
🏮 Ogawa Machi Tanabata Matsuri
小川町七夕まつり
Ogawa, Saitama (小川町市街地一円) · Every year on the Saturday and Sunday around the end of July
A Tanabata festival held in Ogawa, Saitama Prefecture. It is distinguished by Tanabata decorations that make abundant use of Ogawa washi, a local paper for which Ogawa is known as a production area. It is a traditional summer festival in which five dashi floats, built between the Edo period and the Meiji period, are paraded through the streets.
Getting there
About 5 minutes on foot from Ogawa Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and the JR Hachiko Line.
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