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Tobata Gion Festival
Tobata gion yamagasa
Annual festival in Kyushu, Japan
Kitakyushu · Tobata-ku · Japan
🗓️ When?
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No date recorded — please check with the organiser.
- Founded
- 1803
📍 Where?
- Town
- Kitakyushu
- Region
- Tobata-ku
- Country
- Japan
- How precise?
- coordinate of the town or municipality
This position is the town's, not the festival ground's.
ℹ️ Details
- Website
- tobatagion.jp
- Status
- unclear
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival (戸畑祇園山笠) is a popular local Japanese festival (matsuri) which takes place annually in Tobata, a ward of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It is held for three days (Friday–Sunday) before and after the fourth Saturday of July. The festival is a national cultural asset of Japan, and is centred on the parading of the "Yamagasa" (山笠).
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