Hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri is The Japanese Doll Festival held on March 3 and celebrates "Girls' Day". usually hinamatsuri also called girld day in japan. on this day, families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful. The celebration takes place both inside the home and at the seashore. Both parts are meant to ward off evil spirits from girls

on hinamatsuri day, dolls are displayed in the house together with peach blossoms. in order to transferred bad fortune to dolls and then removed by abandoning the doll on a river. the displayed doll take out around mid-February and put it away immediately after Hina Matsuri is over. There is a superstition that says that families slow to put away the dolls will have trouble marrying off their daughters.

The best place to experience Hina Matsuri in Wakayama prefecture is at Kada shrine. It's right by the shore and the priests host the Hina Matsuri there every year.