📜 Month-long festival in Kyoto, Japan, centered around elaborate float processions.
🔍 Originally held to appease gods during an epidemic in 869.
✨ Witness Japan's largest and oldest festival
🎭 See gigantic, elaborately decorated floats
🎉 Experience lively street parties (Yoiyama)
👘 Observe locals in traditional yukata robes
🚶♀️ Extremely crowded, especially on main procession days
🏨 Accommodation needs to be booked months in advance
🗓️ Main float processions on July 17 and 24.
🌙 Enjoy Yoiyama evening street parties on July 14-16 and 21-23.
📍 Floats are displayed near Karasuma and Shijo streets.
💰 Free to attend, paid seating for processions available (from 4600 yen).
🕒 Entire month of July, main events July 14-17 and July 21-24.
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