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Sawara Grand Festival (Autumn)

Fourteen zelkova-wood floats bearing four-metre Edo-period dolls parade through Sawara's lantern-lit canal streets to the strains of Sawara Bayashi, one of Japan's three great festival musics, in a UNESCO-listed autumn custom with 300 years of history.

9 Oct to 11 Oct 2026 · Annual, second weekend of October
Katori (Sawara district), Kanto, Japan
Free
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