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Tahara-City Tahara Festival The Tahara Festival is a famous festival of the castle town of Tahara, and is said to have begun as a festival of the Kumano-jinja Shrine in the Edo period. At the festival, the three floats carrying Karakuri puppets, which are designated as the city's tangible folk...	9/14 to 9/16 Kitababa 1, Tahara-cho, Tahara City, etc.

Tokai-City Owari Yokosuka Festival It is said that the festival originated in the Kasaboko festival held for the second generation feudal lord of the Owari clan, Tokugawa Mitsutomo, who visited Yokosuka Palace in the early Edo period. Records show that it was only in the late Edo period when floats st...	Annually on the 4th Sunday of September and preceding Saturday Yonnowari 23-1, Yokosuka-machi, Tokai City

Toyota-City Hachiman-jinja Shrine Autumn Festival In the Hachiman-jinja Shrine Autumn Festival, the float is pulled around the village to lively music played on big drums using small drumsticks. After the float is pulled into the shrine, festive drumming and Bonote (a Japanese dance based on forms of Japanese mart...	Annually on the 4th weekend of September Nagita 29, Gotanda-cho, Toyota City

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