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Inuyama-City Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)

Date : 04/06/2024, 04/07/2024


  • Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)
  • Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)
  • Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)
  • Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)
  • Inuyama Festival (Inuyama Matsuri)

Inuyama Festival Float Event

The event that has been handed down to the present began in 1635 at the encouragement of Naruse Hayato no Sho Masatora, a chief retainer of the Owari Tokugawa family and lord of Inuyama Castle, as a festival of Haritsuna Shrine, where the local guardian deity is worshiped. One of the 33 Japanese festivals added as joint entry “Yama, Hoko, Yatai, Float Festivals in Japan” to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage for Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on November 30th, 2016.

Highlights

Inuyama Festival

Thirteen splendid floats, all of them with three tiers, give karakuri doll performances that have been passed down since the Edo period, to the sound of flute and taiko music. At night, all the floats weave their way through avenues of cherry blossom trees in full bloom as they parade through the castle town, each of them bearing 365 glowing lanterns. The magnificent sight is truly like something out of a ukiyo-e woodblock print.

EVENT OVERVIEW

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Date : April 3 (Saturday) and 4 (Sunday), 2021
Holding time : 9:00 AM to 9:30 PM
Place : Around the Inuyama Old Castle Town area
Location : 〒484-0081
14 Fujimi-cho, Inuyama, Inuyama-City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
(Inuyama Tourist Information Center)
Fee : Free
Restrooms : Available
Phone number : 0568-61-6000 (Inuyama Tourist Information Center)
Holidays : Cancelled in the case of inclement weather.
Notes about parking facilities : Please use public transport as best as possible to help alleviate traffic jams.

Inuyama Festival is a highly popular event that attracts huge crowds of visitors. The parking lot usually fills up quite early, and it is predicted that the surrounding roads will be jammed with cars waiting for a parking spot. Visitors may not be able to find a parking spot even after waiting for several hours. Therefore, visitors are kindly requested to use public transportation as best as possible. The festival venue is right outside the west exit of Meitetsu Inuyama Station.
For visitors moving by car : Traffic will be restricted on roads around the venue.
Check for the Road Restrictions Map PDF

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
    Access by public transport
    15 min. westwards walk from either Inuyama-Yuen Station or Inuyama Station, both of the Meitetsu Inuyama Line (board the train bound for Inuyama from Meitetsu Nagoya Station).
  • Access by car
    Access by car
    Please use public transport as best as possible in order to help alleviate traffic jams.

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