The three-day event runs April 4-6 and features a dizzying array of vendors, street food offerings, traditional Japanese ...

Sakura Sunday, an official event of the 2025 National Cherry Blossom Festival, takes place from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, ...

No crowd will gather for the traditional lighting of the 17-century stone lantern ... Festival will be online. But the flame is far from the most interesting part of this unusual symbol of ...

According to local legend, the legendary 11th emperor of Japan visited ... to the popular summer festival. Bringing a glowing romanticism to the winter nights, the Winter Lantern Festival ...

Two days prior to the official opening of the Nagasaki Lantern Festival, thousands of lamps were turned on at a rehearsal on Feb. 7, illuminating Chinatown, the "spectacles-shaped" Meganebashi ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana, is hosting Zoo Luminate, a lantern festival featuring hundreds of oversized LED-lit animals and plants, until May 25. The event, which runs Wednesday through ...