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湘南ひらつか七夕まつり(Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival)
7月1日(木)から4日 (July 1 to July 4 (YEARLY - every first week of July))

Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Matsuri (The Star Festival) at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Pref., a 70-min. train ride from Tokyo Station Streets are decorated with Tanabata ornaments and strips of rainbow-colored paper, and many other glittering oddities of fanciful design are lit up at night until around 9:30 p.m. during the festival period.
Access: The JR Tokaido Line to Hiratsuka Station

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湘南ひらつか七夕まつり(Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival)
7月1日(木)から4日 (July 1 to July 4 (YEARLY - every first week of July))

Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Matsuri (The Star Festival) at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Pref., a 70-min. train ride from Tokyo Station Streets are decorated with Tanabata ornaments and strips of rainbow-colored paper, and many other glittering oddities of fanciful design are lit up at night until around 9:30 p.m. during the festival period.

Access: The JR Tokaido Line to Hiratsuka Station

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Tanabata, also known as the "star festival", takes place on the 7th day of the 7th month of the year, when, according to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega, which are usually separated from each other by the milky way, are able to meet.

Because the 7th month of the year roughly coincides with August rather than July according to the formerly used lunar calendar, Tanabata is still celebrated on August 7th in some regions of Japan, while it is celebrated on July 7th in other regions.

In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku (短冊 tanzaku), small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations. The bamboo and decorations are often set afloat on a river or burned after the festival, around midnight or on the next day.

This resembles the custom of floating paper ships and candles on rivers during Obon. Many areas in Japan have their own Tanabata customs, which are mostly related to local Obon traditions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata
www.japan-guide.com/e/e2283.html


There is also a traditional Tanabata song:



Sasa no ha sara-sara
Nokiba ni yureru
Ohoshi-sama kira-kira
Kingin sunago
Goshiki no tanzaku
watashi ga kaita
Ohoshi-sama kirakira
sora kara miteiru


Translation:

The bamboo leaves rustle,
shaking away in the eaves.
The stars twinkle
on the gold and silver grains of sand.
The five-colour paper strips
I have already written.
The stars twinkle,
they watch us from heaven.


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湘南ひらつか七夕まつり(Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival)
7月1日(木)から4日 (July 1 to July 4 (YEARLY - every first week of July))

Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Matsuri (The Star Festival) at Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Pref., a 70-min. train ride from Tokyo Station Streets are decorated with Tanabata ornaments and strips of rainbow-colored paper, and many other glittering oddities of fanciful design are lit up at night until around 9:30 p.m. during the festival period.
Access: The JR Tokaido Line to Hiratsuka Station


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TANABATA FESTIVAL (STAR FESTIVAL)

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Tanabata, also known as the "star festival", takes place on the 7th day of the 7th month of the year, when, according to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega, which are usually separated from each other by the milky way, are able to meet.

One popular Tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true.

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