11 Culture Oyster Festival in Miyajima Peter Eberhardt Traditional plays with flute and taiko drum music playing while the actors
Culture Ehime Saijo Festival 2026 Mid Oct a kind of festival juggernaut, mikoshi portable shrines, and taikodai drum... The biggest drum wagon is over five meters high and weighs about two and
Food Akafuku at Okage Yokocho Chris Glenn In the centre of the “village” is a drum tower, where energetic Taiko Drum
12 Activities Hakone’s Ashino-ko Lake Tomoko Kamishima The same type of dam-up lake, Chuzen-ji Lake in Nikko, sits much higher
12 Activities Tamagawa Lake and Campgrounds Anonymous The lake is formed by a rather spectacular dam at its east end.
Beauty & Spa Takaragawa Onsen Hollie Mantle The dam-dam curry, which is shaped like a dam with the rice holding back
12 Autumn at Lake Miyagase Cathy Cawood This man-made lake was created when Miyagase Dam was built, and supplies
Activities Okage Yokocho at Mie-ken Marsita Yunus addition to the food and shopping, visitors can also enjoy Japanese taiko drum