300-Year-Old Japanese Celebration | Day-Trip from Tokyo to the Sawara Grand Festival!

300-Year-Old Japanese Celebration | Day-Trip from Tokyo to the Sawara Grand Festival!

Find street food, majestic floats & old town charm ✨ That’s what you can find at this UNESCO-listed Japanese festival! Join Shizuka in experiencing the 2024 Sawara Grand Autumn Festival (aka 佐原の大祭 or “sawara no taisai”）

If you visit Japan during the autumn season (or summer!), you may just get the chance to see this traditional Japanese festival (“matsuri” in Japanese) just a day-trip distance from Tokyo in the Edo-style town of Sawara, Chiba Prefecture — roughly 1.5 hours by train from Narita Airport. One of the biggest float festivals in the Kanto Region, the Sawara Grand Festival has over 300 years of history and is a UNESCO Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

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*SAWARA GRAND FESTIVAL LOCATION & DATES*

📍Location:
Sawara City Chiba Prefecture 佐原町 千葉県
https://maps.app.goo.gl/98NpZF5HT1kf4LxQ7
I Sawara, Katori, Chiba 287-0003

🗓Dates:
Sawara Grand Summer Festival: July each year
Sawara Grand Autumn Festival: October each year

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*FEATURED FOODS*

Hashimaki
Kebab Sando
Koedo Highball
Teriyaki Chicken Hot Dog
Yakitori

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*TIMELINE*

00:00 What are we up to today?
00:33 About the Sawara Grand Festival
01:05 Street Food: A Fukuoka Fav
02:00 Street Food: International Flare
03:30 Shizuka’s childhood matsuri memories 😊
04:00 About the Autumn festival
04:13 Street food: Only found in Sawara
04:56 Street food: Cooked in an American school bus?
08:33 The majestic Sawara floats!
09:03 Festival Terms & Traditions
10:21 About Sawara City
11:12 Thoughts & Goodbyes!