Sendai Tanabata Festival Tour/Trip

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Sendai Tanabata Festival

3,000 gigantic, gorgeous streamers decorate the city of trees

During Sendai Tanabata Festival, gorgeous and gorgeous bamboo decorations made up of the traditional "seven decorations" of Sendai Tanabata Festival are displayed throughout the city, including along Sendai 's main streets, illuminating the summer in the City of Forests.
Every year, a large bamboo stalk is decorated with newly hand-made bamboo ornaments, some 3,000 of each size, which compete with each other for the most splendid.

At Sendai Tanabata Festival, seven different types of Tanabata decorations are displayed, each with its own meaning.

・Tanzaku...praying for improvement in academics and calligraphy.
・Paper garment...a substitute for illness or disaster, or a prayer for improvement in sewing skills.
・Origami cranes…wishing for longevity.
・Drawstring bag... Wishes for wealth, savings, and prosperity in business.
・Casting a net...praying for a good catch.
・Trash can…Put in scraps of paper and other fabric scraps from making decorations. It represents cleanliness and thrift.
・Streamers...symbolize Orihime's weaving threads.
Streamers are currently the main decoration, but if you walk around carefully you can see six other types of decorations everywhere.
Enjoy viewing the beautiful and colorful Tanabata decorations to your heart's content while feeling the gratitude for peace.