By YUKIKO KITAMURA/ Staff Writer
July 8, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Spectators crowd around lantern-lit floats, built along Shijo-dori street in Kyoto’s Shimogyo Ward, during the Yoiyama (festival eve) period of the Gion Festival on July 16, 2018. (Yoshiko Sato)
KYOTO--The annual Gion Festival that started on July 1 in the ancient capital will not have its climactic processions of massive, decorative floats--the main highlight of the festival--for the second consecutive year due to the pandemic. [Read More]
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