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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 15 Kyodo - People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years. (Kyodo)

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Hakata Gion festival in Fukuoka

People carry a decorated float in Kushida Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2025, marking the finale of the 15-day event dating back over 780 years.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 15 Kyodo -People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.(Kyodo)

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 13, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 13, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People carry a "yamakasa" decorated float during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 13, 2024, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People run while carrying a "yamakasa" decorated float in a 5-kilometer race during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People run while carrying a "yamakasa" decorated float in a 5-kilometer race during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People run while carrying a "yamakasa" decorated float in a 5-kilometer race during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

People run while carrying a "yamakasa" decorated float in a 5-kilometer race during the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 15, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

A "yamakasa" decorated float is carried at the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 13, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka

A "yamakasa" decorated float is carried at the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival on July 13, 2023, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka.

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Decorated float in Fukuoka dismantled

FUKUOKA, Japan - A decorated float for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka City, southwestern Japan, is disassembled on July 9, 2014, as a typhoon approaches the area.

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Decorated float for Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - "Kazari Yamakasa," a decorated float, for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is shown in Fukuoka City on July 1, 2014. The festival with a history of over 770 years opened the same day.

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Japan to propose festivals as UNESCO heritage

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows people carrying a float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka Prefecture. Japan will propose that 30 more of its traditional festivals, including the Hakata event, be added to the two already registered by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, the Cultural Affairs Agency said March 13, 2014.

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770-gram gold coins for 770-year-old festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - A woman holds a large oval coin made of about 770 grams of pure gold in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 21, 2011. Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveiled the coins that day, a day before putting them on the market for 7.70 million yen each to mark the presumed 770th anniversary of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa summer festival in Fukuoka.

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010.

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through Fukuoka's Hakata ward in southwestern Japan during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float travels toward Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through Fukuoka's Hakata ward in southwestern Japan during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through Fukuoka's Hakata ward in southwestern Japan during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Japan

A decorated float moves through the compounds of Kushida shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival's Oiyama event on the early morning of July 15, 2022. It is the first time the event has been held in three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Decorated float for famous festival in Japan

A decorated float for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is displayed in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 13, 2022, ahead of the July 15 climax of the traditional event dating back nearly 800 years, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Decorated float for famous festival in Japan

A decorated float for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is displayed in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 13, 2022, ahead of the July 15 climax of the traditional event dating back nearly 800 years, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Decorated float for famous festival in Japan

A decorated float for the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival is displayed in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 13, 2022, ahead of the July 15 climax of the traditional event dating back nearly 800 years, following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Floats run in climax race of Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival

A float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka in the early hours of July 15, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floats run in climax race of Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival

A float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka in the early hours of July 15, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Elderly univ. student takes up Hakata festival for graduation thesis

Mariko Doi, a 64-year-old student of Kyushu Women's University, shows pictures and other materials on July 2, 2015, which she has gathered to write about the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, as her graduation thesis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Float runs in climax race of Hakata festival in western Japan

A float runs in the "Oiyama" race, the climax of the annual two-week Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Brazilian pictures float at end of Hakata festival in western Japan

A Brazilian photographer takes a picture of a float on July 15, 2015, after the end of the annual two-week Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival wraps up with Oiyama float race

The "Chiyo Nagare" float speeds through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival wraps up with Oiyama float race

The "Nishi Nagare" float races through the compounds of Kushida Shrine during the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakata summer float festival starts in southwestern Japan

A Shinto ceremony to pray for safety is held in front of a huge float in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2015, the first day of the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Huge float displayed as summer festival begins in southwestern Japan

A huge float is displayed to the public in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 1, 2015, at the start of the annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival featuring races between floats that weigh as much as a ton. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Gion summer festival in Japan's Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Revelers carry a Kakiyama float during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at Kushida Jinja, a Shinto shrine, in Fukuoka on July 15, 2010. (Kyodo)

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770-gram gold coins for 770-year-old festival

FUKUOKA, Japan - A woman holds a large oval coin made of about 770 grams of pure gold in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 21, 2011. Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. unveiled the coins that day, a day before putting them on the market for 7.70 million yen each to mark the presumed 770th anniversary of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa summer festival in Fukuoka. (Kyodo)

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Doll to expel coronavirus

A decorated doll is under production in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 6, 2020, ahead of the July 15 shinto ritual meant to expel diseases. This year's Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at a shrine in the city was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doll to expel coronavirus

A decorated doll is under production in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 6, 2020, ahead of the July 15 shinto ritual meant to expel diseases. This year's Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival at a shrine in the city was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional summer festival in Fukuoka

A float is carried through the compounds of Kushida Shrine in the finale of the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 15, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo