Sorasaya Shrine Tondo Festival

This tondo festival in Honkawa is a nice mix of shrine rite and neighborhood event.

Tondo Festival at Gokoku Shrine

Hiroshima’s most central and visitor-friendly new year tondo bonfire festival.

With a total of around 700,000 colorful LEDs lighting up the natural setting of the expansive Bihoku Hillside Park in

Thousands of people visit Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima during the New Year holiday, and many don’t waste any time and

Goma Ritual burning of cedar sticks followed by fire walking. Members of the public set themselves up for a fortuitous

The mound of New Year decorations and previous year’s good luck amulets to be set aflame at Miyajima’s seaside Tondo

Ritual firing of the first arrow at Omote Shrine on Miyajima is held on January 20 every year.

Just got back from tondo matsuri at our local shrine. It’s quite a local affair, and the old guys let

Mid-winter swim featuring samurai swimming techniques in the river in front of Hiroshima’s A-bomb Dome.

It was a chilly morning, but the snow had melted by the time we got to Chuo-koen and we captured