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Unko Museum Tokyo holds a Japanese poo festival in Odaiba

• Oona McGee
  Jul 5, 2024
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A scat twist on a Japanese festival. 

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“Half-naked men only in loincloths” drum battle returns to Hida festival for first time in five years

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2024

Festival of motion and stillness reinstates hours-long drum procession/shoving match.

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• (cool • crazy • culture • drums • festivals • Furukawa Festival • Gifu Prefecture • Hida • Hida-Furukawa • Matsuri • taiko • video)

300-year-old Japanese festival that curses all who see it permitted to be filmed for first time

• Master Blaster
  Feb 27, 2024

I’m going to lend the video to someone within a week anyway… just in case.

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• (Aichi • bad luck • festivals • Hisamaru Shrine • Kobe Omiyashinmeisha • Nematsuri • Sleeping Festival • superstitions • Taharashi)

Shinto shrine naked festival ritual asks men to cover up for first time in three-century history

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 23, 2024

Loincloths at least, gentlemen, says shrine in change of policy in how to ask the gods for a good harvest and plenty of fish.

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• (COK • culture • festivals • shinto • shrines)

Akutai Matsuri: Japan’s Verbal Abuse Festival, where insults and bad behaviour are encouraged

• Oona McGee
  Dec 28, 2023

People in Japan are known for being polite, but not at this weird winter festival.

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• (Akutai Matsuri • festivals • Ibaraki • Japanese festivals • society • tourism • tradition • travel • videos • weird festivals • winter festivals)

The two best Tsukimi Moon-Viewing burgers in Japan for 2023

• Oona McGee
  Sep 29, 2023

Find out which two chains are the ones to visit when the moon rises on this special festival day.

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• (autumn • Egawa Tasuku • fast food • festivals • First Kitchen • limited menu • Lotteria • moon viewing • moon-viewing burgers • review • seasonal menu • SNJO • taste test • tradition • tsukimi • tsukimi burger)

Tokyo’s coolest open-air museum gets even cooler with hot summer nights event

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 27, 2023

Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum wants to take you back in time to an old-school summer festival.

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• (architecture • COK • cool • culture • Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum • festivals • history • Matsuri • museums • open air museum • SNJO)

Rising Japan MusicFest returns to L.A. with loads of Japanese music, food, and drinks

• Master Blaster
  Jul 15, 2023

For two days the sun rises in the west.

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• (California • Def Tech • festivals • Iapoko • Japanese food • Los Angeles • music • Rising Japan Music • Shanice • yakitori)

The top 11 Japanese summer festivals, according to travellers

• Oona McGee
  Jun 16, 2023

Mark your calendars for these spectacular festivals!

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• (COK • culture • festivals • Gion Festival • Japanese festivals • Japanese summer festival • Kanto festival • Matsuri • Nebuta Festival • Sendai Tanabata Festival • SNJO • summer • summer festivals • Tanabata • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Our street food-skipping reporter learns he’s been doing Japanese festivals wrong his whole life

• Casey Baseel
  May 27, 2023

He’s one of the few people in Japan who made it to adulthood without trying one of the country’s most popular festival foods.

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• (COK • festivals • food • Japanese festivals • Japanese street food • Matsuri • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • street food • yakisoba)

Japanese Penis Festival shrine distances itself from penis mascot

• SoraNews24
  Mar 28, 2023

The one penis not welcome at Japan’s Kanamara Matsuri. 

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• (cool • culture • fertility • festivals • Japanese mascots • Japanese religion • Kanamara Festival • Mascots • penis festival • religion • shrines • temples • travel • weird • wtf)

Nagasaki Lantern Festival is like Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in real life

• Oona McGee
  Feb 4, 2023

Local resident reveals the secret spots you won’t want to miss during this breathtaking festival. 

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• China, Japan
• (beautiful • China • Chinese New Year • COK • events • festival • festivals • gorgeous • lanterns • Mariko Ohanabatake • Nagasaki • Nagasaki Lantern Festival • SNJO • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • travel)

Fights break out at Japanese fight festival

• Master Blaster
  Oct 24, 2022

The first rule of fight festival is: No fighting!

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• Japan
• (culture • dashi • Ehime • festivals • fight festivals • floats • kenka matsuri • Niihama • Niihama Taiko Festival)

Tokyo’s world-famous Kappabashi restaurant supply street’s annual festival is going on right now

• SoraNews24
  Oct 7, 2022

If you need just about any kind of cookware or tableware, you can find it here.

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• (cheap • cooking • festivals • Kappabashi • Kappabashi-dori • Tokyo)

Gigantic geyser erupts from Shinto shrine’s forest on the night before its summer festival【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 11, 2022

The way it looks, sounds, and smells all have people paying attention to this amazing display of the force of nature.

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• (COK • crazy • festivals • hot springs • onsen • shrines • video • weird)

Tokyo’s Nakano adds rock and disco to its annual summer bon dance【Videos】

• SoraNews24
  Aug 10, 2022

The neighborhood that invented the Obon Jovi dance is back with a new set list of rock and disco hits.

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• (bon dance • Bon Jovi • bon-odori • COK • culture • festivals • music • Nakano • Obon • SNJO • video)

A first-time visit to Kyoto’s Gion Festival becomes a night to remember

• Oona McGee
  Jul 25, 2022

There’s more to these giant Yamahoko floats than first meets the eye. 

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• Japan
• (chimaki • COK • culture • Egawa Tasuku • festivals • floats • Gion • Gion Festival • Gion Matsuri • Kyoto • SNJO • sweets • tradition • travel)

Host your very own Japanese summer festival with these DIY carnival game stands

• Katie Pask
  Jul 22, 2022

Cool new kits let you enjoy the atmosphere of a Japanese summer festival without leaving your home.

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• Japan
• (ball scooping • festival games • festivals • Japanese festival • summer • summer festival)

Studio Ghibli’s two most famous character masks come into the real world with mini o-men【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 11, 2022

Ghibli Museum’s hand-crafted masks are here just in time for Japan’s summer festival season.

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• Japan
• (anime • culture • fashion • festivals • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • interior • masks • No Face • o-men • Princess Mononoke • spirited away • Studio Ghibli • summer festivals)

Tokyo’s Imperial Palace to hold Floating Lantern Ceremony for first time in three years

• Katie Pask
  Jun 27, 2022

The breathtaking event is back after being cancelled due to the pandemic.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • Chidorigafuchi • COK • events • festivals • Floating Lantern • imperial castle moat • Imperial Palace • lanterns • summer • Tokyo • travel)

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