The Karatsu Kunchi Festival is a massive three-day parade at the beginning of November featuring huge floats known as hikiyama toured through town and eventually from Karatsu Shrine to Nishino Beach. The floats include a killer whale and the legendary Urashima Taro—a fisherman who was Japan's version of Rip Van Winkle.

2016年11月2日 · For over 400 years, this autumn festival has been held at Karatsu Shrine and is one of Kyushu's major festival attractions. Highly decorated giant festival floats, known as hikiyama, are hauled across the sand at Nishinohama Beach to a soundtrack of traditional drums and flutes, during the Otabisho Shinko held on the second day of the festival.

This is the main festival for Karatsu Shrine — a shrine with over 400 years of history and one of Saga Prefectures most popular festivals. The feature of this festival is the giant “Hikiyama” floats that are pulled through the streets. The floats weigh between 2 and 4 tonnes and may be up to 7 meters in height.

2018年9月9日 · The 400-year old Karatsu Kunchi Festival begins every year at the Karatsu Shrine in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, and is a ritual of sending its deity to Nishino Hama Beach, its birthplace. This festival draws a huge crowd of visitors because of the hikiyama — elaborate parade floats that depict imagery from Japanese culture and mythology ...

Karatsu Kunchi (唐津くんち; the suffix "kunchi" simply meaning festival) is a Japanese matsuri that takes place annually in November in the city of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, on Japan's island of Kyūshū. The event takes place on 2-4 November, when the 3rd is a national holiday in Japan called Culture Day.

The Karatsu Kunchi Festival (唐津くんち) is one of Japan's most vibrant and exciting festivals, held annually in the city of Karatsu in Saga Prefecture. This three-day festival, designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the Japanese government, is a spectacular display of traditional Japanese culture, featuring colorful ...

Every year, between November 2 and 4, the Karatsu Kunchi festival is held. Organized in the city of Karatsu in Kyushu - 45 kilometers west of Fukuoka - it attracts hundreds of thousands of people who come to watch the parade of huge floats which then cross the city.

Karatsu Kunchi is an autumn festival that takes place annually over 3 days from November 2 to 4 in Karatsu City, located in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu in the south western part of Japan. In 1980 the festival was designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

2022年10月26日 · “Karatsu Kunchi” is a major autumn festival, held November 2nd through 4th every year at Karatsu Shrine. The festival celebrates harvests. The combined sounds of flutes, bells, and taiko drums blend with the voices of participants shouting “en-ya” and “yoi-sa” as 14 massive extravagant festival floats, called “hikiyama,” are ...

2021年8月30日 · One of the big three kunchi (autumn) festivals in Japan, the Karatsu Kunchi Festival takes over the entire northern Kyūshū town of Karatsu for a three-day period, from 2-4 November each year.