Sendai Tanabata Festival

A Tanabata festival held in August in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Colorful strips of paper and streamers decorate bamboo poles, enveloping the city in fantasy-like decorations. Continuing since the Edo period, it is now one of Japan's most representative Tanabata festivals. It attracts over 2 million visitors annually.

Held in August in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, this Tanabata festival features vibrant bamboo decorations filling shopping districts. Millions of ornaments hang from bamboo branches in elaborate displays. Blending Edo-period traditions with modern presentation, it attracts approximately 2 million visitors annually, making it one of the largest summer festivals in Japan's northeast.

Japan's largest Tanabata festival held August 6-8 in Sendai, Miyagi. Gorgeous Tanabata decorations hung along shopping streets reach over 5 meters in height, their splendor ranking it among the Tohoku Three Great Festivals. With over 400 years of history since the era of Date Masamune, it is Sendai's iconic summer tradition.

Tanabata festival held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in August. Bamboo decorated with ornamental strips of paper, characterized by elegant and delicate decorations. Attracting over 2 million annual visitors, it's one of Tohoku's largest festivals. With Edo-period tradition revived and developed post-WWII, it's Sendai's signature summer festival, highly regarded internationally.

A Tanabata festival held in August in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Colorful streamers adorning bamboo fill the streets, brightening Hokkaido's summer. Notable for distinctive decorative styles born from local creativity. Well-recognized as a tourist destination.

A summer festival held in August in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture. A variation of Tanabata traditions continuing since the Edo period, featuring giant human-shaped lanterns. A spectacular procession of light and sound through the Hirosaki Castle town, distinguished from the Nebuta Festival by its unique artistic expression and represents an important Northeast festival tradition.