First held in 1947, the festival lights up the path to the shrine with more than 30,000 lanterns each evening during the festival. There are mikoshi parades, taiko drum performance, concerts and Bon Odori (traditional matsuri dance) as well as food and drink stalls.
Mitama Matsuri ("soul festival") was founded in 1947 based on a Japanese traditional ancestral ceremony practiced in mid-summer, known as Obon. It's a beautiful summer festival you can experience in Tokyo! Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社/Yasukuni Jinja), is a Shinto shrine. It was founded by Emperor Meiji in June 1869 and commemorates those Japanese who died in the wars from the Meiji era through part of the Shōwa period.
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