Aoi Festival
Aoi Festival is the annual festival of Kamowakeikazuchi Jinja (Kamigamo Shrine) and Kamomioya Jinja (Shimogamo Shrine) held on May 15. It is said to have originated in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Kimmei (544), when a festival was held to pray for a good harvest following frequent lean years caused by storms and floods.
Officers of old police and court administration	Rite Held in Front of the Shrines

Gion Festival
The Gion Festival began in the year 869, when people in Kyoto held a festival to pray for the end of an epidemic which was rampaging all over Japan. Since that time, the festival has developed over a period of more than 1,100 years, despite the many wars which took place in and around Kyoto during this period. The spirited support of citizens has contributed greatly to the festival's development. The festival features various events, starting from the Kippu-iri Festival on July 1 and ending with the Eki-jinja Natsukoshi Festival on July 31. It culminates in the Yoiyama Festival on July 16 and the Yamaboko Junko Festival on July 17; during the latter festival, gorgeously decorated floats are paraded through the streets of Kyoto. These events are watched by a great number of visitors from Japan and abroad.
Yoiyama Festival Jyunko Festival

"Daimonji" Fire Festival

Daimonji Gozan Okuribi, held on August 16 of every year, is a spectacular event. First, the Daimonji bonfire is lit on Mt. Nyoigatake in the Higashiyama mountain range. The bonfire is in the shape of the Chinese character Dai, meaning "large." Then, four other bonfires called Myoho (the Chinese character meaning supreme law of Buddha), Funagata (a pictograph of a ship), Hidari (left) Daimonji, and Toriigata (a pictograph of a shrine archway) are lit one after another to adorn the dark summer-night sky in Kyoto.

Jidai Festival
Jidai Festival has its origin in the Japanese year Meiji 28 (1895), when a procession took place to celebrate the 1,100th anniversary of the founding of the Heian-kyo capital in this area. The procession consisted of several groups, each representing a period in history of more than 1,000 years from the Enryaku to the Meiji era. A two-kilometer long procession of some 2,000 people, led by a drum and the fife corps dressed in costumes of the soldiers of the Royal Army of the Meiji Restoration and followed by costumed representatives of every era dating back to the Enryaku era, display the dress and customs of the past millennium.
The Procession of Lord Oda Nobunaga's Entry into Kyoto	The Royal Army in The Meiji Restoration