Yes, the Japanese festival that everyone gets up early for, the Japanese Penis Festival. Actually fertility festival. But no matter how you slice it, it’s a festival filled with massive wooden carvings of penises for you to get your photo taken next to. If you didn’t think it actually existed, here is the photographic proof.

Now before someone comments about the Japanese worshiping the festival, lets get one thing straight. It’s a fertility festival. It’s relationship to Japanese Shinto religion has more to do with worship and praise of nature than it does to do with worshiping penises. During this festival husbands and wives come to local shrine to ask for help or guidance in having a child.

If the penises are too much for you, you can always travel to other Japanese shines that feature female body parts. My personal favorite was a Breast shrine. Mostly because I like breasts.

Via Gakuranman