Location: Kashima
Top Things to do in Kashima
Top 10 Things to do in Kashima, Kanto
Kashima Antlers are a Japanese professional association football club playing in the J1 League with financial backing from the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal.
Antlers is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island".
Restaurants in Kashima
1. Oka Park
2. Kashima Jingu
3. Kashima City Fireworks
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4.5 based on 16 reviews
The Kashima City Fireworks are held on Lake Kitaura, drawing crowds of more than 180,000 spectators in a typical year. About 12,000 fireworks are launched, with a number of must-see displays, including a spectacular series of 108 mortar shells, ultra-large star mines, and star mines that burst at water level, a signature part of any display on the lake. There is also free shuttle bus service from JR Kashima Jingu Station.
4. Kashima Soccer Stadium
5. Kashima Antlers Club House
6. Kashima Jingu Torii
7. Ono Shiosai Hamanasu Park
8. Saito Sai
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4.0 based on 9 reviews
This festival is held every year on March 9th at Ibaraki Prefecture's Kashima Shrine, which is dedicated to Takemikazuchi no Okami, patron deity of the founding of Japan and the martial arts. It is the largest festival to pray for good harvests held in a shrine, and its origins are said to go back as far as the Nara period. Lead by a five-year old child dressed in a suit of armor in the role of the military governor, a group of 150 to 300 children in traditional costumes form ranks from the left and right, and make a stirring sight as they march to the shrine. Along the way, they repeatedly strike together the 2-meter oak rods they carry while slowly marching to the rhythm of the drums.
