DirectRooms.com - Satisfy your Senses with Shinto Spirituality 2010 in Tokyo

Online, May 12, 2010 (Newswire.com) - It is an important event for the Japanese people and ranks alongside the other great Asakusa Sanji Matsuri and Kanda Matsuri Shinto festivals.

The main event is the Jinkosai, it's a procession of floats and Mikoshi (portable shrines), and comprises approximately five hundred people. The parade starts at 8am at the Hie Shrine and goes firstly to the Kokuritsu Gekijo, the national theatre, before moving onto the Sakashitamon Gate at the Imperial Palace, where it stops for a short time. Then slowly flows through to the Tokyo Station, Nihonbashi Hie Shrine, Kyobashi Ginza, Shinbashi and returns to the Hie Shrine about 5pm.

Although the procession is a major part of the event, there will be Shinto related activities at the Hie Shrine that includes tea ceremonies, Shinto music and Shinto traditional dancing. The Sanno Matsuri Festival provides the opportunity for visitors to see and experience the old traditional ways of Japan, where people dress up in colourful costumes and participate in beautiful events.

The festival not only attracts local and regional Japanese people, but many visitors from other countries. The head of marketing for DirectRooms, Lek Boonlert, advises visitors to "take advantage of special accommodation offers and cheap Tokyo hotels rates during the festival".