The Thrilling Nebuta Festival - Journeys in Japan - English

The Nebuta Festival attracts some three million visitors to Aomori City every August. Nebuta are giant lantern floats measuring five meters high and nine meters wide. They often depict scenes from legends and Kabuki stories in vivid, 3-D forms. The floats illuminating the summer night skies are an utterly magnificent sight, so much so that they're also called "Art of Light." Michael Rivas, who’s from Hawaii, discovers the Nebuta Festival. He gets up close to the huge floats and also dances in the parade with people he meets in Aomori.

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この日の為に一生懸命物造りに専念するエネルギーは素晴らしいです。作者は愚直にひたすら創リ続ける使命感を感じます。世界にも無い程の作品です。

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Brought back memories of when I was stationed in Misawa and a group of us went to the festival back in 93.

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Whelp hoping to go to this.. bday around there~

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Only rubbish 360p 😞