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* [http://japan-attractions.jp/festivals/namahage-sedo-masturi2014/ Namahage Sedo] child scaring festival (Akita Feburary 7-9) | * [http://japan-attractions.jp/festivals/namahage-sedo-masturi2014/ Namahage Sedo] child scaring festival (Akita Feburary 7-9) | ||
* [http://japan-attractions.jp/nature/akita-inukko-festival2014/ Akita Inukko] snow dog sculpture festival (Akita Feburary 8-9) | * [http://japan-attractions.jp/nature/akita-inukko-festival2014/ Akita Inukko] snow dog sculpture festival (Akita Feburary 8-9) | ||
* [http://japan-attractions.jp/festivals/yokote-snow-festival-kamakura-bonden-2014/ Yokote snow festival | * [http://japan-attractions.jp/festivals/yokote-snow-festival-kamakura-bonden-2014/ Yokote snow festival] with kamakura and bonden (Akita February 15-17) | ||
* [http://japan-attractions.jp/popculture/new-wave-artists-2014-from-the-public-entry-exhibition/New Wave Artists] at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Tokyo February 19-March 7) | * [http://japan-attractions.jp/popculture/new-wave-artists-2014-from-the-public-entry-exhibition/New Wave Artists] at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Tokyo February 19-March 7) | ||
* [http://japan-attractions.jp/food/amakusa-festival-of-food-2014/ Amakusa Festival of Food] (Amakusa February 15-16) | * [http://japan-attractions.jp/food/amakusa-festival-of-food-2014/ Amakusa Festival of Food] (Amakusa February 15-16) | ||
Revision as of 02:24, 25 December 2013
Ideas of places to go:
Here is a list of winter festivals in Japan during the time we will be there including:
- Hachinohe Enburi folk festival and dance (Aomori February 17-20)
- A whole series of drift ice festivals in Hokkaido
- Yuki doro snow lantern festival (February 8-11)
- Namahage Sedo child scaring festival (Akita Feburary 7-9)
- Akita Inukko snow dog sculpture festival (Akita Feburary 8-9)
- Yokote snow festival with kamakura and bonden (Akita February 15-17)
- Wave Artists at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Tokyo February 19-March 7)
- Amakusa Festival of Food (Amakusa February 15-16)
- 8th Tenmatenjin Umeshu Convention (Osaka February 15-23)
- Tokamachi Snow Festival (Niigata February 14-16) including "giant snow sculptures and stage performances; and the Nakasato Setsugen Carnival, in which a local ski resort is covered in candles to create a surreal, beautiful scene; and the Muko-nage Festival, where young men who have married during the past year are thrown into snowdrifts."
- Kite-flying contest at Tsuda no Matsubara (Kagawa February 9)
- Uesugi Snow Lantern Festival (Yamagata February 7-9)
