Chichibu Night Festival
{{Short description|Annual festival in Saitama, Japan}}
The {{Nihongo|Chichibu Night Festival|秩父夜祭|Chichibu Yo Matsuri}} is an annual festival held between 2 and 3 December in Chichibu, centred at the Chichibu Shrine{{cite web |title=Chichibu Night Festival- 秩父夜祭 |url=https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/330/ |website=Japan National Tourism Organization |publisher=Japan Tourism Agency |access-date=9 October 2024 |language=English}} The festival has been held for over 300 years, and has been described as a Japanese UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage item.{{cite news |title=ユネスコ無形文化遺産 伝統の「秩父夜祭」にぎわう 埼玉 |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/saitama/20231204/1100017950.html |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=NHK Newsline |publisher=NHK |date=19 December 2019 |language=Japanese}} In March 2020, the Time Out magazine described the Chichibu Night Festival as one of Japan's big three float festivals, along with the Gion Festival in Kyoto and the Takayama Festivals in Gifu.{{cite news |title=Chichibu Night Festival |url=https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/chichibu-night-festival-1 |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Time Out |date=11 March 2020}}
