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Setsubun Festival at Miyajidake Shrine
At the "Mamemaki (bean-scattering)" rituals held at Miyajidake Shrine on January 28-29 and February 2-3, people of the unlucky years, as well as those born in the zodiac year of th...
Setsubun Festivals at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine
Setsubun is a festival celebrated on February 3, the traditional end of winter and beginning of spring. Across the country, homes and shrines are cleaned to sweep out bad luck and ...
Nagasaki Lantern Festival
Nagasaki celebrates its historical ties with China with 15,000 lanterns arranged in displays across the city, including lanterns in the shape of Chinese historical figures, zodiac ...
Toka Ebisu New Year Festival
A grand festival dedicated to Ebisu, the god of prosperous fishing and business. Browse 300 stalls with festival foods and other goods (including lucky charms), or enter the fukubi...
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...
Dazaifu Tenmangu – New Year’s Fire Festival
The Onisube Shinji festival takes place at the beginning of each year inside the grounds of Dazaifu Tenmangu. The event, recognized as one of Japan’s three main fire festivals, wel...
Tama Seseri
For over 600 years, two teams of loincloth-clad men have braved the winter cold to scramble for possession of an 8 kg wooden ball, which, if they touch it, will give them good luck...
Hatsukoshin Festival
A New Year custom in which people visit the small Sarutahiko Shrine in the early morning to line up and buy monkey masks handmade by Hakata ningyo doll makers. The masks are hung i...
New Year Night Market 2022 to 2023
The New Year Night Market, a year-end version of the Sennen Yoichi Night Market that can be enjoyed by tourists and locals alike, young and old, men and women, and all nationalitie...
Shika no Yu Festival
"Kaiseikan", a former hot spring inn, has been renovated as a workspace. To celebrate the first anniversary of its opening, an event will be held under the theme of "Live and Work ...