Involving some 100 mikoshi and attracting crowds of well over a million people, the Sanja Matsuri is one of the biggest of the thousands of festivals that bring color and exhilaration to people around ...

The huge Sanja Matsuri festival featuring three portable “mikoshi” shrines returned on May 22 for the first time in three years to crowded streets in Tokyo’s Asakusa district and with some anti-virus ...

One of Japan's most colourful festivals, the Sanja Matsuri is a rowdy mix of religious ritual and wild street party Sensoji, Tokyo's oldest temple, is a dramatic complex, its large entry gates flanked ...

The crowds, the clothes, the colors, the communities . . . We take a look at six of the key elements that make the Sanja Matsuri one of Japan’s biggest and most exciting festivals. “I was a young man ...

Every year during the famous Sanja Matsuri in Asakusa, crowds gather not just for the massive mikoshi processions and traditional celebrations, but also for a rare glimpse of heavily tattooed Yakuza ...

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district. The ...

The word matsuri can refer to any occasion for offering thanks and praise to a deity at a shrine. It comes from a word meaning 'to entertain' or 'to serve'. Matsuri is also used to refer to Shinto ...

The Sanja Matsuri, Tokyo's biggest and best traditional festival, is taking place from May 19 to 21 this year. Here's our quick guide to making the most of the over 700-year-old celebration, which ...

“Wasshoi! Wasshoi!” I stopped walking and strained my ears to hear where the faint shouting was coming from. A few minutes earlier, I was checking Google Maps on my phone, looking for where the Kanda ...

This article looks at the Shinto fesitvals or matsuri. The word matsuri can refer to any occasion for offering thanks and praise to a deity at a shrine. It comes from a word meaning 'to entertain' or ...