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The 71st Tsukiji Honganji Noryo Bon Dance Festival

[Sam] August 2, 2018 09:00

P8011496ELS'.jpgDSC06885RSR'G.jpg From August 1st to 4th, the annual “Tsukiji Honganji Noriyo Bon Dance Festival” is being held at Tsukiji Honganji Temple. (19:00~21:00)

This is the 71st event this year, but last year, 400 years have passed since the founding of the predecessor, Honganji Edo Gobo, and as part of the "Tera" and Project, aiming to become an "open temple", We are maintaining the precincts, and this year is the first Bon Dance Festival since then.

During the Bon Odori dances to songs such as "Tokyo Ondo", "Tsukiji Ondo", and "This is Edo Bon Dance", live performances of "Oedo Sukeroku Taiko" will be performed, and on the 3rd, the annual "masquerade competition" is also scheduled.

"The best Bon Dance in Japan! Under the slogan ", there are also stalls of famous stores in Tsukiji Outer Market.

The lanterns decorated around the tower set up at the venue are glittering.