Ueno Touganeya Hotel

Dream Yosacoy Festival

This festival was held in Skytree (on July) and in Haneda airport (on August).
Additionally, this festival was held in New York!!

The Dream Yosacoy Festival is based on the yosakoi dance that started in Kochi to celebrate postwar reconstruction and has spread throughout Japan. Featuring around 6,000 dancers in about 80 teams, and watched by some 600,000 spectators, it is one of the largest and highest-quality festivals held in Tokyo.
Japanese dance forms typically preserve what has been handed down, but the yosakoi can be described as a tradition that changes constantly over time, incorporating fashion, design, and dance styles of the era. Also unique is that each team rearranges the traditional song “Yosakoi Naruko Odori” as well as local folk songs and lore in rock and samba styles, and is free to create its own dance steps, hairstyle, and costume. Perhaps it’s this flexibility that inspires the sensitivities of the dancers and appeals to the viewers.
This year, the festival expands to new venues at the Central court and Diver City Tokyo Plaza, where a roofed stand for spectators to enjoy the dance even in rain, a tasting contest and stamp rally in the food booth area, and various performances are planned as additional attractions. At the Marunouchi venue, the highlight this year is the dance performed against a backdrop of the renovated red brick building of Tokyo Station.

Data
1st of November 2014 / 12:00 pm - 9:00pm
2nd of November 2014 / 10:00am - 9:00pm

Place
All 9 venues / Odaiba Yurakucho Marunouchi
It takes 30 minutes from our hotel.

Dream Yosacoy Festival Offical website