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Nagoya Marriott Associa Hotel is unveiling a new wedding floral concept created by ikebana artist Mika Otani, marking her first full-scale venture into bridal work with striking new flower designs across the hotel's banquet halls.
The Tamba Sasayama Dekansho Festival returns to Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture on August 15 and 16, 2026. The festival centers on Sō Odori, a mass dance performed to the folk song Dekansho-bushi around one of Japan's largest wooden yagura towers, alongside food stalls and fireworks.
Toshima Ward's local history museum is holding a collection exhibition on the vegetable seed wholesalers who once lined the "Seed Merchant Road" through Itabashi, Takinogawa, and Sugamo, running through September 23, 2026.
Under a new plan to preserve the area's historic character, Sakai City in Fukui Prefecture has designated the Kubota Sake Brewery Garden and the storied Sakai family residence as its first two "Buildings Forming Historic Character" — a first for the prefecture.
Iwata City Central Library's "Iwata's Giant Kofun" exhibition marks 70 years since the excavation of Doyama Kofun, one of Shizuoka Prefecture's largest keyhole-shaped tombs, with around 100 prefecturally designated artifacts on display through August 30, 2026.
Kura Sauna and Cultural Property Inn Moricho, a roughly 100-year-old registered cultural property reborn as an inn in Oga, Akita, has been selected as one of the 30 honorees in Forbes JAPAN's Destinations of the Year 2026 tourism awards.