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February 2021
Mihara Daruma Festival (Shinmei-ichi) [CANCELLED]
During the 3-day Mihara Daruma Festival the streets are taken over by stalls selling lucky daruma dolls and every kind of festival food you can imagine. The pride of Mihara is also on display, the nation's biggest daruma doll which weighs in at a couple of hundred kilograms. Read and see more photos from the "Daruma Festival" here.
Find out more »December 2021
New Year at Gokoku Shrine
New Year rituals at Gokoku Shrine, next to Hiroshima Castle.
Find out more »Chinkasai Fire Festival
Living in wooden houses, closely clustered together along narrow streets, for centuries, fear of calamitous fires is deeply ingrained in the Japanese psyche. The Chinkasai festival on Miyajima is an impressive fire prevention festival held early in the evening on New Year's Eve. Read more about what you can expect at the Chinkasai fire prevention festival here.
Find out more »January 2022
New Year rituals at Itsukushima Shrine
Traditional New Year rituals at Itsukushima Shine on Miyajima that date from over 1000 years ago.
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