"Dance of Flowers in Yumemachi" Notice of additional and special performances We would like to inform you of additional performances and special performances of the Atami geiko "Yumemachi no Dori Hana no Mai" that is held every Saturday and Sunday at the Atami Gigi Kenban Kabuki Training Hall. Please enjoy professional dance that you can not usually see. The beauty of the way the kimono is dressed, the way it behaves, and the sighs. We hope you will come and visit us. Additional performance / 2024/12/9 (Mon) 11:00~ (Admission fee 2500 yen) Special performance / 2025/1/1 (Wed) / 2 (Thu) 11:00 ~ (Admission fee 3000 yen) * Cancelled: December 21 (Sat), 22 (Sun), 28 (Sat), 29 (Sat), 2024 Address: 17-13 Chuo Towns, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture (along the Hatsukawa River) Reservations/Inquiries/Atami Gigi Kenban Phone 0557-81-3575 Access / From JR Atami Station Autumn leaves take a bus bound for → Gaoka for about 10 minutes Shimizu Town Get off Fee / 2500 yen (tax included) * 1/1 and 1/2 are 3000 yen * Free for elementary school students and younger Car parking / None (Municipal Restrooms available nearby) Start date: Every Saturday and Sunday, December 9, 2024, January 1, 2025, January 2, 2025 Start time: 11:00 ~ (Performance time: about 30 minutes) Venue: Atami Gigi Kenban

[The 22nd Fukushi Festival] Today, Sunday, October 27, the "Fukushi Festival" was 😆👏 held in at the Welfare Center It's raining every time I'm worried, but it's amazing, it's 🫢 sunny and hotIt seems 🤣☀️ that the weather was waiting for the rain to rain due to the good daily behavior of everyone in Gokase Towns, but 😆 instead it rained ☂️ exactly the moment the Events was over (laughs). There was a bazaar booth with a wide variety of products at the venue, and there were bargains Squid everyone was 👀💡 seriously staring at the products In addition, there was an exhibition booth that exhibited wonderful works created by In the town people, and a wax ball making experience booth by members of G Music Taitai, Restrooms available it was 🤗 a relaxing and enjoyable content The Stalls is also lined up with really many delicious food, and it's 🤩 fun to wander around while worrying about what to eat 🤤💕 for lunch In the stage program, singing, dancing, shamisen! It was a very fulfilling event, and 🥳 it was a comfortable venue where 😌💕 everyone who worked the stage and the audience who enjoyed it as if they were cheering for it became one Restrooms available 😭✨ when I was so emotional that I almost cried while holding the camera In addition to the members of the Social Welfare Council, Local junior high school students volunteer and students from Kyushu University of Medical Science also 😳👏 helped organize the event at the venue, and thanks to the cooperation of the students, we were 🫶 able to create a wonderful Events with a friendly and cheerful atmosphere The October Events, which is Held in in In the town, came to an end 🥹 with this "Fukushi Festival" Various Events will Restrooms available many in November, so 🤩 let's 🙌❤️ 🔥 pay attention to injuries and health management so that we can enjoy Events to the fullest

Atami Gigi Kenban 【Dance of Flowers in Yumemachi】 A place where geisha practice rigorously, geigi kenban. The current building was completed in 1954 (Showa 29)). It was a magnificent building at the time, and it was said to be the best geisha union in the Tokai. Currently, this is the venue for the "Yumemachi no Dori Flower Dance" every Saturday and Sunday. Please enjoy professional dances that you can not usually see. It is the beauty of the way the kimono is dressed, the way it behaves, and the sighs. Address: 〒413-0015 Shizuoka Prefecture Atami City Chuo-cho 17-13 (along Hatsukawa) Phone number: 0557-81-3575 (Atami Gigi Kenban) Access: From JR Atami Station, take a bus bound for Momijigaoka for about 10 minutes →Shimizu Town get off Date & Time: Every Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. ~ (about 30 minutes) 1 performance only Price: 2500 yen (tax included) * Free for elementary school students and younger Parking/None (there is a municipal toll P nearby) * Reservation priority * For rehearsal tours other than Saturdays and Sundays, please contact us. * There is a temporary cancellation

I would be happy if you could experience "Honmamon" by appreciating the traditional performing arts of Japan on the stage, which is a comprehensive art. Traditional Japanese performing arts, By appreciating the stage, which is comprehensive art from,"Honmamon"(the real thing) it would be great if you could experience.

