But Japan’s biggest summer festival, the month-long Gion Festival, is probably the most famous of them all.

The parade’s organizer, the Gion Festival Yamahoko Association, based in Kyoto’s Nakagyo Ward, made the decision on April 20 at a meeting with 34 local float-preservation associations.

Kyoto's famous festival held in July, the Gion Festival, features yamahoko floats. Lanterns that will decorate places such as the floats are being made. A shop in Kyoto plans to produce about ...

one of the climaxes of the monthlong Gion Festival. He will cut a sacred straw rope with a sword to commence the procession. (Japanese original by Yuki Ohigashi, Kyoto Bureau) ...

FUKUOKA--A reveler helping to haul a 1-ton float at the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival ... The accident occurred around 5:30 a.m. on the final day of the two-week festival in which seven ...