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Hakata Dontaku
Port Festival |
3 - 4 May
The highlight of this festival is the parade, which
draws participants from around Kyushu, but there is
a wide variety of activities taking place as well,
which draw much of the city's people out for a
well-deserved holiday.
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Hakata Gion
Yamakasa |
1
- 15 July
A
major traditional festival, the main highlight is
the Oiyama race, when hundreds of men carry huge
floats around the city. There are many other
activities as well, from parades to races. Most of
the events take place around Kushida Shrine.
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Yamaga Toro
Matsuri (Yamaga Lantern Festival) |
August (tba)
This festival held at Omiya-Shrine is one of the
three greatest summer fire festivals in Kumamoto,
with its highlight being 1,000 women dressed in
cotton summer kimono and bearing lighted gold and
silver lanterns on their heads dancing all night
long as they sing 'Yoheho-bushi' in a very slow
tempo, on the second day.
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