Location: Koga
Top Things to do in Koga
The 10 Best Things to do in Koga, Kanto
KOGA is a Dutch bicycle manufacturer based in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The company is well known for its long time partnership with Japanese frame manufacturer Miyata, producing bicycles and sponsoring racing teams under the brand name Koga Miyata.
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1. Koga Fireworks
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4.5 based on 14 reviews
The Kanto region's leading fireworks festival, Koga Fireworks features over 20,000 fireworks launched from Koga Golf Links on the banks of the Watarase River. The starmines set off in time to music, wide starmines, and huge 3-shakudama fireworks are particular must-sees. The festival also offers a paid seating area where attendees can lie down on tarps or lounge chairs to watch the show in comfort. The fireworks are launched from the nearby Watarase Flood Plain, an area of rich natural beauty registered under the Ramsar Convention and the perfect place for a picnic before the show.
2. Koga Lantern Sao Momi Matsuri
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4.5 based on 6 reviews
This event is said to have started when people carrying lanterns out to greet the priests of Nogi Shrine-formerly part of the Koga domain-on their return from a "Tour of the 7 Villages" that fell under the shrine's authority began rubbing their bodies together to stave off the cold. Even today this is called "Okaeri" (welcome back) and is well known by many people. An enclosure called "yarai" is constructed by assembling logs in a specially-designated event area in front of Koga Station. Inside this area, teams of roughly 20 young people support nearly 20-meter long bamboo poles with lanterns attached at the top, and attempt to extinguish their opponents' lanterns while aggressively slamming together. Embers scatter from colliding lanterns in an energetic and high-intensity display.
3. Koga no Oyasumidokoro Saka-cho
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
4. Navel Park
5. Koga Kubo Park
6. Shorinji Temple
7. Takami Senseki Memorial Museum
8. Koga City Minkaen
9. Nakaminato Sea Fireworks
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4.0 based on 5 reviews
Held in Nakaminato Harbor in the town of Hitachinaka, this fireworks festival features a continuous succession of shakudama fireworks and starmines lighting up the night sky. The underwater starmines are a particular treat. The vivid colors are reflected in the night sky and the water's surface at once, making for a magical sight. You can also enjoy a huge helping of fresh fish before the show at Nakaminato Harbor, a major source of skipjack and bluefin tuna and the prefecture's largest fishing harbor.
10. Koga Peach Matsuri
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4.0 based on 20 reviews
There are more than 1,500 flowering peach trees of 5 different varieties growing in the peach grove at Koga Sogo Park, and they bloom with bright pink flowers from the middle or March to early April. The Koga Peach Matsuri is held to coincide with this period, and there are open-air tea ceremonies, local specialty products on sale, and rows of shop stalls run by local businesses. A variety of daily events are held on a specially built stage, including exhibitions of traditional performing arts and song performances.
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