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[2025 year edition] summer in Aomori is enjoyed fully! The traditional festival and event information full of heat

There are many original festivals and events in Aomori every season the Fireworks Festival by which the ancient rite by which the summer when colored huge "Nebuta Festival" shakes in darkness and makes people combustible very much deifies and wishes productiveness of grains is performed in the winter when an admirable autumn festival and snowfall are deep.
The size of the float and flashiness are the land where I love a festival and don't suffer and Aomori, well. I'll introduce a festival and an event in Aomori where a festival lover of all over the world is charmed.

One of the festival by which "Aomori Nebuta Festival" represents Japan. A tourist visits from the whole country a period of a festival, and the turnout counts 2,800,000 people per 6 days. On every year August 2-on the 6th, about 20 of "Nebuta Festival" moves around a center of Aomori-shi. The size and beauty of the all colored decoration which reproduced one situation of historic figure and myth as the width 9m, the depth 7m and the height 5m are this festival, well. "Nebuta Festival" but every time I approach, a big cheer arises from seats for the audience.

Night on the 6th when a festival receives the final stage into highlights. "Nebuta Festival" 500 for one-HANETO of 1000 people arrives and romps with a shout of "Lasse Ra", and a downtown rises greatly. Marine movement of "Nebuta Festival" and a fireworks event are performed by a night festival on the 7th, and a showy finale is met.

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Could you see sometime, "Aomori Nebuta Festival"! And I feel like thinking it's seen once again (I feel like participating.), you're deifying.
Then show Restaurant in Aomoriya by Hoshino Resorts "Michinoku festival and" can have enjoy a show of four big festival in Aomori such as Aomori Nebuta Festival at any time of the year around.

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Aomori Nebuta Festival
  • The addressAomori-shi center city (Nebuta Festival tour)
    Aomori harbor (marine movement of Aomori fireworks event and Nebuta Festival)
    "Nebuta Festival Lasse Rand" in the blue sea park, specially-installed stage (eve) MAP
  • Business hoursIt's held on the same day every year in spite of (Sat)-a (Thu)※ day of the week on the 7th on August 2, 2025.
    •3 days per 2 days Around 19:00-21:00
    The 4th-the 6th Around 18:45-21:00
    7 day Around 13:00-15:20 and around 19:15-21:00 (at night on the 7th, Aomori fireworks event and Nebuta Festival marine movement).
    ※ There is an eve for rain or shine and 1 day (Fri).
  • TEL017-723-7211 (Aomori sightseeing convention society)

"ritsu Nebuta" in Goshogawara-shi (quality Dummy Float Festival called Neputa) is held from August 4 to the 8th every year. The height by which this feature is a float by far the most. It's at most 23 m and surprisingly, it's equivalent to 7 story of building. About total of 15 including 3 manufactured huge floats hang 1 year, and take the field, and the state which parades a downtown as well as a shout of "YATTEMARE and YATTEMARE" are a word of highlights.
"ritsu Nebuta" in Goshogawara-shi has started in Meiji Period.

Because a plan of "ritsu Nebuta" disappeared by the twice's big fire which has occurred around the Second World War end of the war, this festival disappeared once, but because citizen's volunteer made them restore "ritsu Nebuta" in the second half in 1990 's, a festival restored. Whole time frame of a festival breaks off for about 2 hours from 19:00, and "ritsu Nebuta" makes a tour of throughout the city.

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A float turned to an inspection point at a turn, a point is recommended a little. The huge float which is being seen between the building is the force which is to the extent it's hair-raising! If it isn't the time you're deifying, you can see actual Nebuta Festival at a house of ritsu Nebuta.

Goshogawara tachinebuta (by GO SHO, straw, Dummy Float Festival called Neputa)
  • The addressGoshogawara-shi city MAP
  • Business hours2025 year August 4 (Mon)-8 day (Fri)19:00-21:00
    ※ It's held on the same day every year in spite of a day of the week.
  • TEL0173-38-1515 (Goshogawara tourist association)

"Hachinohe three company grand festival" which takes pride in history in approximately 300 is registered with national important intangible folk cultural properties and UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. A highlight, Mt.nou (O sees.) shrine and Choja, the Mikoshi Shrine matrix of the Shragi shrine and 3 shrines of Jin Akemiya and movement of a gorgeous float. About 27 floats which reproduced one situation of a myth and kabuki appear. A float is biggest and is the huge one as width 8m and height 10m, it develops according to the margin a device takes out smoke, and moves, and which is the way, and if, it's changing one after another, so I'm seeing and don't get tired.

