Strengthening Vietnam - Japan friendship

VHO - On September 15, at Zou-no-hana Park, Kanagawa (Japan), the Closing Ceremony of the Vietnam Tourism and Culture Promotion Festival in Kanagawa 2025 took place after 2 exciting days with many activities.

The 2025 festival was enthusiastically welcomed by audiences, people and the public of Vietnam and Japan with over 200,000 visitors, experiencing the beauty of culture, cuisine , introducing Vietnam's tourism potential and some folk games.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho An Phong speaks at the closing ceremony

Speaking emotionally at the closing ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam Ho An Phong assessed that the Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa in 2025 was successful in many aspects, widely introducing Vietnamese cultural values ​​to the public and promoting Vietnam's tourism potential to the Japanese people.

Thanking the government and people of Kanagawa, Deputy Minister Ho An Phong affirmed that the Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa in 2025 will continue to be a bridge of friendship and exchange between the people of Vietnam and Japan, especially the youth of the two countries.

For his part, Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture Kuroiwa Yuji happily assessed that the Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa in 2025 has left many deep impressions on the Japanese people in general and local people in particular after 10 years of organization.

A large number of people and tourists came to the Festival.

According to the Governor of Kanagawa, along with this festival and the Kanagawa Festival in Vietnam next November, the cultural and tourism cooperation between Vietnam and Japan will continue to be strengthened, and the affection between the people of the two countries will be constantly connected and tightened.

At the Festival, in addition to traditional cultural forms such as water puppetry, dry puppetry, and traditional musical instrument performances by artists from the Vietnam Puppetry Theatre, audiences in Kanagawa enjoyed young music from artists such as Hoang Dung, Pham Dinh Thai Ngan, Isacc...

Japanese people and businesses have learned about the potential for tourism development in Vietnam. The public and youth of the two countries have lived and enjoyed the bustling atmosphere of the Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa in 2025, and Japanese audiences have had the opportunity to better understand the culture, country and people of Vietnam.

Water puppetry performances attract the attention of many Japanese people.

The Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa 2025 has ended with many emotions of the people. Leaving in the atmosphere and overflowing emotions, the audience of both countries could not help but think about the two exciting days of the Festival.

Saying goodbye to the Festival and the audience, the delegation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam expressed their warm feelings to the people of Kanagawa and promised to meet again at the Kanagawa Festival in Hanoi in November 2025, as well as the Vietnam Festival in Kanagawa in 2026.

Source: https://baovanhoa.vn/van-hoa/that-chat-tinh-huu-nghi-viet-nhat-168638.html