AMAZING SOMA NOMAOI SAMURAI ???? HORSE RACE 2018 Fukushima JAPAN
2018 in rain and sunshine, the Samurai of Minami Soma did many amazing races!! It is the most beautiful festival in Japan!! With some 500 real descendants of the Samurai of the past! With real Samurai Armors and family crest flags on their backs, making for one of the most impressive traditional Japanese events in the world!!
Samurai Horsemen Festival in Soma-Nomaoi, Japan
More info about the festival:
Soma-Nomaoi Festival
The Soma-Nomai festival has been held, quite aptly, in the Soma region of Fukushima for a thousand years and it's still a modern-day thrill ride despite its firm ties to tradition.
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Real Battle Event: 1st Samurai Festival in Minamisoma! [Held in the Land of Soma-Nomaoi] 01.11.2015
Minamisoma City of Fukushima Prefecture, the land of the soma-nomaoi shinto ritual with a history dating back over 1,000 years, was struck badly by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
It resulted in a rapid migration of people out of the region. Faced with this critical issue, a local group of volunteer high school students decided to launch a new event to attract tourists, which is how they came up with the Samurai Festival.
Based on the samurai culture epitomized by soma-nomaoi, it is a participation-style event where outsiders are welcome. It was held for the first time on November 1, 2015, at Hibarigaoka Saijochi, the venue where soma-nomaoi is also held.
In the main field battle event, around 100 participants were divided into the Soma and Date armies, and the event bustled with around 700 visitors.
There are plans to hold the event again in 2016, and people watching this video may also be eligible for taking part in the battle.
Visit the official website ( or the Facebook page ( for detailed information and further notices.
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Samurai Festival Executive Committee
Adeyto LIVE real SAMURAI HORSE RACE @ Soma Nomaoi Japan Fukushima
My dear friends the Samurai heroes of Soma Nomaoi Festival ???? Fukushima MinamiSoma. The Horse Race is impressive and so hard to film as they are so fast!
LIVE in Japan SAMURAI HORSEMEN fight for prize Soma Nomaoi Fukushima
Incredible footage directly LIVE Adeyto walking among REAL Japanese SAMURAI in the center of the field, during Japan's MOST BEAUTIFUL traditional festival where Samurai in full armor take part in a legendary horse race!
These are not fake costumes or actors in a movie but they are TEAL descendants of Samurai families with authentic costumes and their own horses!!
In this video you can see the samurai racing to catch flags that are falling from the sky! Special type of fireworks launch flags in the atmosphere and they are falling down and hundreds of Samurai on their horses are hurrying to be the one to catch the flag! Needless to say they are crashing into each other and it is a very very dangerous thing to do !!
Adeyto LIVE real Japan: Stunning Samurai on Horses @ Soma Nomaoi Fukushima
Soma nomaoi A japanese traditional festival / 相馬野馬追 July 24, 2010
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Soma nomaoi is a japanese traditional festival held between July 23-25 every year at minamisoma-city fukushima Japan. About 500 band of Samurai(knights) suddenly appers and paredes on the street ... Amazing!
OLDEST SAMURAI FESTIVAL IN JAPAN || Sōma Nomaoi Day 2
Hey guys!
This is part two of our adventure in Sōma City, attending the Nomaoi Festival!
Soma Nomaoi is a summer festival, held every year in July in the city of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. Because of its long history of more than a 1000 years, it has been declared an important intangible cultural asset. Over a period of 3 days, spectators can observe the procession of about 500 mounted warriors, horse racing in armours, the sacred flag competition and the Nomagake, where people catch a horse with their bare hands and proclaim it as sacred.
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Soma Nomaoi 相馬野馬追
Soma Nomaoi is a traditional festival that recreates battle scenes of more than 1000 years ago. The festival starts on July 23rd with a parade in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture and continues until 25th (in 2011). This movie is of Sodaisho Omukae (welcoming the commander-in-chief) held at Minamisoma City on 23rd.
Right here is the true samurai. ～ The Soma Noma Oi ～
In the northern part of Hamadori, the coastal area, of Fukushima Prefecture, the Soma Noma Oi is a historical and traditional festival which has been handed down for generations for over one thousand years.
Overcoming the earthquake and nuclear accident, in 2012 the festival is to be held in the same scale as those held in the past.
In Kacchu-keiba where samurais in armor on horseback race and battle fiercely to capture the sacred falling flag during Shinki-sodatsusen, with their thoughts toward the restoration.
Please come and see the story of the true samurais, still inspiring the people of Fukushima.
相馬野馬追 THE SOMA NOMAOI 2013
The Nuclear Accident Victims of Soma Nomaoi 南相馬市長 桜井勝延さん (Pt.2)
震災被災地で開催に向けて苦悩する伝統行事「相馬野馬追い」.
Featuring Katsunobu Sakurai 南相馬市長 桜井勝延さん the Mayor of Minamisoma and one of the most influential people of 2011, Lady Dewi Sukarno デヴィ夫人 former First Lady of Indonesia, Actor Hayato Tani 谷 隼人さん, the Nakamura Shrine and 羽黒山伏 Haguro Yamabushi Priests of all Japan, ADEYTO presents the part 2 of the documentary about the infamous Festival Soma Nomaoi from Fukushima during the struggle with the Great Earthquake Disaster of 2011.
with:
中野 美夏 さん
Mika Nakano
特定非営利活動法人馬とあゆむSOMA
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Official site 相馬野馬追 Soma Nomaoi
All video by ADEYTO.
1,500 Warriors: Shingen-ko Matsuri is Japan's Largest Samurai Festival
The Guinness Book of World Records call it the largest samurai festival in Japan. Tabiasobi talks about the Shingen-ko Matsuri held each spring in honor of Sengoku warlord Shingen Takeda. Yes, he wishes he was dressed in Samurai garb, too. Also, did you know the tabi in Tabiasobi refers to travel, which is severely lacking in this channel? Travel and play, baby. Travel and play.
For Tabiasobi's travel article with pics:
Samurai Horsemen Festival : Soma-Nomaoi, Fukushima #Tadaima Japan
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Mounted samurai in modern Japan - Sōma Nomaoi event
Even when their town was mostly destroyed by the catastrophic tsunami of 2011, the people of Sōma/Minamisōma refuse to let this festival with a millennium of history die. That same summer they carried on with a much smaller event, and by the next year the samurai were back in force to battle on horseback!
Yet one more year on, the conch trumpets and thundering hooves bear witness to the warrior spirit of this coastal Fukushima town as it seizes its own rebirth.
Tōhoku Revival Calendar:
Samurai Festival - Soma Nomaoi Vlog
Soma Nomaoi is a samurai festival in the northern Japan area of Fukushima. It's a 3-day festival with parades, horse races, mock battles, and wild horse catching.
This is a vlog account of the festival. I plan to get around to making a more indepth one sometime in the future.
The cicadaes are freaking loud in the background so they might drown me out at times.
Horseback Heroes at the Soma Nomaoi Festival
Hundreds of people gathered in Fukushima Prefecture for a historical reenactment called the Soma Nomaoi Festival. The battle recreation dates back some 1,000 years and this year's event also marked the area's recovery from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Soma Nomaoi (相馬野馬追) - 3
A traditional horse festival, held in Soma and Minamisoma, Fukushima in July 30, 2012. White-dressed young men catch wild horses and present to God.