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*''Suzuka'' : '''[[Nejaka Buddha Festival]]'''
 
*''Suzuka'' : '''[[Nejaka Buddha Festival]]'''
 
*:For two days a year in mid-March, a shrine in downtown Suzuka unveils its sleeping Buddha images.
 
*:For two days a year in mid-March, a shrine in downtown Suzuka unveils its sleeping Buddha images.
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*''Kameyama'' : '''[[Ōichi]]'''
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*:A three-day festival that celebrates Kameyama's heritage as stop in the Tōkaido.
  
 
==Central Mie==
 
==Central Mie==

Revision as of 11:35, 21 May 2013

Listing of the top festivals in Mie and beyond.

Northern Mie

  • Kuwana : Age-Uma Festival
    This ridiculously dangerous May matsri consists of a horse getting lifted up to the top of a large wall
  • Suzuka : Nejaka Buddha Festival
    For two days a year in mid-March, a shrine in downtown Suzuka unveils its sleeping Buddha images.
  • Kameyama : Ōichi
    A three-day festival that celebrates Kameyama's heritage as stop in the Tōkaido.

Central Mie

  • Meiwa : Saiō Festival
    Two-day event in early June commemorating the arrival of the Saiō, a Heian-era imperial princess, in Meiwa

Eastern Mie

  • Shima : Ise-Ebi Festival
    Watch giant lobster floats get paraded through the streets at this June matsuri

Western Mie

  • Iga : Ninja Fest
    Get dressed up in authentic ninja garb, wander downtown Ueno, and test your ninja skills on weekends in April

Southern Mie

  • Owase : YaYa Festival
    One of the craziest festivals in Mie, four days in the middle of Winter.
  • Kumano : Kumano Fireworks
    Mie's biggest fireworks spectacular! Every year on August 17th.

Outside Mie

  • Komaki : Penis Festival
    The legendary fertility festival, held each year on March 15th in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, just north of Nagoya.
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