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Rediscover Yourself in Nakano! Nakano Traditional Kasei Awa-Odori Nabeyoko Kawashima Craft Exhibition Nakano Chanpuru Festa Festival Summer Festival Night Market Enjoy an intersection of life and entertainment, tradition and innovation̶Nakano. Narita Airport Yamanote L Keisei Line JR ine 中野哲学堂 Ikebukuro Nippori Toei Subway Takadanobaba Ueno Asakusa Line Iidabashi Akihabara Nakano JR Sobu Line Kanda Nihombashi Shinjuku Tokyo Tokyo Metro ACCESS JR Chuo Line Tozai Line Shimbashi Shibuya Haneda Airport Shinagawa Hamamatsucho Tokyo Monorail J Keikyu-Kamata R N s arita Expres Keikyu Airport Line “Philosophy Theme Park” Unique and Unequaled EVENT CALENDAR Feb.2 Mar.3 Apr. 4 Renowned “Subcultural Mecca” Monk Warrior Procession Nakano-dori Avenue at the Setsubun-e Nakano Running Festa Cherry blossom festival Jun. Jul. Aug. 6 7 8 Rediscover yourself in Nakano! Nakano Traditional Kasei Awa-odori Nabeyoko Kawashima Craft Exhibition Nakano Chanpuru Festa Festival Summer Festival Night Market Sep. 9 Oct.10 Nakano Hikawa-jinja Tohoku Recovery Festival Nakano Machimeguri Reitaisai Egota Shishimai Nakano Nigiwai Festa Nakano Exhibition 1st Sunday Nov. Tetsugakudo Park 11 of each month NAKANO BROADWAY Charanke Festival Araiyakushi Antique Market Published on March 2019, by Nakano City (Public Relations, Policy Department) ☎03-3389-1111 (main line) ／ 4-8-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku 164-8501 Nakano City website YouTube Twitter Facebook Nakano City Sightseeing website Nakano City Promotion website “marutto nakano” Facebook Nakano City Walking Map website Nakano City Walking Map [ English ] Philosopher and the founder of Toyo University, Dr. Socrates, Kant, Confucius, and Buddha are enshrined （On Nakano City website） The first thing you see when you go through the other. This trend has only grown more diverse with Enryo Inoue (1858 to 1919) made this unique and as well as the many monuments, ponds and bridges JR Nakano Station north exit is the “subcultural growth in experimental business ventures. Find a original park as a place to learn philosophy in 1904. named after philosophical ideas placed across nearly Public wireless LAN service “Nakano Free Wi-Fi” is Nakano Free Wi-Fi mecca” , NAKANO BROADWAY. This is a unique chaotic world in wonderful harmony or fusion The park entertains us in every season with its rich 13 acres. available free of charge to everybody. place where subculture-oriented geek shops and retro-future maze. Explore beyond space and time nature and buildings like the “Four Sages Hall” where Nakano City existing local stores are found alongside each in NAKANO BROADWAY. Enjoy an intersection of life and entertainment, Enjoy an intersection of life and entertainment, tradition and innovation̶Nakano. tradition and innovation̶Nakano. Narita Airport Narita Airport Yamanote L Keisei Line Yamanote L Keisei Line JR ine JR ine 中野哲学堂 中野哲学堂 Ikebukuro Ikebukuro Nippori Toei Subway Nippori Toei Subway Takadanobaba Takadanobaba Ueno Asakusa Line Ueno Asakusa Line Iidabashi Akihabara Iidabashi Akihabara Nakano Nakano JR Sobu Line Kanda Nihombashi JR Sobu Line Kanda Nihombashi Tokyo Metro Shinjuku Tokyo Tokyo Metro Shinjuku JR Chuo Line Tokyo ACCESS JR Chuo Line Tozai Line ACCESS Tozai Line Shimbashi Shimbashi Shibuya Shibuya Haneda Airport Haneda Airport Shinagawa Hamamatsucho Shinagawa Hamamatsucho Tokyo Monorail Tokyo Monorail J Keikyu-Kamata JR Keikyu-Kamata R N s N ss arita Expres Keikyu Airport Line arita Expre Keikyu Airport Line “Philosophy Theme Park” Unique and Unequaled “Philosophy Theme Park” Unique and Unequaled EVENT CALENDAR EVENT CALENDAR Feb.2 Mar.3 Apr. 4 Feb.2 Mar.3 Apr. 4 Renowned “Subcultural Mecca” Renowned “Subcultural Mecca” Monk Warrior Procession Nakano-dori Avenue Monk Warrior Procession Nakano Running Festa Nakano-dori Avenue at the Setsubun-e Nakano Running Festa Cherry blossom festival at the Setsubun-e Cherry blossom festival Jun. Jul. Aug. Jun. Jul. Aug. 6 7 8 Rediscover yourself in Nakano! 6 7 8 Rediscover yourself in Nakano! Nakano Traditional Kasei Awa-odori Nabeyoko Kawashima Nakano Traditional Nakano Chanpuru Festa Kasei Awa-odori Nabeyoko Kawashima Craft Exhibition Nakano Chanpuru Festa Festival Summer Festival Night Market Craft Exhibition Festival Summer Festival Night Market Sep. 9 Oct.10 Sep. 9 Oct.10 Nakano Hikawa-jinja Tohoku Recovery Festival Nakano Machimeguri Nakano Hikawa-jinja Egota Shishimai Nakano Nigiwai Festa Tohoku Recovery Festival Nakano Machimeguri Reitaisai Egota Shishimai Nakano Nigiwai Festa Nakano Exhibition Reitaisai Nakano Exhibition 1st Sunday 1st Sunday Nov. Nov. Tetsugakudo Park 11 of each month NAKANO BROADWAY Tetsugakudo Park 11 of each month NAKANO BROADWAY Charanke Festival Araiyakushi Antique Market Charanke Festival Araiyakushi Antique Market Published on March 2019, by Nakano City (Public Relations, Policy Department) ☎03-3389-1111 (main line) ／ 