Nagoya Festival 2010

October 16th & 17th, 2010 - This annual festival celebrates the three most famous, feudal-era samurai heroes to hail from the Nagoya area (Oda Nobunaga from Kiyosu-cho, Toyotomi Hideyoshi from Nakamura-ku and Tokugawa Ieyasu from Okazaki-city) the procession of floats are the biggest attraction of the two-day event. The parade also features their wives, people who were contemporary with them, dancing teams with taiko drums and traditional costumes, marching bands, etc. parading down the street in Nagoya's central district of Sakae.