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Osaka Events

Osaka 2012 events

March
01
Osaka Sumo Basho

Osaka Sumo Basho is one of the six annual big sumo wrestling tournaments in Japan which attracts huge crowds of sumo fans. Tickets can be...

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March
01
Cherry Blossom Festival

The cherry blossom (sakura) season is celebrated throughout Osaka with outdoor picnics during the day and evening. One of the best places...

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April
22
Shoryo-e Festival

This festival features gagaku court dance and music on a stone stage in the Kame-no-ike pond at Shitenno-ji Temple as a memorial service...

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June
30
Aizen Matsuri

One of Osaka's bigger festivals, this is a Buddhist memorial service during which young women in yukata (light kimono) ride kago...

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July
24
Tenjin Matsuri

Osaka's annual Tenjin Festival sees a spectacular procession of thousands of people in traditional costumes carry exquisite portable shrines from...

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July
30
Sumiyoshi Matsuri

An ancient summer purification festival starting at the Sumiyoshi Taisha Grand Shrine and including a procession all the way to Sakai city.

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October
09
Mido-Suji Parade

This parade on Mido-Suji Avenue, with 10,000 participants, celebrates Osaka’s culture and includes colourful floats and a variety of artists and...

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November
22
Shinnosai Festival

Osaka's Shinnosai Festival is dedicated to the guardian god of Doshomachi, Osaka's medicine district, and to Shinno, the divine founder of...

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Osaka 2013 events

January
09
Toka Ebisu Festival

One million people pass through the sixth century Imamiya Ebisu Shrine during the three-day January festival to pray to Ebisu (or informally, '...

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January
14
Shitenno-ji 'Doya Doya' Festival

A festival where two groups of lightly clad (headbands and loincloths only) young men compete for possession of an amulet.

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