Kyoto's summer festival Gion Matsuri spans the entire month of July and is crowned by the Yamaboko Junko parade on July 17. The night before the parade, called "Yoiyama", is also one of the highlights ...

KYOTO--The annual Gion Festival that started on July 1 in the ancient capital will not have its climactic processions of massive, decorative floats--the main highlight of the festival--for the second ...

The night shops are lined up there and the main shrine of Shijyo is becoming a pedestrian heaven and the Gion festival emotion rises together with the sound of Gion music accompaniment called ...

Summer nights in Kyoto come alive with an air of tradition every July as the streets fill with snack carts, cultural performers and kimono-clad celebrants for the Gion Matsuri, also known as Gion ...

On Wednesday – and every year on July 17 – a stream of portable shrines (mikoshi) flowed through Kyoto as part of the festivities of what may be Japan’s most famous festival: the Gion Matsuri, ...

Shijo-dori avenue is seen crowded with people during the Gion Festival in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward on July 15, 2023. (Mainichi/Kazuki Yamazaki)=Click/tap photo for more images. KYOTO -- Some hundreds of ...

KYOTO--For the first time in three years, the grand spectacle of the massive parade of floats called "Yamahoko Junko" will be seen passing through the downtown streets here in the annual Gion Festival ...

Marking a 1150 year anniversary in 2019, the Kyoto Gion Matsuri was subsequently suspended for two years due to outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Live coverage of the Yoiyama evening on July 16th and ...

Every July tourists flock to the Gion Festival in Kyoto for the chance to see a parade of sumptuously decorated floats pass through the heart of the city. Nippon.com takes a look at the history and ...

A close-up look at one of Japan's largest and most popular festivals, the Gion Matsuri. Experience a 1000 year old three-night-long event filled with traditional Japanese cuisine, music, folklore and ...