4-8-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku 164-8501 Published on March 2019, by Nakano City (Public Relations, Policy Department) ☎03-3389-1111 (main line) ／ 4-8-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku 164-8501 Nakano City website Nakano City website YouTube YouTube Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Nakano City Sightseeing website Nakano City Sightseeing website Nakano City Promotion website Nakano City Promotion website “marutto nakano” Facebook “marutto nakano” Facebook Nakano City Walking Map website Nakano City Walking Map website Nakano City Walking Map [ English ] Nakano City Walking Map [ English ] Philosopher and the founder of Toyo University, Dr. Socrates, Kant, Confucius, and Buddha are enshrined （On Nakano City website） The first thing you see when you go through the other. This trend has only grown more diverse with Philosopher and the founder of Toyo University, Dr. Socrates, Kant, Confucius, and Buddha are enshrined （On Nakano City website） The first thing you see when you go through the other. This trend has only grown more diverse with Enryo Inoue (1858 to 1919) made this unique and as well as the many monuments, ponds and bridges JR Nakano Station north exit is the “subcultural growth in experimental business ventures. Find a Enryo Inoue (1858 to 1919) made this unique and as well as the many monuments, ponds and bridges JR Nakano Station north exit is the “subcultural growth in experimental business ventures. Find a original park as a place to learn philosophy in 1904. named after philosophical ideas placed across nearly Public wireless LAN service “Nakano Free Wi-Fi” is original park as a place to learn philosophy in 1904. named after philosophical ideas placed across nearly Public wireless LAN service “Nakano Free Wi-Fi” is Nakano Free Wi-Fi mecca” , NAKANO BROADWAY. This is a unique chaotic world in wonderful harmony or fusion Nakano Free Wi-Fi mecca” , NAKANO BROADWAY. This is a unique chaotic world in wonderful harmony or fusion The park entertains us in every season with its rich 13 acres. available free of charge to everybody. The park entertains us in every season with its rich 13 acres. available free of charge to everybody. place where subculture-oriented geek shops and retro-future maze. Explore beyond space and time place where subculture-oriented geek shops and retro-future maze. Explore beyond space and time nature and buildings like the “Four Sages Hall” where Nakano City nature and buildings like the “Four Sages Hall” where Nakano City existing local stores are found alongside each in NAKANO BROADWAY. existing local stores are found alongside each in NAKANO BROADWAY. ● Yakushi Bon-odori Festival You can join the Bon festival dance around the yagura (a wooden scaffold) in the precincts of the Araiyakushi Baishoin Temple, as well as local eisa dance teams and wadaiko drums. Connect to Nakano, connect to the future. 中野哲学堂 ● Tetsugakudo Park 中野哲学堂 ● Nakano Chanpuru Festa This is summer in Nakano. Some 40,000 people gather from in and out of the city. You can enjoy ● Treasures of Nakano Okinawa’s traditional culture such as Eisa. Nakano Historical Museum hold one of the top three Meiji Ukiyoe artists, Toyohara Kunichika’ s Ukiyoe and variety of rare cultural assets. ● Egota Shishimai It is said that Tokugawa shogun saw this traditional Shishimai ● Nakano Hikawa-jinja Reitaisai dance as well. Tokyo Metropolitan Reitaisai is the biggest festival in the city hosted by Nakano intangible folk cultural properties. Hikawa-jinja shrine with almost one thousand years of history, held in September every year. Enjoy a dynamic view of the parade through Yamate-dori Avenue with the mikoshi (a portable shrine). Inherited Festivals Lifestyle Parks Gourmet history Nakano, a city full of historical Shopping at a friendly shopping Experience peace as you view Delicious looking foods are shrines and temples as well as street. Nakano is known as a the changing expressions of waiting for you all over the and local shopping streets, comes livable city with easy access to the four seasons. streets as you walk around alive with many festivals. downtown areas. the city of Nakano. culture ● Tohoku Recovery Festival Nakano The on-stage event, goods sales as well as Aomori Nebuta and Tohoku local dances, make the area around Nakano Ward Office come alive. ● Former headman’s house / ● Nakano ZERO Yamazaki Residence (Momijiyama Culture Center) The tearoom and the Various concerts and lectures etc., garden of the Yamazaki are held in the main hall and the Residence were built in small hall as the cultural art activity the later Edo period center. The planetarium and the (mid-19th century), and Chuo Library are also found in the are open to the public same building. only in the spring and the autumn. ● Kasei Awa-odori Festival It is the big event promoted by Toritsu-Kasei Shopping Street Promotion Association. ● Egota-no-Mori Park
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