Spectators have packed the streets of the traditional Japanese metropolis of Kyoto to see the spotlight of the standard Gion Festival — a procession of ornately adorned floats.
The parade of 23 floats started on Monday morning. People applauded through the procession when a toddler in a standard costume on the lead float used a sword to chop a sacred rope stretched throughout a fundamental avenue.
The floats negotiated right-angle turns at intersections. Wet bamboo sticks laid beneath their wheels helped with the turns.
The competition is claimed to have begun greater than 1,000 years in the past to wish for an finish to a plague. The procession is held on July 17 yearly, nevertheless it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
祇園祭・神幸祭。石段下での三社揃い踏みは圧巻でした！ pic.twitter.com/5IaLGBSFVI
— 茉莉@プロ京都 (@matsuri_kyoto) July 17, 2023
Police say about 150,000 folks got here to see the parade regardless of the scorching warmth. Temperatures reached as excessive as 37.7 levels Celsius.
Northeastern Japan pounded by heavy rain
NHK – Jul 16
People in northeastern Japan are coping with a document quantity of rainfall. Weather officers are urging them to remain on the alert for flooding and landslides.
A First-Timer’s Tour of Iwate
japan-guide.com – Jul 14
On this 3-Day Trip, we discover Iwate Prefecture’s number of points of interest. From its dramatic shoreline, spectacular mountains, and historic cities to rustic scorching springs and a capital metropolis the New York Times ranked second amongst locations to go on the earth in 2023.
Unexpected first impressions of Japan’s distant north
TREAD the globe – Jul 10
After driving to essentially the most northerly level of Japanese mainland, we board a ferry to take us to Japan’s most northerly island of Hokkaido. Known because the wilderness island and residential to the Ezo Bear.
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