By a steam locomotive to Hitoyoshi Castle Festival

Castle Festival is Hitoyoshi-shi of Kumamoto every year on first Sunday of the May.
SL Hitoyoshi leaves Kumamoto Station at 9:41 and arrives at Hitoyoshi Station at 12:13.
You arrive and finish lunch and will enjoy a festival.
By the festival, there are the performances such as a samurai parade / iai / horseback archery /the gun firing.

It is about 2 hours 20 minutes by a normal train. 

It is about 20 minutes on foot from Hitoyoshi Station. 
A taxi can go from Hitoyoshi Station in about 5 minutes.

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The Saidaiji temple nude Festival

The Saidai temple nude Festival is performed every year on the third Saturday of February.


"Saidaiji-eyo" (a naked festival) which scrambled for about 9,000 two Hogi (a sacred tree) said that a naked male servant invited fortune was performed in Okayama-shi in the night of 19th.

Saidaiji-Kannonin is 16 minutes from JR Okayama Station to Saidaiji Station. There is it on foot from the station to around 15 minutes.
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Cherry tree flower viewing and the garden lantern festival of Honmyo-ji Temple

Saturday, March 26, 2011. 
From 17:30 to 22:00.


There is a concert in the main shrine of Honmyo-ji Temple. 

There is the performance of various tones with a flute and a koto and a biwa and a synthesizer. 
A light of 3,000 garden lanterns which going to see cherry blossoms at night and the people of the town made with a Japanese paper is beautiful at the same time on the approach to a shrine of the temple.

It is three minutes to Kamikumamoto Station in JR from Kumamoto Station. 
Then it is about around 15 minutes on foot from Kamikumamoto Station to Honmyo-ji Temple.

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Unzen city all Kyushu pyrotechnician tournament

Sunday, April 4, 2011. 
It is held as a part of Obama hot spring hot water Festival. Fireworks company several companies of Kyushu compete with the latest fireworks with star mine, department of the 10 ball, 2 branches.

It is about around 2 hours 30 minutes by car from Kumamoto Station.

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A tanka feast on the curve of a river bank of Dazaifu Tenmangu(太宰府天満宮 曲水の宴 )

March 6, 2011. On Sunday.
It makes poetry before a flowing cup passes one's front, and it is sacred rites to reproduce the Imperial Court event in the Heian era to have a cup.



There is the place from Kumamoto Station to about around 1 hour 30 minutes.


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http://higoji.blogspot.com/2011/02/tanka-feast-on-curve-of-river-bank-of.html

流れてくる盃が自分の前を通りすぎないうちに詩歌をつくり、盃を戴く平安時代の宮中行事を再現する祭事です。 起源は中国「秦」時代とされ、清らかな水の流れに、盃を流して禊祓（けがれをはらう）の儀式として行われたのが始まりといわれています。 晋の永和9年（353年）3月3日中国蘭亭にて催された宴が、現在の形として伝わっています。日本では、日本書紀に485年曲水の宴が行われ、又続日本書紀には728年聖武天皇が宴を催したとあり、古くより宮中を中心に行われていたことを知ることができます。 道真公も宇多天皇寛平2年（890年）3月3日宮中での曲水の宴に参宴し、 「風光になげうち渡りて　海濱に臥せりき　憐れむべし　今日佳辰に遇ふこと　近く臨む桂殿　廻流の水　遥かに想ふ　蘭亭　晩景の春　（以下略）」 と中国蘭亭に想いをよせる詩歌を詠じられたことがありました。太宰府の地では、「天満宮安楽寺草創日記」に天徳2年（958）3月3日大宰大弐小野好古が宮中での道真公の往時をしのび始めると記されています。 参進 白拍子の舞「紅梅の舞」 日時：毎年　3月第1日曜日（雨天時　決行） 12時 行列社務所出発（太鼓橋を渡り、御本殿にて参拝の後、文書館へ） 13時 曲水の庭にて開宴 ※観覧席は、1100席設けます。観覧席への入場は11時頃の予定です。 ご予約などはございませんので、観覧ご希望の方はお早めにお越しください。 当日は渋滞が予想されますので、できるだけ公共交通機関をご利用ください。 ※天候不順（雨や雪など）の場合は、観覧できない場合がございます。 駐車場情報はこちら 曲水の宴式次第　（※若干の変更がある場合がございます。） 12:00 13:00 14:30 奉献の儀　行列社務所出発 修祓の儀 白拍子の舞「紅梅の舞」 神楽「飛梅の舞」 盃の儀（ 和歌朗詠） 終納の儀 神楽「飛梅の舞」 盃の儀

Fire walking event（木原不動尊火渡り行事）

Kihara Āryācalanātha Spring Festival



Monday, February 28, 2011. 
A walk over firing by the mountaineering ascetic, asceticism are performed. 



★The place.
Ａ-Kumamoto Station →Uto Station→Ｂ-Kihara Āryācalanātha

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A Kumamoto castle Festival schedule of the spring ２

http://www.manyou-kumamoto.jp/contents.cfm?id=704

March 20. Sunday. From 10:00 to 15:00. 

