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Introducing Furano
Famous for its lavender fields, delicious melons, excellent skiing and the late-July Heso Matsuri (; Navel Festival). If you’ve been pining for a place where you can strip off your shirt and have a scary traditional mask painted onto your torso before you go revelling, you’ve come to the right festival. Tobiiri odori (‘jump right in’ dancing is part of the fun; as with sumō, it helps to be heavy.
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In case you’re scratching your head trying to figure out the connection between this town and belly buttons, it’s because Furano is in the geographical centre of Hokkaidō: the middle.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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