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All Festival 241 Market 45 Gathering 61 Residency 27 Workshop 22 Community 2
All regions Hokkaido 14 Tohoku 67 Kanto 63 Chubu 77 Kinki 64 Chugoku 39 Shikoku 13 Kyushu 47 Okinawa 12 Other 12
October 2026 3 events
Festival Chugoku K
10/09–10/11
Kotohira-gu Reitaisai (Konpira Grand Festival)
Kotohira-gu, Kotohira, Kagawa
Everyone in Japan seems to know Konpira-san, the sea god who lives, improbably, halfway up a mountain in Kagawa. Sailors
Festival Chugoku S
10/14–10/17
Saijo Festival
Isono Shrine and others, Saijo, Ehime
In the autumn, ornate floats wade into a river. Saijo's festival fields more than a hundred floats, called danjiri, and
Festival Chugoku N
10/16–10/18
Niihama Taiko Festival
When autumn comes, the men gather beneath the drum floats. Niihama, in Ehime. Each taikodai weighs around three tons, s
February 2027 1 events
Festival Chugoku T
02/13–02/15
Tsubaki Matsuri (Camellia Festival)
Iyozu-hiko-no-mikoto Shrine, 2-2-1 Iai, Matsuyama, Ehime
At midnight on the first day a great drum sounds. From then on it does not stop for seventy-two hours, night or day. Iy
Year-round
Festival Chugoku I
Daily
Iwami Kagura
Across the Iwami region of western Shimane (Hamada, Masuda, Oda and others)
Serpents writhe across the entire stage. In the Iwami region of western Shimane, performers in dazzling masks and embroi
Festival Chugoku T
毎年7月
Tsuwano Sagi-mai: The Heron Dance
Yasaka Shrine, Tsuwano, Kanoashi, Shimane
Two men dressed as white herons enter the stream that runs through the center of Tsuwano. Their wings open slowly as the
Festival Chugoku T
毎年6月第1金・土・日
Toka-san: Hiroshima's First Yukata Festival
Enko-ji Temple, Nakaku, Hiroshima
June arrives in Hiroshima wearing a yukata. The Toka-san festival — centered on Enko-ji Temple and spreading through the
Festival Chugoku D
毎年8月第3土曜
Daisen Hi Matsuri: Fire at the Foot of the Sacred Mountain
Around Daisen-ji Temple, Daisen Town, Saihaku-gun, Tottori
Daisen is the highest mountain in the Chugoku region — a dormant volcano with a shape that has led it to be called the F
Festival Chugoku H
毎年12月第4土曜
Hofu Hadakamairi: Bare-Chested Pilgrimage in Midwinter
Hofu Tenmangu Shrine, Hofu City, Yamaguchi
On the fourth Saturday of December, after midnight, men in white loincloths and bare feet walk the approach to Hofu Tenm
Festival Chugoku M
2026年8月中旬（例年8月）
Matsuyama Festival Fireworks
Shigenobu River, Matsuyama, Ehime
In the town of the Dogo hot spring, you watch the fireworks. Matsuyama, the largest city on Shikoku, is home to Dogo Ons
Festival Chugoku W
毎年12月第1日曜
Waraiko Laughing Ritual
1143 Daido Omata, Hofu, Yamaguchi
In the farming hamlet of Omata, on the Seto Inland Sea side of Yamaguchi, grown men in formal crested kimono sit facing
Festival Chugoku M
毎年5月3日・4日
Misasa Hanayu Festival & Jinsho Tug-of-War
Misasa Onsen town, Misasa, Tottori
The rope is made entirely of wild wisteria vine — two ropes, in fact, male and female, each eighty meters long and two t
Festival Chugoku S
例年4月中旬〜下旬（約2週間）
Shikoku Konpira Kabuki
Kanamaru-za (Old Konpira Grand Theatre), 1241 Otsu, Kotohira, Kagawa
Once a year, the oldest playhouse in Japan is used for what it was built for. Kotohira, in Kagawa, at the foot of the l