The 2022 Tahara Festival & Five Towns Fireworks will beld with reduced contents and partially without public attendance.

A Traditional Festival With Beautiful Yamahoko Parade Floats and Karakuri Mechanized Puppets

The karakuri puppet dolls riding on top of yamahoko parade floats are a well-known feature of the Tahara Festival, which began in the Edo period.
Three yamahoko floats and elegantly decorated mikoshi shrine floats go on parade, while at night children seated atop the yamahoko floats wave to the crowd.
Five Towns Fireworks mark the grand finale. Featuring tezutsu hand-held cannons and big ozutsu cannons, and ending with a great display of airborne rounds, this amazing fireworks festival is the largest in Atsumi Peninsula.
The best places to watch it are the Central Park along the Shio River (Shiokawa) or at the tezutsu demonstration venue, Hananoki Square.

Tahara Festival
◘ Scheduled:
• Shinto rituals at each shrine
• Mikoshi and floats at each neighborhood associations, and short performances at shrines, etc.
*: Resticted to local residents and related parties.

◘ Not held in 2022:
• Mikoshi parade
• Otsutsu Mikoshi parade
• Tezutsu fireworks at Hananoki Square

Gocho Joint Fireworks Festival
・Only parishioner fireworks dedication to be carried out
*: Resticted to locals residents and related parties.
*: Dedicated parking lot or spectator seats will not be available.