The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the scores of revelers, as well as the live festival music and clacking geta wooden clogs. For more than 400 years ...

Japan's longest dance festival, the month-long Gujo Odori in Gujo City, Gifu, is back to full strength for the first time since the start of the pandemic. For this year's event, organizers have ...

On July 13, the Gujo Odori dance festival started in the city of Gujo, Gifu Prefecture. The festival is a national important intangible folk cultural property, and considered to be one of Japan's ...