LAKE TOWADA 56TH SKY FESTIVAL
Lake Towada 56th Sky Festival Brooke Dalgleish Have you ever heard of the Lake Towada Sky Lantern Festival? If not, you’re in good company. I’m about to start my fourth year as an ALT in Kazuno City, which is about an hour south of Lake Towada, and I had never heard of this festival until this spring.
store or buy them personally at the tourism office at Lake Towada. There were two types of tickets you could buy. The most popular one was a ¥3000 ticket which gets you into the festival, but also gives you your own lantern. The second one was a ¥2000 ticket for a night cruise where you don’t get a Around June of this year, I saw it being lantern, but you can watch them from advertised and I thought maybe it was aboard a decorated cruise ship. Checka new festival that Lake Towada created in time was from 5-7:30pm which of to overcompensate the lack of tourism it course included temperature and mask had in 2020. However, I asked my boychecks. friend about it and he said his dad used to go to the festival when he was a little kid. Little did I know that this festival actually happens every year during the summer and 2021 was its 56th year! Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, last year’s festival was canceled, but because of this, they made this year’s festival two days instead of the usual one day. My boyfriend and a small group of our friends decided to go on Sunday, August 8th together, but he also surprised me with tickets to go on Saturday, August 7th. You can buy tickets online and print them at your local convenience 16
