Saturday, August 8, 2009

仙台七夕まつり(sendai tanabata matsuri): Sendai Tanabata Festival

There was one of the three biggest festivals in Tohoku (東北) area recently. It was Sendai tanabata festival. It is held from Aug. 6 to 8 every year in the city of Sendai, another name is mori no miyako (杜の都), the city of forest.
There were more than 3000 bamboo tree decorations in the city. There were more than 2 million people visited the festival this year.
Official site of Sendai Tanabata Festivalis as follows (though it is written in Japanese only.)
http://www.sendaitanabata.com/

When we say three big festivals in Tohoku, they are Aomori Nebuta, Akita Kanto, and Sendai Tanabata.
If we say four big festivals in Tohoku, in addition to those three, Yamagata Hanagasa Matsuri(山形花笠まつり) which is held from Aug. 5 to 7 is included.

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