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Owari Tsushima Autumn Festival

Tsushima-City Owari Tsushima Autumn Festival

Date : 09/30/2023, 10/01/2023

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Parade floats, mechanized puppets, and musical accompaniments

The Owari Tsushima Festival is a traditional autumn festival said to have begun approximately 300 years ago. Detailed mechanized puppets on beautiful parade floats bring a distinct color to the city of Tsushima.
Something you definitely need to see is the men at the front of the floats lifting their end in order to rotate the float as well as the devotional performances by skillfully crafted, ornate mechanized puppets. The age-old, traditional instruments of the musical accompaniments are another aspect which bring you back into the Japan of yesteryear.

Owari Tsushima Autumn Festival

Sat, Sep 30, 2023

• Children’s musical accompaniment performance
　Time: 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
　Place: Tsushima Jinja Shrine

• Tsushima float gathering
　Nanakiri floats
　　Gathering at Ichigamisha Shrine from around 4:00 pm
　　Lanterns lit at Ichigamisha Shrine from around 6:00 pm
　Mukojima floats
　　Gathering and ceremony at Imorisha Shrine from around 3:00 pm
　　Rotation at south gate of Tsushima Jinja Shrine from around 5:30 pm
　Imaichiba floats (festival dedication)
　　Gathering at Otsuchisha Shrine from around 2:00 pm

Owari Tsushima Autumn Festival

Sun, Oct 1, 2023

• Shimmori floats Mechanized puppet performances (canceled in rainy weather)
　Shimmori Branch Office from around 10:30 am / Okkan Jinja Shrine from around 2:30 pm / Hotoshi Jinja Shrine from 4:00 pm

• Karausu Town's Ishidori Festival float parade
　Karausu Jinja Shrine area in the morning

• Ishidori Festival float (northern float, central float, and southern float)
　Competition in front of Meitetsu Tsushima Station from around 12:40 am
　Ceremony in front of Tsushima Jinja Shrine's tower gate from around 2:30 pm

• Tsushima floats (Nanakiri floats, Mukoshima floats, and Imaichiba floats)
　Mechanized puppet and float rotation display in front of Meitetsu Tsushima Station from around 1:00 pm
　Mechanized puppet ceremony in front of Tsushima Jinja Shrine's tower gate from around 2:55 pm
　Comprehensive float rotation (some may not participate) at the Tenno-dori 1 Intersection from around 7:00 pm

EVENT OVERVIEW

Date	: Sat, Sep 30–Sun, Oct 1, 2023
Place	: Tsushima Jinja Shrine, Tsushima Station, and other locations
Location	: 〒496-0851 1 Shimmei-cho, Tsushima-shi, Aichi Notes: • The Access Map shows the location of Tsushima Jinja Shrine.

Parking	: Temporary parking lot available at Nishi Elementary School (12:00 pm–8:00 pm on Sun, Oct 1) Notes: • May become unavailable due to weather or other factors.
Restrooms	: Available
Phone number	: 0567-28-8051 (Tsushima City Tourist Association, available 10:00 am–5:00 pm on weekdays) 0567-55-9663 (Tsushima City Department of Industry, Industrial Development Division; available 8:30 am–5:15 pm on weekdays)

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.

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ACCESS

Access by public transport

15-min. walk west from Tsushima Station on the Meitetsu Tsushima Line / Meitetsu Bisai Line (from Nagoya Station, either take the Meitetsu Nagoya Line train bound for Inuyama/Gifu and change trains at Sukaguchi Station, or take either Kintetsu Nagoya Line or JR Kansai Main Line and change trains at Yatomi Station).
Access by car

• Approx. 15 min. from Yatomi Interchange on the Higashi-Meihan Expressway via National Route 155.
• Approx. 35 min. from Bisai Interchange on the Tokai-Hokuriku Expressway via Route 155.

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