Cormorant fishing. Fee is ¥1,800 without meal. Tickets are put on sale on the day from 1 hr. before the departure time. No reservation is necessary unless you charter a boat for a group. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 1-23, 6:30 p.m.-, 7:30 p.m.- Location: Oi ...

Festival featuring a parade of o-shishi mikoshi (portable shrine shaped like a huge lion head carried by town's people) and geisha, and yamanaka-bushi-wa-odori dancing parade by thousands of people in festival attire to the sound of shamisen (three-stringed musical instruments), flutes and drums on ...

Annual Festival of the shrine. Main event of the festival is shinko-sai (a parade of mikoshi led by a traditional boys' drums and fifes band, the carriages of the halberds, girls in beautiful attire, and decorated horses), proceeding on the main streets in the ...

Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Dohyo-iri (the ring-entering ceremonies) by Yokozuna (the grand champions) take place around 3:55 p.m. daily. Then the main matches by maku-uchi (upper-rank Sumo wrestlers) start. Advance tickets are sold at Ryogoku Kokugikan, Ticket Pia, convenience stores, and so on. ...

Annual Festival of the area. The highlight of this festival is a parade of mikoshi accompanied by people beating taiko on the streets of JR Ikebukuro Station West Exit area. Many other events are scheduled during the festival period. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 23 12:40 ...

The highlight of the event is when local residents carry mikoshi (portable shrines) and wade into the sea in an energetic frenzy. This is called shiofumi in Japanese. It will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Ohara Beach. This is followed ...

Festival of the area. The highlight of this festival is aizu-han-ko gyoretsu (a procession in honor of a feudal lord of the Aizu domain and his 500 armored warriors). Some more events are scheduled during the festival period. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 22 7 p.m.-8:30 ...

Japanese bush clover festival. Bush clovers are beautifully planted all over the shrine precincts. Several Japanese traditional performances are scheduled. Fee for tea ceremony is ¥800 or ¥1,500. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 23 from 11 a.m.: Japanese dance performance from noon: Iai (art of Japanese sword ...

Autumn Festival at the shrine. If it rains, Jingu Bugaku will be performed in the Sanshuden Hall only once from 11 a.m. on the day. Schedule & Key events: ● daily from 11 a.m.: & from 2 p.m.: Jingu Bugaku on the makeshift stage in Shin-en of ...

Annual Festival of the shrine. This year, it is the grand festival held once every five years. The highlight of this festival is a parade of horen (sacred palanquins) and people wearing ancient costumes. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 22 from 8 p.m.: Parade of people ...

Comb Festival featuring a colorful parade of about 45 women having their hair done in various coiffures representing each era from ancient times to the present day and in clothes reflecting those eras. If it rains, the parade will be canceled. Schedule & Key events: from ...

Cormorant fishing. Fee is 2,000 (child ¥1,000) without meal. Tickets are put on sale 30 min. before the boarding time on the day. No reservation is necessary unless you charter a boat for a group. Schedule & Key events: ● Sept. 1-Sept. 30, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Location: ...

Festival with a 400-year history. Youths wearing loin-clothes jostle each other in the shrine precincts, shouting "Yassa, Yassa," and vie with one another climbing up the pillars to be the first getting the bell attached to the top of the ceiling in the shrine. Schedule ...

Cormorant fishing. Fee is ¥2,600 (weekdays on Sept. 1-Oct. 15) or ¥2,900 (every Sat. & Sun., Sept. 18 and Oct. 9), without meal. There are also lunch cruise every Tue., Thur., Sat. and Sun. with ¥4,500 (Tue. and Thur. on Sept. 1-Oct. 15) or ...