NHK2 个月
Core Kyoto Special: Behind the Scenes of Gion Matsuri
Core Kyoto narrator Gary Tegler gets a close-up look at the Gion Matsuri ... Core Kyoto zooms in on the Hoka Hoko, one of the festival's 34 floats Fronting the Hoka Hoko is a gorgeously attired ...
朝日新聞社2 个月
Kyoto’s famed Gion-kaku tower open to public until Sept. 30
It is said that Okura loved the Gion Festival so much that he had the tower constructed in the motif of a “yamahoko” float featured in the city’s annual festivities. At 36 meters tall ...
朝日新聞社1 年
139 subsidized plans approved to lure wealthy tourists to Japan
The Japan Tourism Agency will subsidize 139 travel packages that offer foreign tourists “special experiences,” including pulling floats in Kyoto’s Gion Festival ... at night and then be ...