Japan Hachioji Festival 2024 令和六年八王子まつり City's Biggest Festival

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Hachioji Festival is a festival held ever August in Hachioji, Tokyo. The largest festival in the city. It is organized by the Hachioji Festival Executive committee. In the year 2003, it won the Regional Traditional Performing Arts Grand Prize Award. It is famous as one of the Kanto region's leading festival floats. The floats Festival , which has been held since the Edo Period and is centered around parishioners from the city, is now the main event of the Hachioji Festival. Two shrines are joined together ,portable shrines 御輿 and floats you can see them everywhere .
There are 19 floats in the upper and lower districts. The floats decorated with carvings of dragons and flowers, and at night they stand out even more when lit. All floats used acetylene (carbide )lights in the past, now only two remain and other floats have been replaced with light bulbs. All floats are City- designated as Tangible Cultural Property.
八王子まつりは、東京都八王子市にて毎年八月に開催されている祭で、八王子市の中でも最大の祭である。八王子まつり実行委員会が主催。2003年（平成15年）には 地域伝統芸能賞を受賞。関東屈指の山車祭りとして有名である。現在計19台の山車がある。山車には龍花など彫刻が施され、夜になると灯火によって―層浮かび上がる。かつては全ての山車がアセチレン（カーバイト）により火されていたが、徐々に減少して現在では2台のみとなり。他の山車は電球に置き換わっている。
There are lots of Portable Shrine and 19 festival floats during the last day of the festival.

[@UtolJr]

Wow! awesome festival😮

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@@UtolJr Oh Thank you so much 😊😊