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[Breaking News]Tanabata festival in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan, Aug. 6 Kyodo - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run. (Kyodo)

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

Paper cranes folded by people wishing for the early reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in eastern Japan are hung in front of a department store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

Paper cranes folded by people wishing for the early reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in eastern Japan are hung in front of a department store in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2025, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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[Breaking News]Tanabata festival in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan, Aug. 6 Kyodo - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2024, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run. (Kyodo)

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2024, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Tanabata festival in Sendai

People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2024, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival begins for a three-day run.

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Huge paper collage made to pray for Tohoku

KOBE, Japan - About 700 people take part in an event in Kobe, western Japan, on Feb. 2, 2014, to complete a huge collage, 40.5 meters in length and 1.8 meters in height, using hand-ripped pieces of colored paper. The photographed part of the collage depicts (from L) the "chagu chagu umakko" horse festival in Iwate Prefecture, the famous "Miharu Takizakura" cherry tree in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, and the Sendai Tanabata Festival in Miyagi Prefecture. The artwork was recognized as a world record by the Guinness World Records.

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Tanabata star festival starts in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan, Aug. 6 Kyodo - People walk on a shopping street in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai under colorful streamers of the Tanabata star festival on Aug. 6, 2017, the opening day of the three-day event. About 2.15 million people are expected to visit the city to see the largest and most famous Tanabata celebrations in Japan.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping street in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Sendai Tanabata Festival takes place

SENDAI, Japan - People walk under colorful streamers at a shopping arcade in Sendai, northern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014, as the annual Sendai Tanabata Festival (Sendai Star Festival) begins for a three-day run. The event, one of the largest and most famous tanabata celebrations in Japan, is expected to attract more than 2 million people.

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Cat station master sees kids prepare for 'Tanabata'

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Cat station master "Tama" of Wakayama Electric Railway Co.'s Kishi Station on Kishigawa Line attends an event on July 5, 2014, in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, in which nursery school children adorn bamboo branches with strips of paper before the July 7 "Tanabata" festival.

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Decorations for Sendai Tanabata Festival

SENDAI, Japan - A woman makes decorative paper banners for the Sendai Tanabata Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 4, 2014.

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Preparations for Sendai Tanabata Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Making of decorative paper banners for the Sendai Tanabata festival is under way in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 4, 2014.

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'Tanabata' festival decoration in Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - A woman hangs a gold-foil strip with a wish written on it on a bamboo tree, as part of the Tanabata star festival, at Ginza Tanaka's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on July 3, 2014.

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'Tanabata' festival decoration in Ginza

TOKYO, Japan - A woman hangs a gold-foil strip with a wish written on it on a bamboo tree, as part of the Tanabata star festival, at Ginza Tanaka's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on July 3, 2014.

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Tokyo Skytree marks 1st anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - The 634-meter-tall Tokyo Skytree in the Japanese capital is specially illuminated to represent the "tanabata" star festival on May 22, 2013, to mark the first anniversary of its opening. The world's tallest broadcast tower was illuminated the same night in 12 different colors used over the course of the year.

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Sendai star festival

SENDAI, Japan - Colorful streamers decorate an arcade as an annual star festival begins in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2010. About 2.2 million people are expected to visit the city for the three-day ''Tanabata'' festival.

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''Milky Way'' appears on river in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Some 50,000 plastic balls, each measuring 10 centimeters in diameter and containing blue light-emitting diodes and batteries, float on the Okawa River in Osaka on July 7, 2010, to imitate the Milky Way to celebrate the annual ''tanabata'' Star Festival which falls on the day.

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''Milky Way'' appears on river in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Some 50,000 plastic balls, each measuring 10 centimeters in diameter and containing blue light-emitting diodes and batteries, float on the Okawa River in Osaka on July 7, 2010, to imitate the Milky Way to celebrate the annual ''tanabata'' Star Festival which falls on the day.

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Passengers at Narita airport celebrate Star Festival

NARITA, Japan - Ground staff of a Japanese airline company wearing ''yukata,'' traditional Japanese summer clothes, look at wishes written down by passengers on strips of paper called ''tanzaku'' attached to a bamboo at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, on the ''tanabata'' Star Festival which falls on July 7, 2010.

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Star festival starts in Sendai for 3-day run

SENDAI, Japan - Women, clad in traditional ''yukata'' (summer cotton kimono) stroll beneath decorations for the ''tanabata matsuri'' (star festival) in Sendai as the annual three-day event began on Aug. 6. Some 2.1 million people are expected to visit the festival, which is well known throughout Japan.

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Star festival opens in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - An annual star festival called 'tanabata matsuri' opens in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 6. Tanabata is observed on July 7 in many places in Japan. But Sendai's is held around Aug. 7. Over 2.3 million people are expected to visit the three-day festival which is well-known throughout Japan. Tanabata's celebration originated from a Chinese folk legend concerning two stars - the Weaver Star and the Cowherd Star - who were said to be lovers but could meet only once a year on July 7.

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Hiratsuka's Tanabata star festival held

HIRATSUKA, Japan - An annual star festival called 'tanabata matsuri' is held in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 7. The city southwest of Tokyo is famous for the crowd-drawing festival. Tanabata is observed on July 7, or, in some locales, Aug. 7. Its celebration originated from a Chinese folk legend concerning two stars - the Weaver Star and the Cowherd Star - who were said to be lovers but could meet only once a year on July 7.

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Annual Tanabata festival wishes

Mothers and children in Tokyo walk down the street near Hibiya Park on the day of Tanabata festival July 7, holding in traditional practice bamboo branches decorated with narrow strips of colored paper bearing their wishes. The banner reads Give us harmless pacifiers while other placards say No more PVC (polyvinyl chloride) toys.

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