Japan is home to amazing cultural events – so plan your trip around these Japanese celebrations in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and ...

Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri, which began over 1,000 years ago, as he unravels the mystery of the decorations and meets the foreign volunteers.

KYOTO--Under the blaze of ... participate in Yamahoko Junko of the Ato Matsuri (the latter climactic part) on July 24. The Gion Festival, one of Japan’s three largest festivals, returned to ...

Visitors from all over the world stroll among these ephemeral works of art, illuminated at nightfall in the heart of the Japanese winter. Gion Matsuri, Kyoto: a thousand-year-old tradition and the ...

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so ...

KYOTO--For the first time in three ... celebrations to drive away the pandemic.” The Gion Festival, one of the three largest festivals in Japan, features various events during the month of ...

Kyoto, Japan is a captivating city steeped in tradition ... The 1,350-year-old shrine hosts the Gion Matsuri festival each summer. The Yasaka Gate connects to Maruyama Park and ultimately the ...

This time we introduce "Core Kyoto Special: Behind the Scenes of Gion Matsuri," which shows the eagerness of foreign volunteers who support the Matsuri among Japanese people including Kyoto locals.

The Kyoto Gion Matsuri is the annual festival of Yasaka Shrine, with a history going back about 1,100 years. It's considered one of the top three festivals in Japan, along with Tokyo’s Kanda ...