Setsubun-sai at Sumiyoshi-jinja
Have the smell of 1000 fish heads wafted over you by shrine maidens wielding giant fan to ward off bad
Have the smell of 1000 fish heads wafted over you by shrine maidens wielding giant fan to ward off bad
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.
Ritual tea picking in traditional garb at Shukkeien Garden.
Frenetic and colorful countryside festival that involves groups of locals charging up and down a narrow street carrying huge umbrellas.
Hiroshima really comes alive over the three nights of Tōkasan - a festival that really does feel "festive". Join the
Mibu-no-hanadaue is a revived rice planting ritual that dates back to the Middle Ages and is reenacted on the first
Ritual rice planting and traditional agricultural dance performances at Shukkeien Garden in the center of Hiroshima city.
The port town of Kirikushi on the north coast of Etajima Island holds a small, but colorful festival every year
Sumiyoshi-san, along with the Tokasan and Ebessan festivals, is one of Hiroshima city's big three annual shrine festivals that have
Hiroshima's annual Peace Memorial Day concludes with the poignant and beautiful August 6 floating ceremony on the Motoyasu River.
A bunch of almost naked men clambering on top of one another in the sea trying to capture a lucky ball on a hot summer day!
A 15 minute firework display over the sea is the dramatic finale to a series of elaborate reenactments of the