Tanabata is a colorful Japanese festival celebrating the meeting of two stars Vega (Orihime) and Altair (Hikoboshi) once a year on 7th of July.  There is a Love Story behind the festival. The legend tells about a cowherd Hikoboshi and a weaving girl Orihime who leaved in different sides of the heaven Amanogawa River (Milky Way). [...]

New Year in Japan is a public celebration and a spiritual festival. On this day japanese make a symbolic first visit in a new year to a Shinto shrine or to a Buddhist temple. Many people want to be the first to meet rising sun in a shrine surroundings.  Burning amulets of the last year [...]