Traditional arts of Kumamoto. 

Myouken Festival. 

A Japanese drum. 

An Ashikita gun corps. 

An Ushibuka Haiya dance. 

The Haiya&Yosakoi dance eve

From 15:00 to 20:00.

Haiya&Yosakoi dance Festival.

March 21. Monday. A festival day. From 10:00 to 20:00. 

A traditional Japanese music concert. 
From 22 to 25 on March. From 10:00 to 16:00.

A primary schoolchild / a junior high student / a high school student concert. 

From 26 to 27 on March. From 10:00 to 20:00.

A Japanese tea party. 
From 12 to 27 on March. 
From 10:00 to 16:00. 
Powdered green tea 200 yen.


Kumamoto ninja historical drama. 
From 12 to 13 on March. March from 21.26 days to 27 days.

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Food Festival of Kumamoto. 

From 12 to 27 on March. 
10:00 or more.

A Kumamoto castle Festival schedule of the spring 1

http://www.manyou-kumamoto.jp/contents.cfm?id=704



March 12. Saturday. From 14:00 to 15:30. 
Japanese drama and Ashikita gun corps Yotugi Japan drum save society.


Song of folk song Festival of the spring. It is 17:30 from 16:00.





March 13. Sunday. From 11:00 to 17:30. 
Japanese drama and Japanese dance and a Japanese drum




 From March 14 to March 18. 
Japanese dance and a dance and keep-fit.





March 19. Saturday. From 10:00 to 16:00. 
Yamaga garden lantern dance. The coal mine shaft knob of the folk song. An Iwato noh dance.





March 19. Saturday. From 17:00 to 20:00. 
The party of the cherry tree flower viewing. 
Sake offered by the Governor of Kumamoto.

Kumamoto castle Festival of the spring

Kumamoto castle Festival of the spring
From March 12 to March 27. 
There are cherry-blossom viewing and the performance of the Japanese drum or a food festival of Kumamoto. 
This link is a state of the last year.
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If you have the plan of the Japanese trip in summer,

Hinokuni Festival is in 5.6 days in August.

There is Hinokuni Festival in Kumamoto　city at the beginning of August.
The first day is fireworks Festival in Kumamoto Castle.
We have " Otemoyan dance" on the second day in front of a city hall.

The animation is a state of the fireworks Festival in Kumamoto Castle.
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14F of the city hall is the best place to observe it.

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Mt.Aso Noyaki（Burning off a field）

There is burning off a field in Mt. Aso from the end of February to the middle of March.




★This is an animation in Daikanbo.

Event of Kawashiri town February and March.

There is the Kawashiri town in the place to be able to go in JR from Kumamoto Station in five minutes. 

There is Kumamoto Crafts Hall there. 

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And this is an event poster and 
an event of February and March of the Kawashiri town.
February 11.12.19.20.26.27 days.
Visiting Kawashiri historic spots.
February 20.
JR liquor train.
A trip to departure from Kawashiri Station Aso.
Departure from 9:30. 17:30 return.
March 5.6 days.
A Kasekawa barge descent.
March 6.
Kawashiri brewing Festival.
From 11:00 to 15:30.
March 26.
A cherry tree flower viewing / child sumo meet

Open Top Bus

An open top bus runs from March 12 to Kusasenri and Aso-Sancho (Mt.top).
Surely I think that the wind of Mt.Aso is refreshing.
The rate is 2,000 yen by coming and going.
(It is suspended at the time of rainy weather and gas regulation.)

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"the Kumamoto band"

An annual "早天祈 father meeting" full of the will of "the Kumamoto band" which youths formed to spread Christianity in Japan was a Hanaoka mountain of Kumamoto-shi in the days of Meiji in the early morning of 30th the beginning.

And the night view from here is splendid.

熊本バンドの志たたえ祈とう会　熊本市の花岡山2011年01月30日

たき火を囲んで「熊本バンド」をしのぶ参加者＝３０日午前６時４５分ごろ、熊本市の花岡山山頂（石本智）

明治初期、キリスト教を日本に広めようと若者たちが結成した「熊本バンド」の志をたたえる恒例の「早天祈とう会」が３０日早朝、熊本市の花岡山であった。熊本草葉町教会や熊本ＹＭＣＡなどでつくる実行委（小山哲夫委員長）主催。

夜明け前の午前６時半、信者や高校生ら約２００人が集合。気温が氷点下になる厳しい冷え込みの中、たき火を囲んで賛美歌を合唱した。

熊本バンドがキリスト教の信仰を誓った「奉教趣意書」の原文を熊本大大学院の山根彰太さん（２２）が、趣意書の口語訳をルーテル学院中２年の田上紅羽［くれは］さん（１４）が朗読し、参加者は祈りをささげた。

実行委によると、熊本洋学校の教師ジェーンズの教えを受けた熊本バンドの３５人が１８７６年１月３０日、花岡山に集まり、奉教趣意書に署名した。若者たちは熊本で迫害を受けたが、京都の同志社で学び、宗教界や教育界などで活躍したという。（岡恭子）

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