Sawara Station is a quaint JR East station serving the JR Narita and Kashiwa lines in Katori, Chiba, designed to reflect the area’s historic merchant-town charm ...

The Sawara Grand Festival is held twice a year – in July and October – in the picturesque canal city of Sawara in northern Chiba. Regarded as one of the three l.

News; Features; Slow-growing evergreen holds its own against elements Fri., April 11, 2008 The golden foliage of dwarf gold thread cypress can create a bright focal point in any landscape. Special ...

Restoration workers have comprehensively renewed the roof with shingles made of waterproof Sawara cypress wood and also restored the two upper floors, as well as its iconic roof ornament, a golden ...

Sawara’s Yasaka Shrine, just a few blocks from the river, is host to a Gion Matsuri every July that features a parade of four meter-tall dashi floats similar to those used in Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri.

Sawara Taisai consists of summer and autumn festivals that look back 300 years, to a time when Sawara, in Chiba Prefecture, was a vibrant cultural center. Large floats, featuring motifs such as ...