugoku
Onomichi's retro shopping arcade gets festive on Saturdays in the run up to the summer holidays.
Ritual rice planting and traditional agricultural dance performances at Shukkeien Garden in the center of Hiroshima city.
One of Onomichi's three major festivals. Three groups of men dressed in happi coats carrying mikoshi portable shrines make their
An hour long fireworks display in which 4000 fireworks explode above the water and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force ships docked in the port of Kure decorated with lights.
13,000 fireworks explode over the Onomichi sea channel.
Fukuyama's three day summer festival is rounded off with a 75 minute display featuring 16,000 fireworks over the Ashida-gawa River.
Living in wooden houses, closely clustered together along narrow streets, for centuries, fear of calamitous fires is deeply ingrained in
Setsubun festival e at Saikoku-ji Temple in Onomichi.
After a cleansing ritual to ward off evil spirits and bring in good luck performed in the shrine building which
Annual mame-maki throwing out of good luck beans and other goodies to commemorate Setsubun at Sorasaya Shrine.