For three days each summer, Sumiyoshi Taisha becomes one of Osaka’s largest matsuri grounds. Food stalls, dragon dances, purification rituals,…

Ohama Park in Sakai will be packed with food stalls, family games, stage performances, and one of Japan’s most unusual…

A city becomes the festival when the Tenjin Matsuri returns to Osaka this July, bringing together shrine rituals, a massive…

One of Osaka’s largest danjiri festivals returns to Hirano this July. Over four days, nine floats, shrine rituals, and lively…

Before the fireworks of July and the crowds of Tenjin Matsuri, Osaka welcomes summer with a festival unlike any other.…

Japan’s most important agricultural rituals unfold at Sumiyoshi Taisha. Watch oxen plow a sacred field, shrine maidens perform ancient dances.

One of Japan’s most famous festivals returns to Osaka this July as Tenjin Matsuri once again transforms the Ōkawa River…

Watch Kishiwada’s legendary floats thunder through narrow streets at breakneck speed by day, then glow with lantern-lit grace by night…

Archers in flowing Heian garb gallop atop horses on the sacred ground at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine. An Arrow in flight…

From early summer rituals to autumn’s mikoshi procession, Nishinomiya Shrine's festival season is a celebration of community spirit, blessings, and…