This paper analyzed how Jizo-Bon, small-scale religious festivals held widely in Kyoto-city, contributes for improving resilience of "cho", the basic communities in the central urban area of Kyoto e clari ed that Jizo-Bon is one of important opportunities for inhabitants to be involved in "cho" except for "cho-nai-kai", community management associations. The results show Jizo-Bon provides "cho" with "redundancy", another key factor of resilience in addition to "diversity". It is caused with characteristics of Jizo-Bon as shown bellow.