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 ...

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

“We would like to make this an opportunity for people to learn more about the festival, along with Kyoto’s history and culture ... climactic part of the Gion Festival) on July 17.

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

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) ...

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 ...