fukagawa_hachiman_festival

A wet and rousing festival

Address:

Tomioka Hachiman-gu Shrine - Koto-ku
135-0048 - Asakusa / Mukojima
Tokyo

Nearest Bus or Train:

Monzen-nakacho Station

Open Hours:

Not available

One of Tokyo's Big 3 festivals (the other two are the Sanno Festival and the Kanda Festival), this is definitely the wettest and the wildest of Japanese festivals. Nicknamed "water-throwing festival," it attracts over a half-million onlookers and some 30,000 participants. The participants and the mikoshi (portable shrine)carried by them are drenched with water thrown from buckets and hoses by the bystanders along the eight-kilometer route.

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