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[10 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kurama Fire Festival

[ 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 [...]

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