Where To Stream Journeys in Japan Season 2015 Episode 24
The Thrilling Nebuta Festival
- Aired September 22, 2015
- 30 Min
The Nebuta Festival attracts some three million visitors to Aomori City every August. Nebuta are giant lantern floats measuring five meters high and nine meters wide. They often depict scenes from legends and Kabuki stories in vivid, 3-D forms. The floats illuminating the summer night skies are an utterly magnificent sight, so much so that they're also called "Art of Light." Michael Rivas, who's from Hawaii, discovers the Nebuta Festival. He gets up close to the huge floats and also dances in...