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Kota-Town [Cancelled in 2022]
Kota Kite Flying Festival
(Kota Takoage Matsuri)
Date : 01/09/2022
The 2022 Kota Kite Flying Festival has been cancelled.
150 Kites Large and Small Adorning the Sky
Up until the later half of the 20th century, kite flying was a popular New Year's Day pastime for children. The town of Kota holds a kite-flying competition every January. Participants compete to see which kites will fly for the longest time and which kites look best. The sky is adorned by a wide variety of kites from all over the country, some of them gigantic ones exceeding 18 ㎡.
People with small and medium-sized kites can simply turn up and participate on the day. The festival has lots of other events, including a "wadaiko" drum performance and a rock-paper-scissors competition. You can also get something simple to eat at Yataimura (literally, "Stall Village").
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