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"Toukasan" and "Yukata-de-Kinsai" Festival

Events that announce the summer in Hiroshima, "Toukasan" and "Yukata-de-Kinsai" Festival.

The official name of “Toukasan” is called “Toukasan Taisai”.
"Toukasan" is the "Touka Daimyojin -great shining deity-" that protects Enryuji Temple, and "Taisai" stands for a big festival held once a year.
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This “Taisai” has said to start in 1620, and since then, it has been very familiar to those in Hiroshima for 400 years.

This festival is also known as the "The beginning of Yukata season" Festival.

Yukata is an outfit similar to what you imagine as Kimono, and is more a casual one made of cotton or other materials which are suitable for use in hot humid summer. And many people recognize this festival as the beginning of Yukata season of the year.

“Toukasan” is held for three consecutive days from the first Friday of June every year. And here, many people wear Yukata for the first time of the year.

During the same period, "Yukata-de-Kinsai"(meaning “welcome you, in Yukata!”) is also held, and you see various events over downtown Hiroshima. With those festivals, as many as 450,000 people come around downtown area and enjoy the festivals.

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If you are looking for a cultural experience in Japan, why don't you try putting on Yukata, visit temple, and enjoy eating and dancing with locals in Hiroshima? It will get you through the lively active culture!

Enryuji Temple

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