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Every Flower Shop in Japan Is Buried in These This Week. Buy a Bundle for Your Host and You Just Gave Them Grave Flowers. Survival ▶

Every Flower Shop in Japan Is Buried in These This Week. Buy a Bundle for Your Host and You Just Gave Them Grave Flowers.

shiragiku · white chrysanthemum

seasonal-etiquette-trap #obon

For Ten Days in August, Japan Deletes Every Unreserved Seat on the Bullet Train. Survival ▶

For Ten Days in August, Japan Deletes Every Unreserved Seat on the Bullet Train.

kisei rasshu · the going-home travel rush

travel + phrase #obon

Mid August a Japanese River Fills With Lanterns. Each One Is Somebody Going Home. Intermediate ▶

Mid August a Japanese River Fills With Lanterns. Each One Is Somebody Going Home.

tourou nagashi · Floating lantern ceremony

Cultural Wedge #obon

Mid August You Walk to That Ramen Shop and It Is Dark. The Whole Street Took the Same Week Off. Beginner ▶

Mid August You Walk to That Ramen Shop and It Is Dark. The Whole Street Took the Same Week Off.

obon wa oyasumi desu ka? · Are you closed for Obon?

situational #obon

Every Train in Japan Is Packed in Mid-August. The Country Is Going Home to See the Dead. Intermediate ▶

Every Train in Japan Is Packed in Mid-August. The Country Is Going Home to See the Dead.

obon · Obon, the summer season honoring ancestors

cultural-explainer #obon

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