🏮 Kawagoe Hikawa Matsuri
川越氷川祭
Kawagoe, Saitama (Kawagoe City Hall Front) · Every year on the 3rd Sunday of October and the preceding Saturday (or 14–15 October if they fall on Saturday and Sunday)
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Rooms around Kawagoe, Saitama fill up while the festival is on.
This is the festival of Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, held every year on the third Sunday of October and the Saturday before it, and it is commonly called the Kawagoe Festival. Over the two days it draws more than 800,000 visitors, and it has been designated a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
Getting there
About 1000 m from Hon-Kawagoe Station
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