It has been decided that "Edo whole country festival" of Chiyoda Ward that has been held in commemoration of 400 years in the Edo open prefecture at the every other year since 2003 is discontinued this year

It has been decided that "Edo whole country festival" of Chiyoda Ward that has been held in commemoration of 400 years in the Edo open prefecture at the every other year since 2003 is discontinued this year. The Ishikawa Miyabiono chief of a ward described in the ward assembly of opening a meeting on the fifth, "It was judged that socioeconomic circumstances had to be severe, and to cancel the festival this autumn".

The Kanda festival and the Sanno festival of the tradition are called seeing "Whole country festival" from the receiving calositas supra, connect the general to the calositas among gorgeous Toshiro Satoe et al., and, up to now, have held the Edo whole country festival.  three times
The float (put out) that remains in local and the vicinity prefecture and the portable shrine (prospect) tour from Hibiyakoen to Palace Plaza, it reproduces at that time, and it has aimed at the sightseeing promotion by the history of Edo and sending the culture.

Participation resident's burden was large because it became the same holding of year as this festival of a Kanda festival once in two years, and the voice to request the review of holding year and the hall came out of the fact that the hall was away from the residential quarter. The budget size was about 200 million yen, and the criticism with "Waste of the tax" had been received also in the ward assembly. Moreover, worry in which support money of the enterprise to which the budget almost occupied half the price did not gather either had gone out because of the depression.

The district thinks the aim of the new shape restart though it discontinues this year. The Ishikawa chief of a ward is describing, "I want to discuss the polarity immediately together with the inhabitants of a ward, the affiliate in the provincial city, and the specialist".

- Pattern of past Edo whole country festival
http://www.city.chiyoda.lg.jp/service/images/d0001174_1.jpg

- Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo--What is the Edo whole country festival?
http://www.city.chiyoda.lg.jp/service/00011/d0001174.html

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http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/tokyo/20090606/CK2009060602000057.html