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The area is rich in international colors with embassies in the surrounding area, but it is a festival where you can feel the heart and season of Japan. The contents of the autumn festival will include Bon dance, festival stalls and gourmet stalls, children's kamikoshi and floats, workshops, and performances.

The "Asakusa Samba Carnival", which had been postponed since the year of Reiwa 2 (2020), is finally fully revived as the "39th Asakusa Samba Carnival Parade Contest" at the long-awaited Asakusa-Raimon Street. Let's enjoy the rhythm of samba ringing in the town of Asakusa. Image courtesy:(C) Asakusa Samba Carnival Executive Committee

A traditional German beer harvest festival is held in Tochigi, the birthplace of Yuzo Yamamoto, who translated "Take the sun to the heart", which is said to support the German heart. Under the autumn sky, you can enjoy the German beer and cuisine, and on stage, German folk music and musicians from Tochigi City will perform. Surrounded by the real food, beer and music, the venue is steeped in Germany and is very crowded with families. * Contents may be changed or canceled depending on the situation. Image courtesy of Tochigi City Tourism Association

A ritual of entering the Ujiko against the Ujigami held at Furutani Hachiman Shrine. A "horo" is a piece made of 36 bamboo eggs with flowers made of light peach-colored paper, which are inserted into a back-carrying basket and decorated. The child carrying the horo is called holojicco. The child carries it on his back and moves on with a unique step while shaking Yusayusa. Image courtesy of Kawagoe City Board of Education

A "Sagae Matsuri" with history and tradition is held as an example festival of the Sagae Hachiman-gū. Every year, mainly on September 15, a strict ritual at the Sagae Hachiman Palace Shrine, a brave event that is designated as an intangible folk property in Yamagata Prefecture, "Sagae Hachiman-gyo-gama", and a procession by the Sagae Hachiman-gu-gai Preservation Society "Nimachi Tour", where the procession is kneaded, there will be a tour of "Kuryu Taikocho", which will enliven the city with a small performance. On the 15th (Sunday) of the last day, the finale will be decorated by the "Shinkoshi no Rite", which boasts one of the largest sizes in Tohoku.

In addition to a dozen gorgeous floats and a large number of courageous kamikoshi reeling and milling around the town, there will also be deer dances and kagura-kongjitai dances, as well as Hanamaki Bayashi dances with elegant elegance. In 2015, it has achieved a world record of 114 units for "the number of kamkoshi shown in one venue".

A big event in the district. The hot spring town becomes a festival mood due to a competition by a man, Goddess Koko on the first day and a junior high school student, Motokoko Sanki, and a young lion inspired by a rampaging lion drum on the second day. The first day is between 18:00 and 20:30, and the second day is between 16:00 and 21:30.

Nambu Kiri-da Kagura is a kagura that has been held up for generations by the eldest son of Kiri-da district and represents Aomori. It is dedicated every year on September 15 at the Kirida-Hachiman Shrine. The representative performance is the Gongju Dance, which exorcizes Gohwa with a five-headed lion head, and is known as the Brilliant Dance.

It is a festival that continues from the middle of the Edo period, with the procession of the priests and the Shinkoshi milling around the town. The procession of the Imperial Court comes from the fact that the Matsumae clan paid homage to their ancestors, Kaminokuni, and allowed the samurai dress (kamishi) to residents who accompany them on foot at the time of the annual festival. In the shrine, Kagura dances (Matsumae Kagura group) are performed. On the first day, the afternoon "Mengarō", the evening festival (Kagura Mai) is held from the evening, and the regular festival (Kagura Mai and the mountain car only) is held from 10 o'clock on the second day. * In 2024, the procession of the priests and the Mikami-koshi procession will be canceled.

The main part of the festival is a 2.2m diameter and 5.5 tons in diameter, and a 200kg in size. The "Yoitomake method" is used to lift a pestle with a pulley attached to a 10m high building and drop it at once from a height of about 5m. When lifting a pestle, the power of about 200 people, including visitors, is required, and the visitors can experience a large-scale rice cake with the “Hyakunchi Wakao”, which takes the sound on the top of the main building, and the visitors. In addition, fresh rice cakes are served as soup flour to visitors with the wish of longevity. Image courtesy: Iwamizawa Tourism Association