Lanterns up for the million lights festival

The Kawagoe Festival in autumn each year is Kawagoe city's best known festival. However, they have a summer festival too. Its called a few different names, but locally we call it the million lights festival. Its normally on for two days in July each year. But this year its only on for one day. I don't know why. 

The festival isn't on until the last weekend in July, but they put the lanterns up earlier this week. I think they went up on Thursday. They weren't there Tuesday as far as I know, but they were up on Friday! The photo in this post was taken on Friday. The street always looks beautiful, but even more so when one of those two festivals are on. For the festival in Autumn they put up red bunting. And for the summer festival these colorful lanterns. 

The lanterns are along the main thoroughfare of the tourist strip, known as the old storehouse district. They are positioned outside each building. They light them at night too. If you can't make it to the festival, you still have a chance to see the lanterns anytime between now and July 26th 2025.