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Happy Halloween. Does Japan celebrate Halloween? When I first came to Japan over 20 years ago, there were no Haloween celebrations until after the year 2000, when "rat land, oh sorry excuse me" disneyland had a Halloween event, and the rest is history. The closest to Halloween in Japan is Obon, A Summery Festival of the deceased. Where family members gather across Japan who are honoring departed relatives, cemeteries are filled with visitors. Temples are busy with festivities that are out of this world cool, where the sake pours freely, and food is plentiful; the atmosphere brings me back to when I was a child, and the fair came to town, oh those summer fairs in Canada where are far out cool when they rolled into town. Here are a few pics of summer festivities across Japan that I love and enjoy yearly, and I am always humbled by this divine opportunity to experience authentic Japan way off the beaten path.

Street dance festival in Japan. I took this image while I was leading a Japan private photo tour in 2019.

Summer Festival Sado Island Japan. I took this image while leading a private Sado Island photo tour in 2018.

Dance Festival in Niigata, Japan. I took this image while I was leading a Niigata private photo tour 2018.

Authentic Japan summer festival. I took this image while scouting locations in Niigata, Japan in 2018.

Summer Dance Street Festival in Niigata, Japan. I took this image while leading a private Niigata photo tour in 2019.

Summer authentic Japan festival. I took this image while scouting locations in Niigata in 2018.

HUGE fireworks, said to be the biggest in the world in 2018. I took this image while leading a private photo tour and the clients requested to see the fireworks.

Summer Ogon festival, I took this image while leading a Tokyo private photo tour 2015.

Kodo Taiko Drummers I took this image 10 minutes walk from my Niigata home, this Kodo troop member is a local of Niigata and my area.

Japan Theater. I took this image at an outdoor festival while scouting Niigata, Japan in 2018.

Summer celebration a this Buddhist place of meditations and prayers is a ten mixtures walk from my home in Niigata. I took this image in the summer of 2019. I was enjoying time with family and friends.

Join me in Japan for your private summer Obon photo tour in 2022
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