The Gion Festival has two climactic parts to it: the Saki Matsuri (first festival) and the Ato Matsuri (latter festival). Each part culminates in a massive parade of floats called the “Yamahoko ...

KYOTO--Tourism officials here are offering premium seats for 400,000 yen ($2,870) each that provide an up-close view of the traditional Gion Festival’s massive float parade on July 17.

The parade of decorative floats is the highlight of the annual Gion Festival, a celebration that began in the Heian period in the hope of ending the plague. Onlookers applauded when a boy ...

A short documentary about the local "Gion" festival in the village of Misakubo. Director Teiichi Hori's second film in a series of documentaries about the Tenryū region, after Besshō Tea Factory.

Core Kyoto zooms in on the Hoka Hoko, one of the festival's 34 floats Fronting the ... owl motif There are few festivals in the world like Gion Matsuri for its scope, grandeur and associated ...