Ji-no-hi Matsuri
Frenetic and colorful countryside festival that involves groups of locals charging up and down a narrow street carrying huge umbrellas.
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.
Thrilling local festival in which rival neighborhoods compete in a hectic speed race involving huge portable shrines, afer parading through the streets.
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
An evening of quiet reflection in the Futaba-no-sato temple and shrine district on the eve of the annual commemoration of the Hiroshima A-bomb attack.
The Yanai Goldfish Festival is one of the region's most colorful and vibrant summer festivals.
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!
The island of Innoshima celebrates its Murakami Suigun seafaring clan heritage with a day of traditional boat races and other events.
A 15 minute firework display over the sea is the dramatic finale to a series of elaborate reenactments of the