DirectRooms.com – See the giant light pyramids paraded through Fukuoka from 22 to 24 July 2011

DirectRooms.com announces that Tobata in Japan will be holding special celebrations at the end of July for a unique festival where huge floats containing hundreds of lanterns form a procession through the streets.
By: Lek Boonlert
 
June 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Tobata Gion Yamagasa Festival is one of Japan’s main cultural festivals and the focus is on the Yamagasa which are large floats carried by men and there are also smaller ones for boys. What’s so special about the Yamagasa is the beautiful embroidered cloth of silver and gold that is draped over the floats and these will be carried through the city during the day.

At night is when the floats look especially spectacular however and visitors will see them transformed as the cloth is replaced with exactly 309 lanterns made from paper. The lanterns are then arranged over 12 levels to look like giant pyramids approximately 10m tall and they weigh in at around 2.5 tons each. In keeping with tradition, the floats are carried entirely by manpower and it takes from between 60 to 100 men to lift them.

Visitors staying in Fukuoka hotels (http://directrooms.com/japan/hotels/fukuoka-hotels/price1.htm) will need to head to Tobata, which is a ward within Kitakyushu city in the prefecture, from 22nd to 24th July 2011 to catch the show.

Lek Boonlert, marketing head at DirectRooms.com commented: “Hotels are extremely busy over this traditional festival as thousands of people come to watch and rooms will be hard to find if people don’t book ahead in time.”

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