Three Kyoto big festivals

Three Kyoto big festivals 

Let's go to watch a Yamahoko cruise in a climax of Kyoto, the Gion festival!
As for the Gion festival, a contagious disease is prevalent in each place of the whole country including the capital of Kyoto in Jogan 11(869) year, and "the Gion Gion Matsuri" that I pray for epidemic breaking up, and was begun is done with the origin when a lot of dead people appeared and is one of Aoi Festival, the Festival of the Ages and three Kyoto big festivals to line up.


This festival to be held as a summer feature of Kyoto is a thing performed for one month from July 1 to 31st,; but, above all, an eve and a Yamahoko cruise are the highlights. The maximum thing reaches approximately 12 tons among pikes going round and is a big thing of approximately 8m from the ground to a pike head from approximately 25m, the ground to a roof.



<basics information＞
A place: Yasaka-jinja Shrine / 625, Gionmachikitagawa, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi phone number: 075-561-6155
Access: Keihan "Gion-Shijo Station", Hankyu "Kawaramachi Station", city bus "Gion" getting off