KYOTO--City authorities gave the green light July 10 to begin work on constructing massive, decorative floats for t he annual Gion Festival--even though the climactic processions are now canceled ...

KYOTO--Tourism officials here are offering premium seats for 400,000 yen ($2,870) each that provide an up-close view of the traditional Gion Festival’s massive float parade on July 17.

Gion Matsuri was restored to ... and another precedes their return. The festival's revival was led by the resurrection of the Ofune Hoko float after 150 years. Now the Taka Yama float, absent ...

Gion Festival is said to have started in the Heian period as a way of asking people to be spared from the plague. Still now, every 17th of July, a pre-festival procession of floats, called the ...

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 ...

will ride on the Naginatahoko float leading the yamahoko procession, one of the climaxes of the monthlong Gion Festival. He will cut a sacred straw rope with a sword to commence the procession.