| Location |
Yamagata City, downtown main street (Toka-machi, Hon-cho, Nanoka-machi) |
| Date |
August 5 - 7 |
| Access |
10 min. walk from Yamagata Station |
| Other Information |
One of the four great festivals of Tohoku, every evening over the three day span about 3,000 dancers gather to parade down Yamagata's main street. Dancers hold hats decorated with artificial safflowers, the official prefectural flower. |
| Inquiries to |
| Yamagata Prefecture Hanagasa Kyogikai (association) |
TEL | 023(642)8753 |
http://www.mountain-j.com/hanagasa/
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Last Update April 22, 2004
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