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Chita-City Daikoji Temple's Luck-Bringer Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Doll Festival (Daikoji no Kaiun Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Taisai)

Date : 01/08/2024


  • Daikoji Temple's Luck-Bringer Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Doll Festival (Daikoji no Kaiun Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Taisai)
  • Daikoji Temple's Luck-Bringer Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Doll Festival (Daikoji no Kaiun Dainichi Fuku-Daruma Taisai)

An Impressive Festival Where Lots of Fuku-Daruma Dolls are Burned, Marking the Start of a New Year!

Widely known as "The Daruma Temple of Aichi," Daikoji Temple annually hosts a great festival beseeching a year of safety and health for the community's households. At this festival - that takes place on Japan's holiday of Coming of Age Day (Seijin-no-Hi) - the main attraction is the "Otakiage" event, during which piles and piles of spent Fuku-Daruma Dolls from the previous year are lit on fire and burned in enormous bonfires.

Daruma Dolls are fashioned after the image of Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk credited for creating Zen Buddhism in ancient China and known in Japan as Daruma. Originally sold with the eyeballs unpainted, the tradition is to offer a doll as a gift to someone who is setting objectives. The doll owner will then paint one of the eyes while asking Daruma for help in achieving it. The other eyeball is to be painted upon reaching of the goal, thus granting Daruma full eyesight.
Symbology, mysticism and legend surrounding Daruma dolls are quite interesting and well worth learning more about!

EVENT OVERVIEW

Date : January 9 (Monday - holiday), 2023
Holding time : 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
*: Otakiage from 1:00 PM
Place : Daikoji Temple
Location : 〒478-0022
52 Ochida, Daikoji, Chita-City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Fee : Free of charge
Parking : Temporary parking lot available
Restrooms : Available
Phone number : 0569-42-0702 (Daikoji Temple)

Note: This page may not be current due to update time differences between site databases.
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ACCESS

  • Access by public transport
    Access by public transport
    Either approx. 10 min. by taxi from Shin Maiko Station, or approx. 20 min. by taxi from Agui Station, both of the Meitetsu Tokoname Line (board from Meitetsu Nagoya Station).
  • Access by car
    Access by car
    Approx. 10 min. southwards from Nagaura I.C. of the Nishi-Chita Sangyo Bypass via routes 46, and 252, or;
    Approx. 15 min. westwards from Agui I.C. of the Chita Peninsula Toll Road (Chitahanto Road) via routes 46, 259, and 252.

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