Chiran Neputa Festival ー
知覧ねぷた祭り
- Festivals
Seven fan-shaped Neputa with heroic pictures of samurai of 5 meters high
and 4 meters in combat painted on their surfaces draw flutes, hit drums while passing through the night streets.
The festival was originally famous in Hirosaki City in Aomori Prefecture and then began to be held in Chiran
according to the children who attended the community party.
Now it is a communication that the northern festival of Aomori Prefecture is held in Kagoshima of the southern part.
It is held on the third Saturday in July every year.
Access and Getting Around
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KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
-Historic Sites
Frankly, it is difficult to introduce the facility.Toward the end of World War Two, a kind of suicide attack that planes...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
Hotarukan or Tomita Dining Hall
-Historic Sites -Food
It was a small dining hall next to the flying ground of the Special Attack Unit in World War II.It was a dining hall for...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Historic Sites
The area of samurai residences with the hedges and stone walls of the Edo period remains unchanged.The characteristic is...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Culture -Recreational Facilities
The waterwheel works are the mechanism puppet plays that perform the power of a waterwheel.It is a precious folk enterta...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Specific Nature
Chiran is famous as a production area of Japanese tea, and there are a few hills on which tea plantation,the scenery of ...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Sea View
Bandokorobana Nature Park is a pool-formed shore and a beauty spot on the reef zonewhere Mt.Kaimondake is seen over the ...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Sea View
Sebira Park is located on the hill along the coastlineand is a superb view spot where tourists can see the most beautifu...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Shrines
Though a small shrine, it is said that a wish comes true if the prayer can pray without dropping the cover of the pot.It...
Accommodation around Chiran
