Tanabata festivals are a grand celebration of celestial love, based on an ancient legend of star-crossed lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi. While their are several Tanabata festivals held throughout Japan, perhaps the largest is held in early August in the Tohoku city of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. Here you’ll find people walking through the shopping arcades filled with huge, vividly colored handmade streamers, while wearing their summer kimono, called yukata.
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