Japan has not only natural beauty but also it has very rich cultural events and festival. Few days ago I attended Ikebukoro Yasakoi dance festival. It was really amazing. May be better to say I was amused to see the dance. Hope next year all the page member could attend this event. Location: Ikebukoro

The Oi Shrine Grand Festival is also called the "Obi Festival" and is a festival in which the god of Oi Shrine returns to the old shrine site (inn) once every three years. Today, for three days including the second Sunday in October, a gorgeous festival is held in the town of Shimada where dainu, daimyo processions, Kashima odori, street stall dances from 1st Avenue to 5th Avenue, and ground dances are held. Especially on the last day, all of them form a large procession together with the mikoshi procession, and they slowly parade for a whole day for a round trip of about 4 km from Oi Shrine to the inn. Due to the appearance and swing of the dainu at this time, as well as the unique form of Kashima Odori, the obi festival has come to be counted as one of the three strange festival in Japan. In addition, since the Edo period, first-class entertainers from Edo have been invited to choreographed dances in each town, Nagauta, and shamisen, and Nagauta in particular is also called "Nagauta Festival" because the iemoto of each school competed for throat.

Some more photos from Asukayama Park! The first monument is a bit difficult for me to read so I had to do a bit of research, but it seems to be a commemorative monument signifying the planting of various trees throughout the park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, and as such, was constructed in 1968, so it's about 50 years old, probably one of the newer monuments of its kind within the park. When I was walking back around the area I saw the dance stage from a different angle and managed to take a photo of the participants through a nice gap in the trees. There were a lot more participants this time so I stopped and watched it for a little while again. At the other end of the park I found this statue of a woman which is actually a statue of the "Goddess of peace" and it was erected in 1974 to wish for world peace and happiness. Even cooler, it was erected by the famous sculptor Seibo Kitamura who erected the "Peace Statue" at Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki. Really cool to see his works all the way in Tokyo as well!

Went to Asukayama Park near Oji Station yesterday. I've passed by the area many times and seen the gondola leading to the top but never knew what was up there until now. It's a really big park dedicated to Shibusawa Eiichi, known as the father of capitalism in Japan. The park has a bunch of monuments and cultural properties to check out so I managed to take a lot of photos and I'll be uploading them over the next few days. I chose a good day to go it seems too, as there was an event going on. It involved some traditional dances (I think from the Oji area), and it involved some sort of sash that kind of reminded me of a kimono obi, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. They had a taiko drum as well but it seems I didn't make it in time to watch them playing, I only heard it in the distance when I was walking to the park. I thought it was really cool seeing all the different monuments though. Many of them were several hundred years old and the Japanese on them was also and older form, so it was hard for me to read a lot of them lol. It was a really enjoyable experience though, so I'll upload some more photos tomorrow!

Ancient times (秋思祭)

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Dancer (from Kametsuruya Event) 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Dancer (from Kametsuruya Event) 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Dancer (from Kametsuruya Event) 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Sennosuke Wakatsuki 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Dancer (from Kametsuruya Event) 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Sennosuke Wakatsuki 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L

Kabuki dance performance: Scene of the ceremony from the dressing room Dancer: Sennosuke Wakatsuki 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , Zeiss 50mm f1.4

Kabuki dance performance: from Renshi Dancer: Sennosuke Wakatsuki 2014 photo: ATZSHI HIRATZKA Canon 5d3 , 24-70mm f2.8 L