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Honen Festival (Oagata Jinja Shrine)

Inuyama-City Honen Festival (Oagata Jinja Shrine)

Date : 03/11/2018

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Oagata Shrine is famous for its monuments shaped after parts of the female body, particularly genitals. Come March, and the shrine celebrates the Honen Festival, a kind of "Fertility Festival" carried out in pray for abundant harvest, among other supplications. Gorgeous parades, amazing rituals and many sorts of festival food are among the event's attractions. The festival coincides with the "Shidare-ume" Weeping Plum Blossoms of the orchard located behind the shrine, a magnificent view in the season that earned the festival its alias of "Spring-Bringer Event of Owari"!

EVENT OVERVIEW

Date	: March 11th (Sunday), 2018
Place	: Oagata Shrine
Location	: 〒484-0834 3 Miyayama, Inuyama-City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Fee	: Free of charge

Parking	: Available (cap. 300 cars)
Restrooms	: Available
Phone number	: 0568-67-1017 (Oagata Shrine)
Road blocks (no vehicles allowed)	: From 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, vehicular traffic prohibited on Route 177 between Oagata Shrine and Yakushimae intersection.

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ACCESS

Access by public transport

20min eastwards walk from Gakuden Station of the Meitetsu Komaki Line (board from Kami-Iida Station; from Nagoya Station: [subway Higashiyama Line]-[Sakae Station]-[Subway Meijo Line]-[Heiandori Station]-[subway Kamiiida Line]).
Access by car

Approx. 25min (7.6km) northeastwards from Komaki I.C. of the Tomei Expressway / Meishin Expressway via routes 41, 158, 176, and 177.