54th Fukuoka City Ikebana Festival
This well-established event brings together many schools of ikebana and kado (flower arrangement). It’s a rare chance to see such a wide variety of Fukuoka’s ikebana styles and tr...
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54th Fukuoka City Ikebana Festival
This well-established event brings together many schools of ikebana and kado (flower arrangement). It’s a rare chance to see such a wide variety of Fukuoka’s ikebana styles and tr...
Exhibition of Hakata Dolls by Young Artists
In this exhibition, animals from the Fukuoka City Zoo are represented as Hakata Dolls at Hakata Traditional Craft and Design Museum. The second edition of the Hakata Doll exhibitio...
Doll Festival at Hakata Machiya
Celebrate this year’s Doll’s Festival at Hakata Machiya! Be sure to check out the dolls and wedding costumes on the second floor of the Exhibition Hall. Visitors can also find out....
21st Iizuka Hina Matsuri
Iizuka Hina Matsuri is one of Japan’s biggest zashikibina (hina dolls arranged around a miniature festival scene)! At the old Residence of Ito Denemon, which was recently designate...
67th Exhibition of Japanese Handicrafts
The Fukuoka Mitsukoshi Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Japanese handicrafts this February. The event, which has taken place every year since 1954, aims to promote traditional t...
Setsubun at Kushida Shrine
The seasonal presentation of a giant ‘otafuku’ gate at Kushida Shrine’s entrance in Fukuoka City celebrates its sixtieth year anniversary this year. The smiling face of the Otafuku...
Nyoirinji Temple Fire Festival
Located in Ogori, Fukuoka, Nyoirinji Temple, which is famous for its huge collection of frog statues, holds a ritual every New Year to pray for...
Mekari Shinji Harvest Festival
he origin of The Mekari Shinji ritual is linked to the time when Empress Jingu (approx. 200 A.C.) sent Azumiisora-no-kami (god of the sea) to the waters before...
Eat Namako Mochi on New Year’s Eve at Hakozakigu Shrine
Visit Hakozakigu Shrine on Dec. 31 to see one of Japan’s New Year traditions, the mochitsuki. Mochitsuki is when rice is pounded to make mochi. The mochi at this festival are in th...
Nanakusa No Sekku
The 7th of January is Nanakusa no Hi. Nanakusa refers to seven herbs or seven kinds of grass eaten together on this day as okayu (rice porridge) for good health for the rest of the...