Come Enjoy & Celebrate Buddha's Birthday!

April 8th is the Buddha's birthday.
For the next week, "BUTSUDAN-DORI" will be bustling with a fun festival.
During the day, participants can experience the traditional craft of making "Hiroshima Buddhist altars" and pour sweet tea over a flower-decorated shrine.
In the evenings, you can enjoy delicious food, fine drinks, street performances, and parades.
This is the "Hiroshima Buddhist Altar Street Festival - Flower Festival".

[Flower Festival]
■April 1st (Wednesday) - 8th (Wednesday) 10:00-18:00
April 8th is Buddha's birthday, also known as Hanamatsuri (Flower Festival).
Let's celebrate by pouring sweet tea over the statues of the infant Buddha located in the two Buddhist altar shops on Butsudan Street.
●Location: Takayama Kiyoshi Buddhist Altar Shop (2-17 Naka Ward -cho, Naka-ku , Hiroshima City )
Nishihara Buddhist Temple (10-11 Kanayama-cho , Hiroshima City )

[Traditional Craft Experience Tour] *Reservations required ■ March 28th (Sat) 12:30 - 15:30
This tour takes you to a Buddhist altar shop on Butsudan Street and includes an opportunity to experience gold leaf application and learn about Buddhist altars.
●Participation fee: 1,000 yen per parent-child pair ●Capacity: First 15 pairs (30 people)
●Inquiries: Rextown Kubota
TEL 082-241-4110
●Location: Yokota Anrakudo (2-18 Horikawa-cho , Naka Ward -ku , Hiroshima City )
・Buddhist altar shop Takayama Kiyoshi (2-17 Hiroshima City cho , Naka Ward )
・Mimura Matsu (2-16 Horikawa-cho , Naka Ward -ku, Hiroshima City )
Nishihara Buddhist Temple (10-11 Kanayama-cho , Hiroshima City )

[Buddha's Birthday Talk & Gagaku Parade]
■April 6th (Monday)
◎Game starts at 17:40 (If it rains, the game will be held at Tokuei-ji Temple from 17:40)
◎18:30 - Ceremony ◎18:55 - Gagaku Parade *Cancelled in case of rain ◎19:25 - 20:10 Gagaku performance and enjoyable Dharma talk at Tokuei-ji Temple Hiroshima Young Buddhist Monks' Shunjukai is taking over Butsudan Street!?
The Buddha's Parade will parade down Butsudan Street accompanied by the beautiful sounds of Gagaku (Japanese court music).
Birthday Talk & Music will be held at Tokuei-ji Temple on Butsudan-dori, featuring a talk and performance of Gagaku (Japanese court music). ●Participation fee: Free ●Location and departure point: Rex MB (1-14 Hiroshima City -cho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima City)
Final stop: Tokuei-ji Temple (13-19 Kanayama-cho , Naka Naka Ward, Hiroshima City )
●Inquiries Hiroshima Young Buddhist Monks' Spring and Autumn Association, Tokuzawa, TEL 080-1906-1440

[Butsudan-dori Jack with Murakami Nagisa] Mystery Solving Event ■ March 15th (Sun) - April 24th (Fri)
The Buddhist path begins with "mystery": A new kind of exhibition! A mystery-solving gallery.
How do you interpret this?!
●Location: Shinchi Gallery 1.2.3 (1-14 Hiroshima City )

[Nakachan Music Circle: Street Corner Live on Butsudan Street]
■Tuesday, April 7th, 19:15-20:15 *Cancelled in case of rain. Participating artists will hold street corner live performances at three locations on the Butsudan-dori outdoor stage!

◎Rex MB Front (1-14 Horikawa-cho, Naka Naka Ward, Hiroshima City )
"Fade in"
Vocals/Yuko Tanabe, Guitar/Toshiyuki Morikawa, Piano/Aya Minamizumi - The members of "Fade in," who are active in various locations, have come together!!
The pianist and guitarist are currently also performing at Club OAK on the second floor. Please enjoy their energetic and humorous performance.

◎In front of the 2nd Rex Building (2-10 Horikawa-cho, Naka- Naka Ward, Hiroshima City )
From "LIVE Cafe JIVE"
Katsuhiko Kamitsuna, owner of JIVE, and three others. Katsuhiko Kamitsuna is a keyboard player, lyricist, composer, and music producer. He is the former leader of Yanagi George & Rainy Wood. His representative works include "Hey Darling," "Prisoner," and "Blue-Eyed Stella, Summer of 1962..."

◎Takayama Kiyoshi Buddhist Altar Shop (2-17 Horikawa-cho , Naka Ward -ku , Hiroshima City )
From "Lapis Lazuli"
KOGERA Piano/Yumiyumi Tap/KOHEI
KOGERA refers to a type of woodpecker that is common in Japan. Please enjoy the piano and tap dance performance while imagining a woodpecker pecking at a tree.