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Chichibu Night Festival
秩父夜祭
Chichibu Shrine's annual festival celebrated on the nights of December 1-6
Chichibu Shrine · Chichibu · Japan
🗓️ When?
December
Only the month is known, not the day.
- Month
- December
📍 Where?
- Town
- Chichibu Shrine
- Region
- Chichibu
- Country
- Japan
- How precise?
- coordinate of the venue
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- chichibu-jinja.or.jp/…
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Chichibu Night Festival is an annual festival held between 2 and 3 December in Chichibu, centred at the Chichibu Shrine The festival has been held for over 300 years, and has been described as a Japanese UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage item. In March 2020, the Time Out magazine described the Chichibu Night Festival as one of Japan's big three float festivals, along with the Gion Festival in Kyoto and the Takayama Festivals in Gifu.
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