"One of the most beautiful summer festival I’ve ever seen in Japan.
The Noshiro Tenku no Fuyajo Council’s “Tanabata Festival - Lantern Castles in the Sky” is a mesmerizing annual event held in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture.
Since 2008, this festival has enchanted visitors with its spectacular display of large, intricately designed lanterns resembling traditional Japanese castles floating in the night sky. Celebrated as part of the Tanabata Festival, it honors the legendary meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi.
This is not considered a big scale festival so there were more locals than tourists during the festival and it wasn’t too crowded so it’s easy to get beautiful photos and footages they also opened up time for everyone to get closer to the lantern castles to shoot!
There are two online bookstores which I used to purchase a lot of Japanese thrift books. They sold mostly manga but I somehow managed to snap a lot of Literature and Poem books sometimes Textbooks.Most books I collected are preloved ones since I can't effort new books ><
Yesterday,my order arrived. I bought just a poem book but the shoplady was kind enough to gifted a shoujo manga🥺❤️