Tokyo Koenji Awaodori Dance Festival
The Tokyo Koenji Awaodori Dance Festival is held annually on the last Saturday and Sunday of August and is one of the three largest festivals held in Tokyo each summer. This year marks the 52nd year of the festival and events are scheduled for on Saturday, August 23rd and Sunday, August 24th from 6-9PM. So what is the Awaodori? The Awaodori is a dance that originated on Shikoku Island in southern Japan’s Tokushima prefecture over 400 hundred years ago. Some say that it started as a dance of celebration performed upon the completion of the the Tokushima Castle in 1587 …read more
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