This is the Daimonji Fire Festival video for 2010. 9 minutes, 16:9.

2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.
Video coming tomorrow. Here are some screengrabs in the meantime. Got home too late to do the whole edit tonite. Refer to previous post for details.

2010 Daimonji Fire Festival Video is here.
map of the daimonji fire festival

Daimonji video 2008

Every August 16 since the 1600s, Kyoto marks the end of o-Bon season by lighting up the hillsides with giant kanji, starting at 8 p.m. It’s called Daimonji Gozan Okuribi, literally “Giant characters five mountains sendoff fires.” This marks their function as [...]

Northern Kyoto sakura (North of Imadegawa Street) are in fine bloom right now. Anything south of Imadegawa is fading and falling now, which is beautiful in it’s own way and worth seeing.
More new pictures at my flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyoto/

A little early look at the sakura along Tetsugaku no michi, The Philosopher’s Path, in northeastern Kyoto.

Kyoto Sakura 2010 preview from kyotonils on Vimeo.

Omiya Kotsu Koen
This park has go-karts on simulated city streets with traffic signals and crosswalks for kids to learn about traffic safety. Also an old steam locomotive and old streetcars from Kyoto, pedal carts. It’s a good place for a o-hanami because there is a grass-covered knoll with many sakura. They weren’t in bloom yet, [...]

[ March 13, 2010 6:00 pm to March 22, 2010 9:30 pm. ] The annual Higashiyama hana-touro evening lantern walk event will be held March 13-22 from 18:00-21:30 nightly in eastern Kyoto, between Shoren-in Temple and Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The streets and stone-paved alleys of eastern Kyoto will be lined with electric lanterns, and artistic illumination displays are presented at temples along the route. Creatively-lighted floral displays can be [...]

I’m going to be offering a Kyoto Sakura DVD for sale this spring for the first time. Music composed, performed and licensed by Kevin Macleod.

Watch Kyoto Sakura preview on Vimeo.

[ November 13, 2009 5:00 pm to November 29, 2009 9:00 pm. ]

Every year at this time the Eizan Railway, which runs through my town up into the mountains to the towns of Kibune and Kurama, has a “Momiji Tunnel” event that coincides with the “Momiji Touro”  illumination event in Kibune.

Beginning at dusk, the trains going to and from Kurama slow down and turn off internal lights [...]

[ October 22, 2009; 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ]
Here it comes again, the Kurama Himatsuri is held every October 22 in a tiny mountain village in northern Kyoto. Starting at 6 pm with small kids and small torches, progressively larger torches are paraded up and down this one-street town by teams in traditional costume, as a thumping taiko beat stokes the [...]