The annual Okinawa Eisa Festival is a spectacular celebration of traditional folk dance, booming drums, and vibrant local culture, held every year in late summer.
A 17th-century festival featuring a monumental contest where massive crowds pull a record-breaking forty-ton straw rope to pray for bountiful harvests and peace.
A 14th-century Okinawan festival featuring competitive harbor races in massive fifteen-meter dragon boats to pray for maritime safety and abundant harvests.
