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Ichinomiya

Population 378,108 (Wikidata)

Before you go

Getting there

Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Ichinomiya Tanabata Festival

    July

    Held from Thursday to Sunday of the last weekend in July, this is reputed to be one of the three biggest Tanabata festivals in Japan, and attracts up to 1.3 million visitors annually.

  2. Bisai fireworks festival

    August

    Bisai fireworks festival held in August as part of Bisai summer festival, some 5000 fireworks (including some with blooms of up to 500 m) are released on the banks of the Kiso river.

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Ichinomiya); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

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