Kite Flying Festival in Japan 🇯🇵📍Hamamatsu, Shizuoka ❤️🪁 | Japan Buddy

How to Get to Hamamatsu 🚄 Hamamatsu is perfectly located between Tokyo and Osaka, making it an easy and exciting stop on your Japan trip. 🚅 From Tokyo: Take the JR Tokaido Shinkansen Hikari from Tokyo Station – it takes at least 90 minutes to Hamamatsu. 🚅 From Osaka: Take the JR Tokaido Shinkansen Hikari from Shin-Osaka Station – it takes at least 90 minutes to get there. 🚅 From Kyoto: Take the JR Tokaido Shinkansen Hikari from Kyoto Station – at least 60 minutes to get there. 🚅 From Nagoya

Head to the Hamamatsu Festival, held in Shizuoka Prefecture from May 3 to 5, for an uplifting experience! More a tradition of the citizens than a religious occasion with shrines ⛩️ and temples, the festival started about 450 years ago, when kites 🪁 were flown to celebrate a child’s birth 🤱. Over 170 towns vie in lively kite-flying battles during the daytime, with the winners being those who tangle and break their opponent’s kite string. In the evenings, 85 gorgeous floats parade through the ci

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