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Toyohashi-City 31st Futagawa Post Town Honjin Festival (Daimyo Parade)

Date : 11/04/2024


An event colorfully portraying the Futagawa Post Town of yesteryear

The town of Futagawa in Toyohashi City was the 33rd of the 53 post town on the Old Tokaido Road, a major highway connecting Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. The townscape retains the aura of those days gone by, and for the Futagawa Post Town Honjin Festival, it acts as the stage for a daimyo (feudal lord) procession. This parade enacts the lord of Yoshida Castle (currently Toyohashi Castle), Matsudaira Nobuakira, as he would have come and gone through the former post town.
An antique market, Honjin Teahouse, Japanese taiko drum performance, and other events are held.

Event info

Departure Ceremony
Japanese taiko and other performances
• Time: From 12:00 pm
• Location: Futagawa Elementary School Athletic Grounds

Daimyo Parade
Members from Hattori Hanzo and the Ninjas (R) offer crowd-pleasing performances as participants in the Daimyo Parade. (This year's parade takes place between the Futagawa Police Box and the Komaya Shop.)
• Time: 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
• Location: From outside the Futagawa Police Box to the Komaya Shop

Acrobatic ladder performances
The Aichi Prefecture Tobi Civil Engineering Union sings traditional lumber workman labor songs and acrobatic ladder performances.
• Time: 12:30 pm–1:00 pm
• Location: Futagawa Police Box→Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum→outside of the Komaya Shop

Special stage events
1) Musical performance by Japanese Instruments and Folk Songs Society, 10:30 am–11:00 am / 2) Musical performance by the Futagawa Junior High School Brass Brand, 11:00 am–11:30 am / 3) Performance by Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd.'s Toyohashi City Sumimasu Artists, 11:30 am–12:00 pm / 4) Taisho koto harp performance by Harp Queens, 1:00 pm–1:45 pm / 5) Japanese taiko drum performance by Sakuragaoka Gakuen High School’s Taiko Drum Club, 1:45 pm–2:30 pm
• Time: 10:30 am–2:30 pm
• Location: Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum Parking Lot

Finale Ceremony
• Time: From 3:00 pm
• Location: Komaya Plaza (held at the Futagawa Elementary School Gymnasium should rainy weather occur)

EVENT OVERVIEW

Date : Mon, Nov 4 (make-up holiday), 2024
Place : Toyohashi City Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum

Note:
• Traffic restrictions apply to the Old Tokaido Road 11:00 am–4:00 pm between the Futagawa Hospital and the Futagawa Hachimansha Shrine.
Location : 65 Naka-machi, Futagawa-cho, Toyohashi-shi, Aichi
Parking : The Toyohashi City Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum Parking Lot is unavailable for use on the day of the festival. A 31st Futagawa Post Town Honjin Festival (Daimyo Parade) pamphlet with designated parking locations is available on the Toyohashi City Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum's site.
Phone number : 0532-41-8580 (Toyohashi City Futagawa Shuku Honjin Museum)

Note: This page may not be current due to update time differences between site databases.
Should accuracy be critical, please verify this information using a direct source, whenever possible.

ACCESS

  • Access by public transport
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    Approx. 10-min. walk from Futagawa Station on the JR Tokaido Main Line.

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