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The 2025 Aizu Festival will be held in Aizu Wakamatsu City from September 19th to 21st. Aizu Wakamatsu, located in the southwestern part of Japan’s Tohoku region, is known as the “City of Samurai.” Throughout the Edo period, the Aizu Domain was an important stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate and one of the most powerful samurai domains.
This festival is themed around “commemoration and gratitude to ancestors” and honors the 3,000 people from Aizu who lost their lives during the Boshin War, a civil war that took place from 1868 to 1869. The ceremonies will be held near “Tsuruga Castle” (also known as “Aizu Wakamatsu Castle”), it was selected by the Japan Castle Association as one of the “100 Famous Castles of Japan.”
The festival takes three days, but the highlight is the Lord’s Procession (Aizu Hanko Procession), a procession of 600 Aizu Domain lords and samurai.
Highlights of Aizu Wakamatsu
Aizu Wakamatsu offers plenty to see besides the Aizu Festival. For example, the “Aizu Bukeyashiki” (Samurai Residence), a reconstructed samurai mansion turned museum, the “Higashiyama Onsen,” one of the top hot spring resorts in the Tohoku region; and “Aizu Hanko Nisshinkan, where children of the former Aizu clan studied bushido. Nisshinkan also provides hands-on activities such as Japanese archery, zen practice, local craft and painting activities and more.
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