King Kekaulike high school students were announced as the 2025 winners of the Honolulu Festival’s annual Maui Mikoshi design contest.

A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district.

The winning mikoshi design will be unveiled at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Hawai’i Convention Center and showcased during the Grand Parade through Waikiki on Sunday. A mikoshi is an elaborate ...