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1Kanoukaen
Kanoukaen: The largest fire festival in all of Nagasaki features around 200 participants in samurai warrior costume marching through the blooming cherry trees of Tachibana Park with flaming torches... -
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Isahaya Lantern River Festival
This festival started as a memorial for the 630 victims of the Great Flood of Isahaya, which took place on July 25, 1957. The festival is a way to mourn the loss of life but also to promote the dev... -
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Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony
The Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony is held on August 9th every year in memory of the victims of the second atomic bomb, near to the location where the bomb was dropped in the Matsuyama neighbourh... -
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Summer Festival in Nishi Arie
This event takes place every year on the 25th of July inside the compound of the Tenmangu Shrine. A cogon grass ring is prepared through which people pass as a summer purification rite and hope for... -
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Summer Festival in Arie
Traditionally every year on the 29th and 30th of July a summer festival takes place at Arie Onsen Shrine. The main event happens on the 29th, where participants pray for good health and the stalls ... -
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Breweries Tour Festival in Arie
The town of Arie in Minami-Shimabara has flourished since the old times whilst being known as the “place of the village headman”. Arie’s sake & miso breweries, somen noodle factories and brick fact... -
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Festivitas Natalis (Christmas Festival) in Kita Arima
About 400 years ago in Kita Arima for the first time in Japan, a secondary education school called “Seminario of Arima” was instituted by the Jesuit missionaries. The main theme of Festivitas Natal... -
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Lively Summer Festival in Futsu
Local taiko (traditional Japanese percussion) groups gather at Konpira Park and with their powerful and vibrant performance they intend to expel noxious bad spirits and cheer up those who suffer fr... -
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Hara Castle Revolt Festival
Hara Castle was main stage of the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion where local peasants rose up against their oppressors. Seen as a Christian revolt, the shogunate spared no expenses at crushing it. Aro... -
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Konpira Park Festival in Futsu
The Konpira Shrine was constructed to pray for the safe voyage of boats, and the tranquility of the sea enroute. Before the Second World War, local annual events took place at Konpira Park. After t... -
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"Church Week in Kamigoto" Church Concerts
Two hundred and fifty years of persecution could not douse the flames of devotion as shown by the twenty-nine churches that now stand on the islands that comprise Shinkamigoto Town today. In Decemb...
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