FESTIVALS & YEAR-ROUND EVENTS / October -KANAGAWA NOW JAPAN

End Sept. ~ Beg. Oct. : Odawara Castle Takigi Noh Performance

Delicately beautiful Nou plays are performed against the backdrop of the majestic Odawara Castle.

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Odawara Castle Park

10 min walk from Odawara Sta.

> Odawara Castle

Oct. 1 & Oct. 10 : Kokkei Setsu (Chinatown)

Celebration parades with the Chinese lion & dragon dance.

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China Town at Naka Ward Yokahama-City

5 min. walk from North Gate of Isezakicho Sta. on the JR Negishi Line.

> Yokohama Chinatown

Beg. Oct/Sat. & Sun : World Festa Yokohama

Enjoy world culture, world cooking, world music, & more.

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Around Yamashita Park at Naka Ward Around Yokohama City

15 min. walk from Ishikawacho Sta. & South Gate of Kannai Sta. on the JR Negishi Line.

> Yamashita Park

> World Festa Yokohama 2009 : October 10 (Sat) to October 11 (Sun)

Beg. Oct/Sat. & Sun : Yokohama Jazz Promenade

The largest Jazz festival in Japan. Enjoy live Jazz performances at 120 venues throughout Yokohama, such as the Yokohama Kaiko-Kinen-Kaikan, the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Landmark Hotel, Daisanbashi Hall, and other tourist spots and clubs with live music.

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Various facilities within Yokohama

> Yokohama Landmark Tower and Queen's Square Yokohama
> Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse and Red Brick Park
> Yokohama International Passenger Terminal "Osanbashi Pier"

Oct. 12 ~ 15 : Komyo-Ji Temple "Ten Nights"

Believers confinethemselves in the temple for 3 days for a Nenbutsu service that involves reciting Amida's name.

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Komyo-Ji Temple at Zaimokuza Kamakura City

By bus to Komyo-Ji bus stop for Zushi Sta. from Kamakura Sta. on the JR Yokosuka Line.

Oct. 16 (Irregular event) : Yamakita Omine-Iri

Ascetic practices (nyuho shugyo) of monks. A precious cultural asset which demonstrates the process of an ascetic ritual becoming a form of art.

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Minasegawa Shinmei Shrine

Take a bus from Yamakita Sta. on the JR Gotenba Line and get off at Kajiyashiki.

Saturdays and Sundays at the end of September and the beginning of October : Isehara Tourist Dokan Festival

Enjoy dance, parades, & others

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All over Isehara City

Isehara Sta. on the Odakyu Line

> Isehara Tourism Doukan Festival :October 3 (Sat) to October 4 (Sun)

Mid Oct./Sun : Ichiyajo Festival

Traditional Japanese music and "Nodate" (an open-air tea ceremony) are performed at "Ishigakiyama Ichiyajyo" castle, which legend says that shogun Hideyoshi Toyotomi built in a single night during the Battle of Odawara. Enjoy the emotional and historical atmosphere of the Age of Civil Wars on an autumn day.
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Ishigakiyama Ichiyajyo Historic Park

40 min walk from Hayakawa Sta. on the JR Tokaido Line or Iriuda Sta. on the Hakone Tozan Line.

> Ishigakiyama Ichiyajo Historical Park

> Ichiya Castle Festival : October 18 (Sun)

End Oct. ~ End Nov. :
Sankei-En Garden Chrysanthemum Flower Exhibition

About 900 chrysanthemum flowers are on display.

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Sankei-En Garden at Naka Ward Yokohama City

By bus to Honmoku-Sankei-En-mae bus stop from Sakuragicho Sta.

> Sankei-en Garden

End Oct. ~ Mid Nov. :
Chrysanthemum Flower Exhibition of Kanagawa Prefecture

About 1,200 chrysanthemum flowers are on display.

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Flower Center Ofuna Botanical Garden at Okamoto Kamakura City

15 min. walk from West Gate of Ofuna Sta.

Oct. or Nov. : Yabusame of Zushi

This horseback archery event is held on the beach.

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Zushi Beach at Zushi City

15 min. walk from Zushi Sta. on the JR Yokosuka Line & Shin-Zushi Sta. on the Keikyu Line.

> Zushi Coast Yabusame (Horseback Archery)/Zushi Yabusame Warrior Procession : November 16 (Sun)