but luckily for the scantily clad participants at the Yukake Matsuri festival here, the water was hot. The festival, where local revelers wearing only loincloths splash each other with water ...

Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri ... of the decorations and meets the foreign volunteers. Core Kyoto zooms in on the Hoka Hoko, one of the festival's ...

The bustling Sanja Matsuri festival featuring three huge “mikoshi” portable shrines returned in full force to Tokyo’s Asakusa district for the first time since 2019. The hugely popular event ...