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Event Overview

Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour 2018

Date / Time
Eve: November 10th (Sat) 2018, around 15:00-19:40
Main Festival: November 11th (Sun) 2018, around 11:30-18:00
*It will be carried out rain or shine but will be cancelled in the case of a stormy weather. (When it rains, the information such as a place for the performance will be provided at the venue on the event day and also on the website.)

Location
Kagurazaka area (Bishamonten Zenkoku-ji Temple, Akagi-jinja Shrine, Tokyo Kagurazaka Association “Kenban”, Kagurazaka Avenue and other smaller streets in the area, local historic sites and more)

Admission
Free (Geisha entertainment experience is subject to fees and requires prior reservations)

Transforming the Entire Town of Kagurazaka into a Stage to Welcome You to Enjoy Japan’s Various Traditional Performing Arts

Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture) and NPO Ikimachi Club will turn the entire town of Kagurazaka, where tradition meets innovation, into a stage to host Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour 2018 on November 10th (Sat) & 11th (Sun) .
Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour 2018 offers a friendly environment where guests from different generations and countries can see, hear and touch Japan’s symbolic traditional performing arts as well as the charm of Kagurazaka and its remaining atmosphere of the Edo Period. The town and its people will become one to create this 6th annual festival.
Kagurazaka is gaining popularity as a town where the Edo-Tokyo culture and the sophisticated atmosphere of Paris unite and live in harmony. New and experienced leading artists representing Kagurazaka in various genres of traditional performing arts will gather for this festival. In addition to Kagurazaka’s symbolic street-strolling music performance called Shinnai Nagashi and Geisha entertainment, all kinds of performances including the new programs of live singing and folk music can be enjoyed in the streets, shrines, temples and parks.
This 2-day festival will be a perfect opportunity for you to enjoy Japan’s various performing arts in the charming streets of Kagurazaka where traditional culture lives on. With our goal of promoting traditional performing arts and bringing greater prosperity to the town of Kagurazaka, we welcome you all to this unique event that now draws attention from all over the country.

Charms of Kagurazaka

Unlike the rest of Tokyo that has been dramatically redeveloped, the town of Kagurazaka and its stone-paved back alleys mostly remain what they looked like in the Edo Period. The rise of its Geisha district brought to Kagurazaka dedicated masters of performing arts who established training houses here to pass on the traditions.
In the prewar time, Kagurazaka had many theaters where the arts of storytelling were actively practiced. After the war, the French started finding residence in this neighborhood that somewhat reminded them of Paris, whose culture united with that of the Japanese in harmony and created the unique atmosphere of Kagurazaka.
In recent years, the leading local NPO Ikimachi Club has been working with young volunteer groups, local store associations, corporations and shop owners to host numerous events in different sizes mainly focusing on traditional performing arts. Kagurazaka is now gaining worldwide attention as a town rich in cultural heritages.