Kaminarimon Gate at the entrance of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa is about to get livelier with a Bon Odori festival on Saturday, September 6. Expect to see crowds in yukata dancing around a yagura turret decked out with paper lanterns. The festivities will run from 5.30pm to 8pm along a closed-off section of Namiki Dori avenue leading to Kaminarimon Gate, so feel free to join in.
Bon odori dancing will be held in three thirty-minute sessions, from 5.30pm, 6.30pm and 7.30pm. Kaminarimon Ichinomiya Street will also be lined with colourful lanterns featuring paintings of ladies in kimono on Friday and Saturday from 5pm to 8pm.