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Winter

Arts & Entertainment Festivals 

Mihara Shinmei-ichi Daruma Festival

February 5, 2025February 11, 2025 Paul Walsh 13940 Views Winter

Over 500 street stalls selling every imaginable kind of festival food, daruma dolls, a plant and shrub market, daruma dolls, haunted houses, daruma dolls, open air karaoke competitions, thousands of people, and more daruma dolls, including the biggest in the world.

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Oni wa soto - Setsubun
Arts & Entertainment Festivals 

Setsubun: demons, beans, fish heads, sushi and screaming children

January 25, 2025February 11, 2025 Paul Walsh 13358 Views Setsubun, Winter

On Setsubun people across Japan look forward to spring witb demons, beans, sushi rolls, and stinky fish!

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Setsubun water purification at Toukasan

Setsubun Water Purification Ritual at Toukasan

Enruji Temple (A.K.A. Toukasan) commemorates Setsubun on the last Sunday of January with a cold water purification ceremony.

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Features Festivals 

Tondo Matsuri

January 10, 2025January 14, 2025 Paul Walsh 19445 Views New Year, Tondo, Winter

Huge bonfires snap, crackle and pop around Hiroshima in the middle of January, sending the hope and dreams embodied in the past year’s votive goods and new year decorations up to the heavens.

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nanakusa no sekku vegetables
Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals Food and drink 

Nanakusa-no-sekku

January 6, 2025January 7, 2025 Paul Walsh 10476 Views New Year, Winter

“The feast of seven herbs” is a day on which people in Japan customarily eat a healthy seven-herb rice porridge to ensure give the stomach a break from the indulgences of New Year.

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Lifestyle Snow resorts 

Megahira Hot Spring Snow Resort

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023 Paul Walsh 15687 Views Family-friendly, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Winter

Megahira is the nearest snow resort to Hiroshima city, is very family-friendly and has a big hot spring perfect for those who like to keep their pants on.

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Chinkasai Fire Festival

December 28, 2021January 14, 2022 Paul Walsh 10772 Views Miyajima, New Year, Winter

Miyajima’s chinkasai is an impressive fire prevention festival held on New Year’s Eve. From midnight on December 31st, through the

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Features Photos & Video 

Setsubun at Gokoku Shrine 2020: Photo and Video

February 12, 2020February 13, 2020 jjwalsh 3651 Views New Year, Winter

“Oni wa Soto, Fuku wa Uchi” – images from a spectacle of demons and lucky beans at Hiroshima’s Gokoku-jinja.

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New Year In Hiroshima

December 27, 2019December 30, 2020 Paul Walsh 19092 Views New Year, Winter

See out the old, ring in the new; Hiroshima style.

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Christmas in Hiroshima

December 2, 2019April 10, 2025 Paul Walsh 5887 Views Christmas, Winter

Christmas is big in Japan. Kind of.

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