Sunday was a sunny day in Tokyo, which was good for a lot of local festivals that were being held around my neighbourhood. In nearby Nakameguro, I came across a small festival based around a jinja (Shinto shrine) called Kitano Jinja.
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Miyagase Valentines Festival
It’s coming up to Valentines Day, so what better reason for a lakeside country town to hold a cheesy romantic festival?
That’s right, at Miyagase, in Kanagawa Prefecture, it was the Valentine Week festival. This was an event stumbled upon after a hike to nearby Tanzawa-san – we’d descended the mountain, it was getting dark, and were searching for the bus stop to get back to the Tokyo, when we stumbled upon a surreal lake-side event. (more…)