• Yamagata

The Yonezawa Uesugi Festival is a period picture scroll that unfolds on a grand scale wi…

• Fukushima

This traditional fire festival has been held annually for 420 years.It is said that the …

• Yamagata

Sakata Festival is held from May 19 to 21 every year. It is a traditional festival that …

• Miyagi

The Shiogama Minato Festival is counted as one of Japan’s top three boat festivals…

• Iwate

Kitakami City in Iwate Prefecture has many folk entertainment groups and abounds with ac…

• Yamagata

The Murayama Tokunai Festival takes place in Murayama city in Yamagata prefecture over t…

• Niigata

Tokamachi Snow Festival was born from the ideas of local people to “befriend the s…

• Iwate

The Fujiwara Festival is held every spring and autumn in the World Heritage town of Hira…

• Miyagi

The Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Festival was started as a festival to give thanks to Kawamura …

• Yamagata

The wide sky and verdant forest. The Iide Dondendaira Lily Garden, the largest lily gard…

• Fukushima

Located in Nishida-cho, Koriyama City, Takashiba Deco-Yashiki is the birthplace of Mihar…

• Aomori

• Fukushima

• Fukushima

Along with the Gion Festival in Kyoto and the Gion Yamagasa in Hakata, the Aizu Tajima G…

• Miyagi

The Sendai Aoba Festival is one of Sendai’s three major festivals that adds colour…

• Iwate

With sights resembling that of a splendid large picture scroll, the Hidaka Hibuse Festiv…

• Aomori

Four of the large Nebuta floats that have been used in the Nebuta Festival are on displa…

• Yamagata

[Natagiri Toge mountain pass] On May 17, 1689, or July 3 in the solar calendar, Matsuo B…

• Akita

• Aomori

・What is SnowHike?　・SnowHike is a combination of the best features of skis and snowsh…

• Iwate

Held on the second Saturday of June each year, the Chagu Chagu Umakko Festival is one of…

• Miyagi

The Michinoku Yosakoi Festival is a yosakoi dance event in which participants hold naruk…

• Fukushima

There have been many chrysanthemum fans in Nihonmatsu since the period when it was known…

• Aomori

The Aomori Nebuta Festival is one of Japan's representative fire festivals. The fest…

• Iwate

• Iwate

When you enter Tono Furusato Village, you will be surrounded by the retro scenery of a J…

• Aomori

Visitors can experience the charms of Tsugaru in its entirety through exhibitions of Hir…

• Fukushima

• Fukushima

Soma Nomaoi, a ritual dating back over a thousand years, takes place in northern Hamador…

• Miyagi

Since 2013, Shibata Town has been hosting this flower event from summer to autumn every …

• Fukushima

• Niigata

The Wara Art Festival is held every year from summer through autumn. Young people from t…

• Iwate

This festival has over 420 years of history and is held in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefectu…

• Miyagi

The Hatsu-uma Festival is a ritual taking place in Kami-machi in northern Miyagi prefect…

• Yamagata

The Tsuruoka Tenjin Festival is a ritual taking place annually on 25 May at Tsuruoka Ten…

• Iwate

Gokusui no En recreates a Heian period poetry game, and involves poets dressed in Heian …

• Fukushima

• Iwate

Tono City in Iwate Prefecture is known as the “city of folklore.” The Tono D…

• Niigata

The Murakami Grand Festival is a splendid and magnificent festival that has continued si…

• Iwate