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東京高円寺阿波おどり

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Tokyo Koenji Awaodori Dance Festival - 東京高円寺阿波おどり is held annually on the last Saturday and Sunday of August.

 

About 188 groups(ren), 12,000 dancers perform Awa dance to lively music and parade through the nine routes set up along the shotengai(shopping promenades), located on both north and south side of JR Koenji Station, and Konan Street of the south. Koenji Awaodori is the second largest of all the Awaodori festivals held throughout Japan, following the one in Tokushima.

 

It also highlights the summer of Tokyo as one of the three largest summer festivals of the area, together with Sumida River Fireworks Festival and Asakusa Samba Carnival.

 

www.koenji-awaodori.com/indexEn.html

www.koenji-awaodori.com/

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Taken on August 30, 2009