The Aomori Nebuta festival is a highlight of the Tohoku summer. The giant Nebuta floats decorated with fierce, demonic warriors take center stage in this awesome event. The festival goes back more than 300 years and started out as a gentle ceremony of releasing floating lanterns on the river and sea to ward off evil spirits. Many pioneers from the Kanto and Kansai regions settled in the frontier province of Aomori during the Edo period and the festivities grew in scale as they brought with them the culture of the woodblock prints, Gion festival etc. We focus on the beauty of the Nebuta.