A festival starts on July 31 and about 1,500,000 tourists pay out during a period. All floats are exhibited by citizen square in front of the city office and a center of town in Hachinohe by an eve and an early morning festival, and a musical accompaniment is given a demonstration of by a bandsman (how to grow).

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When a float moves, a device of a float begins to move! I give off smoke, and water comes out, and grouper, also, a doll begins to move, and•••. It's attention in a movement of the float off which an eye can't be taken!

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Hachinohe three company grand festival
  • The addressHachinohe-shi center of town MAP
  • Business hours2025 year July 31 (Thu)-August 4 (Mon)※ for 31 days, an eve and 4 days are an early morning festival.
    ※ It's held on the same day every year in spite of a day of the week.
  • TEL0178-27-4243 (to the one of the bee, Tourist Information Center)

"Dummy Float Festival called Neputa festival" in Hirosaki-shi is registered with national important intangible folk cultural properties. The fan-shaped "fan Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" to which the feature gave a picture of warriors of Sanguozhi and Water Margin. It was drawn with the delicate color, about 80 of splendid "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" takes the field and appears vividly in darkness at night heroically.

The 5th and the 6th move around "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" from August 1 on the 4th in Dotecho in front of the Hirosaki Station. "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" but that I face an intersection, around, there is also production which circles, so I overlook and cry. A performance of a Tsugaru affection tension (JOPPARI) big drum and a kickoff ceremony of "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" of diameter 3.3m are performed before movement in Dotecho. It's the grand finale of a festival by the event called "NANUKABI feed" on the 7th. After tens of of "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" moved around embankment along Iwaki-gawa, I light "Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" by a riverbed, purify and send.

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The "Hirosaki Dummy Float Festival called Neputa" by which a big fan-shaped float is the feature. There is production which goes around around, but it's performed at the intersection which became wide, so an inspection point is an intersection.

Hirosaki Dummy Float Festival called Neputa festival
  • The addressThe Hirosaki-shi center (for "NANUKABI feed" at night on the 7th, Iwaki-gawa river bed) MAP
  • Business hoursIt's held on the same day every year in spite of (Fri)-a (Thu)※ day of the week on the 7th on August 1, 2025.
    19:00-21:00 (Before and after it depends on number, there is a possibility that it's done.)
  • TEL0172-37-5501 (Hirosaki municipal sightseeing house)
  • MemoRain or shine

It's made one of "Japanese three big sink dance" as well as the Awa Odori dance and a dance on the group. The thing by which it's about 200 years before that the Bon dance in Kuroishi-shi which neighbors Aomori-shi became popular. The feelings are much and the state in which many dancers bury the small Mise street where taste in the Edo Period is left can taste the sense to which I have time-travelled.

The "sink dance" a dancer as much as 2000 people dances and which walks the center of the town is dancing in a sitting posture of a Tsugaru folk song, and a shout of "ETCHAHO and ETCHAHO" affects the light sound of the shamisen cleverly. The "rotational dance" which involves an audience between songs, too, forms a ring and dances starts here and there, and the whole town rises.
It's a station square in 17 Sunday . for 18 days, a turret, it's circled, and, "rotational dance" is performed, and everyone can participate by unofficial participation.

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It's said that the origin was the dialogue song of men and women's love when being the Bon dance. The repeat by which "rotational dance" is short movement, so it's by watching others several times, as I dance, it's remembered. By all means, please participate in a dance and enjoy summer in Aomori.

Kuroishi is stopped.
  • The addressKuroishi-shi city (city NO street, Kotokubeemachi, Naka-cho and Maemachi) MAP
  • Business hoursSink dance 2025 year August 15 (Fri) and 16 day (Sat)19:00-20:30
    Rotational dance August 17 (Sun) and 18 day (Mon)19:00-21:00
  • TEL0172-52-3488 (Kuroishi is stopped, executive committee secretariat)

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