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Daidogei World Cup Shizuoka in Shizuoka
Daidogei World Cup in Shizuoka, founded in 1992 under the concept that the city itself is a theater, spreads street performances from jugglers to acrobats across multiple outdoor venues throughout central Shizuoka each early November. Expanded from three to four days in 2005, the festival draws roughly 1.5 million visitors annually and is considered Asia's largest street performance festival.
Daidogei World Cup in Shizuoka was first held in 1992, organized around the guiding concept that the city itself would serve as a theater, transforming public squares, streets, and plazas throughout central Shizuoka into informal performance venues for street performers from Japan and around the world.