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Tobata Gion Yamagasa festival

4 min • 24 mars 2025

On a warm summer evening crowds line the streets to watch the opening ceremony of the Tobata Gion lantern festival. Several floats can be heard passing as they march through the town.

UNESCO listing: Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan

Recorded by Thomas Martin Nutt.

IMAGE: JKT-c, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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