Tanabata Star Festival at the Seattle Japanese Garden
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sun, 07/07/2024
Join us for the annual Japanese star festival! Tanabata 七夕 at the garden is a family-friendly event that we celebrate with magnificent colors, craft making, and a tradition of writing wishes. This year, we are going to celebrate on July 6th (as our Family Saturday event) and on July 7th, original Tanabata day.
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The origin of Tanabata comes from the legend of Orihime and Hikoboshi, star crossed lovers separated by the Milky Way. Each year on the evening of July 7th, Orihime and Hikoboshi are allowed to reunite for one night only. In Japan, Tanabata is celebrated by decorating bamboo branches with origami ornaments and tanzaku, poems or wishes written on small strips of paper.
Or garden visitors will have the opportunity to write wishes and tie them to bamboo sticks in the garden.
Admission to the garden will be FREE for youth 12 and under from 10am-2pm on Saturday 7/6. Final entry to the garden is 45 minutes before closing.
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Organization:
Seattle Japanese GardenLocation:
1075 Lake Washington Boulevard East
Seattle, WA, 98112United States
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Phone:
(206) 684-4725Contact name:
Seattle Japanese Garden
Email address:
The event has already taken place on this date:
07/07/2024
Time:
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Price:
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