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Tokai-City Owari Yokosuka Festival
(Owari Yokosuka Matsuri)

Date : 09/23/2023, 09/24/2023


  • Owari Yokosuka Festival
  • Owari Yokosuka Festival

Honor and prestige at stake, flawlessly controlling beautiful parade floats

This event is held on the fourth Sunday and preceding Saturday in September to coincide with a regular festival at Atago Jinja Shrine. Men pull giant, approximately 5-ton parade floats around, course correcting and turning the floats using only their physical strength. Other spectacles include the musical accompaniments' clear musical tones, paper confetti thrown from atop the floats, and the spirited shouts of the men as they give their all to turn the colossal floats with sheer manpower. Then there is the biggest of the floats, which to look at is simply awe-inspiring. Watch with amazement at how deftly the floats are handled so as not to fall over or crash into one another—skill which means everything to the men as it imparts to them honor and prestige.

◆Parade float introduction◆
• Hon-machi float: Built in 1842 / Approx. 6.8 m high, approx. 2.5 m wide, approx. 5.7 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet of Chinese historian and scholar Sima Guang breaking a jar as in a famous myth
• Kita-machi float: Built in 1827 / Approx. 6.75 m high, approx. 2.5 m wide, approx. 5.65 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet doing a handstand on a maple and banging a drum
• Entsu float: Built in 1819 / Approx. 6.45 m high / approx. 2.5 m wide / approx. 5.5 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet of a child in traditional Chinese dress shooting a bow and arrow
• Hachiko float: Built in 1823 / Approx. 6.15 m tall / approx. 2.5 m wide / approx. 5.45 m deep / Features a mechanized puppet doing a handstand on another's shoulders and banging a drum
• Daimon float: Assumed to be built in 1794 / Approx. 6.05 m tall / approx. 2.35 m wide / approx. 5.2 m deep / Features a mechanized dancer puppet changing into shrine

Notes:
• Each float is designated a tangible folk cultural property of Tokai City.

EVENT OVERVIEW

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Date : Sat, Sep 23–Sun, Sep 24, 2023
Place : Around Yokosuka-machi in the city of Tokai and Atago Jinja Shrine
Location : 〒477-0036
23 Yonnowari, Yokosuka-machi, Tokai-shi, Aichi
Notes:
• The Access Map shows the location of Atago Jinja Shrine)
Parking : Available, some paid parking
Temporary parking lot: Motohama Park parking lot, etc.
Notes:
• Come by public transportation when possible as parking near the venue is limited.
Phone number : 0562-32-7808 (Yokosuka Festival Preservation Society / Yokosuka Community Hall)
info@yokosukamatsuri.com

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
    5-min. (550 m) walk north from Owari Yokosuka Station of the Meitetsu Tokoname Line (board from Meitetsu Nagoya Station).
  • Access by car
    Access by car
    Approx. 15 min. (4.2 km) west of Obu-Tokai Interchange on the Chitahanto Road via Route 155.
    Notes:
    • Traffic restrictions may occur in the area in Yokosuka-machi and the surrounding area due to the parade float procession.

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