The Nippon Domannaka Matsuri, or simply "Domannaka Matsuri," is the largest dance festival in central Japan. The festival is held in the city of Nagoya in central Japan in midsummer. Dancers from all over Japan and abroad gather in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, at the end of August each year. Their dances, original music, and costumes full of local cultural heritage attract many audiences. 
The Nagoya Dance Festival began in 1999, when it was originally founded by several university students to realize their dream: to hold a dance festival that would spread the charm of Nagoya's dance to the world. The first dance festival had only 26 dance teams and 1,500 performers. Today, the dance festival has attracted 200 dance teams from home and abroad, 20,000 performers, and about 2 million spectators. It has become one of the largest dance festivals in Japan. 
According to the festival rules, the music must include folk melodies from the contestants' hometowns. Therefore, the participating teams need to prepare original dances and music that can show the local culture. The greatest feature and charm of Domatsuri is that it connects people from different regions and countries, providing them with opportunities to stimulate the vitality of local communities and create and pass on new forms of cultural expression. 

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The lines weren&#39;t really long. I could have finished the day, first going to Universal Studios, then here. There were no lines at all for the attractions. It felt like a large children&#39;s park, like the Jinjiang Amusement Park I used to play in as a kid&mdash;no leg strain, and you could play in the water. It&#39;s probably located by the sea, and the breeze made it quite comfortable in the evening.

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We went there at night.
We were rushing to see time-limited attractions during the day.
The shrine is open all day, so we went there at night.
There were not many people in the shrine.
We saw several buildings with ancient charm.
We also saw a wine association listing various wines, which was very interesting.

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