Tokyo Koenji Awa Odori

Tokyo Koenji Awa Odori. Koenji Awa Odori 2016 August 30 2016 The Awa Odori Festival (阿波踊り) is a dance festival of almost unimaginable scale held each year in the first half of August in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku (Japan).

Tokyo Koenji AwaOdori is a summer festival that has come to represent Tokyo The AwaOdori or Awa Dance is originally from the Japanese island of Shikoku and Koenji hosts Tokyo’s version of the traditional festival In Tokyo style there are food and drink stands lining the streets and large crowds of people— one million people gather in two days and over 10000 people dance.

Koenji Awa Odori Suginami City, Tokyo Japan Travel

The Awa Odori Festival is held every August by Koenji Station in Tokyo The festival attracts over 1 million visitors and has 12000 performers.

Koenji Awa Odori Dance Festival Japan Wonder Travel Blog

Tokyo’s Koenji Awa Odori started off as a festival to revitalize the small shopping streets throughout Koenji in 1957 Initially it only took place in the local shotengai but over time it has grown into one of Tokyo’s major summer events organised each.

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Koenji Awa Odori The Essence of Summer in Tokyo By Amanda Andrews | August 13 Where Koenji Minami 2 3 and 4chome and Koenji Kita 2 and 3chome Suginamiku Tokyo The parade route follows along the shopping streets north and south of JR Koenji Station on the JR Chuo line A map of parade route.