Located at Yasukuni Shrine Mitama Matsuri is one of the largest Obon festivals in Tokyo with over 30,000 lanterns. This summer festival is to celebrate the spirits of the dead, and there are performances, food booths, and those oh so Instagram worthy lantern shots.

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  1. Thank you all for watching! If you have any summer festivals that you would like me to go out and cover, please let me know here in the comments, and I'll do my best to get out there!

    00:00 Entrance gate
    03:20 Statue of Omura Masujiro
    09:40 Entrance to Shrine
    12:11 Yasukuni Shrine Hoden
    13:50 Lantern paintings & calligraphy
    19:24 Tying of bad fortunes onto the shrine
    21:51 Small art exhibit
    24:03 Dance performance
    27:05 Back out the shrine entrance

  2. Good work fellow walker. It's interesting how we may do the same thing but in a different way. Greetings from France !

  3. Wooow this festival is incredible! Were all the lanterns individually decorated? This event required a huge amount of effort and it’s nice to see so many people enjoying it. Thanks for sharing 😃

  4. Hi there! Just discovery your videos and they are amaaaazing! really sugoi! Congratulations for this incredible nice work!

  5. Thanks I would've had took a lantern with me home see all of those lanterns I would had took 3 lanterns for real nice lantern festival. Love it this is one of my favorite videos.

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