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Hapina Nakakecho Shopping Arcade, a popular main shopping street area in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. During the Sendai Tanabata Matsuri Fstival, all the Sendai city and neighboring shopping districts is filled with elaborate elegant colorful paper and bamboo decorations

$Tokyo, Japan-August 5, 2023\nSprinkling of water in Ginza, Tokyo, in order to cool down the summer heat. People are asked to sprinkle water, to the tune of drum-beat, performed by professional female drummers. \nThis event, called Uchimizu in Japanese, takes place on the last weekend of July, or first weekend of August, annually, with many men and women turning up in yukata, traditional Japanese summer kimono.\nAfter 2 years' absence due to VOVID-19 pandemic, the event was resumed in the summer of 2022.$

A large number of visitors and gorgeous rakes come to buy lucky rakes at the year-end rooster market at Hanazono Shrine, where the god of commerce is enshrined, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, on November 22, 2023.

$Shizuoka, JAPAN - April 15, 2012:This is Kanaya-cho, Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.It is the production area of green tea.The Kanaya Green Tea Festival is held once every two years in April.\nThis festival heralds the arrival of the new tea season.The main event of the festival is “Chamusume Dochu”.\nApproximately 1,000 tea girls in tea-picking costumes perform splendid dances.\nIn the evening, young people in happi coats energetically lead the floats, and powerful Kawagoe drums are played.$

$The image was shot in Kamojima of Japan on the 14th of August 2017. A group of dancers were performing \ntraditional folk dance of Awa Odori to celebrate the rich harvest of the year.$

Japanese yukata couple dating at traditional festival

Tobata Gion Oyamakasa Festival, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan on July 22,

AKITA, JAPAN - AUGUST 6: People watch the Kanto lanterns being carried during the Akita Kanto Festival on August 6, 2022 in Akita, Japan. Akita Kanto Festival is a summer festival held from August 3 to 6 in Akita City, Akita Prefecture. It is considered one of the three major festivals in Tohoku. It was the first time after three years that the festival was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

tokyo, japan - august 5 2019: Mashed paper sculptures of japanese folklore characters depicting chindonya music cats in the Asagaya Pearl Center shopping street indoor mall during Tanabata festival.

$Tokyo, Japan-August 25, 2024:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.$

Takayama, Japan - October 9, 2014: A very famous traditional festival for thanksgiving and celebration of the rich harvest in Takayama, many people are walking happily on the Miyakawa river market in afternoon.

Crowd of people walking in Nanyodori Shotengai (Janjan Yokocho) in downtown Osaka, a narrow covered shopping street 180 meters long. The alley is packed with wonders of the past and cheap Osaka food.

Tokushima, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024 Soodori. All of performers wear traditional costumes, dance and sing as they parade through the outdoor stage at night.

AOMORI, JAPAN - AUGUST 5: Participates dance during the Aomori Nebuta Festival on August 5, 2022 in Aomori, Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival is a summer festival held from August 2 to 7 in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture. It is considered one of the three major festivals in Tohoku. It was the first time in three years that the festival was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gifu, Japan - October 4, 2015: Woman in traditional Japanese clothes during the 59th annual Nobunaga Festival historical reenactment parade

$Tokyo, Japan-August 27, 2023:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.$

Asagaya, Tokyo, August 2024. The colorful and beautiful decorations of the Tanabata Festival, now in its 68th year, held in the shopping arcade that runs from in front of the station, and the spectators who come to view them.

Japanese Yukata woman eating cucumber pickles with beer at festival

The Anjo Tanabata Festival is a festival event held in Anjo City, Aichi Prefecture. It is held in August every year.

Koganei, Tokyo, Japan - July 23, 2016: Japanese female participants at the 38th Koganei Awaodori Festival dancing on the street in the night.

Tokyo - May 19 2024: participants fight for their Sedan chair which a small size shrine represent their chamber of commerce in Sanja Festival. Sanja Festival is one of traditional festival, it is a weekend-long Shinto festival that is dedicated to the spirits of three men who founded a Buddhist temple

Shitamachi Tanabata Festival, Tokyo, Japan. Photographed on July 9, 2024 in Taito Ward, Tokyo.

$Tokyo, Japan-August 26, 2023:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.$

A typical downtown area of Minami, Osaka. According to the city planning of the Shogunate, the playhouses in Osaka were gathered on the south side of Dotonbori, and prospered as the home of Japanese plays for a long time. When a large number of people gathered in the play, the food shop naturally prospered. The restaurants are bustling all year round with shops of various genres lined up on the north side of Dotonbori Dori. In recent years, the river promenade and Tonbori River Walk have also become popular.

Fukuoka, Japan - February 3, 2014: Setsubun is the last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar. At Kushida Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan this day is celebrated by men and women born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year, throwing treats to the clamoring shrine goers below.

Main street in preparation for the Tanabata festival in the morning.

Yamato, Kanagwa Prefecture, Japan - July 26, 2015: Japanese women Japanese kimono dancing on the street during the 39th Kanagawa Yamato Awaodori Dance Festival.

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