Places and articles associated with Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival
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- Hakata Machiya Folk Museum
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092-281-7761
6-10, Reizen-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
If you come to Hakata, why not learning about Hakata culture? This museum shows the old daily life and culture of Fukuoka city in Meiji and Taisho period, focusing especially on urban houses of the period. It is located across from the Kushida-shrine. The exhibition hall features the local tradit...
- Hakata History Museum
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092-291-2951
1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka (Inside Kushida Shrine)
If you want to know the history of Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival, you should visit this exhibition hall in Kushida shrine of Hakata. The picture screens by Mitoma family (traditional family of master painter) depicting the scenes from the generations of Yamakasa festival and magnificent pictures ...
- Kushida Shrine
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1-41, Kamikawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
This grand tutelary shrine of Hakata is widely known and people warmly refer to it as “Okushida-san.” It is dedicated to the gods of Ohatanushi-no-mikoto, Amaterasu-omikami and Susanowo-no-mikoto. According to tradition, in 757, when Emperor Koken was in the reign and Tairano Kiyomori designated ...
- Tochoji Temple
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2-4, Gokusho-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
This head temple of Shingon Buddhism Kyushu sect is given the special name Nangakuzan. It is dedicated to a famous monk called Kobo-Daishi (Kukai). According to tradition, Kobo-daishi set up this temple when he came back from China and prayed for the eastward dissemination of Tantric Buddhism. Th...
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