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Yamaga Toro Matsuri
Medium crowdKyushuYamaga, Kumamoto
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Date
August 15–16
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Region
Kyushu
About this festival
Kumamoto's elegant lantern festival where 1,000 women dance through the streets balancing gold paper lanterns on their heads. The visual is unlike anything else in Japan — a quiet, mesmerizing alternative to loud summer matsuri.
Highlights
- ✓1,000 dancers with gold lanterns on heads
- ✓Yukata-clad procession
- ✓Onsen town setting
- ✓Far fewer tourPRists than mainstream festivals
Getting There
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JR Kumamoto Station + bus (~1 hour to Yamaga)
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