Kagurazaka Awa Festival

Kagurazaka Awa Festival is one of the most famous fiestas of the month of August in Tokyo. This is a traditional street dance festival during which the whole population of Kagurazaka comes to the streets of this particular locale and celebrates the event by dancing. Here lies the magnificent diversity in Japanese culture. In this same month of August, where there celebrates the religious event of Buddhist Obon Festival, with all its ritual aspects, the Kagurazaka Awa Festival brings forth sheer enjoyment in which the whole populace of Shinzuku gets absorbed.

The Kagurazaka vicinity is famous for backstreet strolling which offers one the nostalgic atmosphere of old Tokyo to enjoy. Kagurazaka Festival is a local summer carnival that holds such ambience of the good old days. During the festival, a hozuki-ichi (Chinese lantern plant fair) is held at and around Bishamonten Zenkokuji Temple. Here you will see volunteer guides putting on yukata called "Yukata Concierge" offer guests with guiding service of the area.

In the temple's grounds you will find a beer garden particularly established in order to provide you an exclusive enjoyment of a summer evening. The best part of the celebration is the awa odori dance parade. Kagurazaka was the first region in Tokyo which introduced this gorgeous dance procession to its local events.

There are about fifteen groups of dancers showing the results of their hard practice as they parade through the Kagurazaka Dori Avenue packed with crowds.

The most pleasurable feature of a fiesta like this is the opportunity they present for populace to get to know neighbors with whom they usually have slight contact. Customary carnival dancing is full of life and allows a lot of liberty for individual understanding, making it easy to get to the young people.

The number of ways that people can take pleasure in these dances is increasing year after year, with some events taking the form of a contest and others being performed in teams. The festival roar is entrenched in local ties and in people's reminiscence for the areas in which they was brought up.

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